“The Power of the Powerless”
“Vaclav Havel, who died in 2011, preached what he called “antipolitical politics,” the essence of which he described as “living in truth.” His most famous and t...
Category: Reflection
My reflections on various topics
Emotivism & Barbarism
“In his book After Virtue, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre likened the present cultural moment to the fall of the Roman Empire in the West. He argued that the We...
On the whole…
“On the whole, benefits of high self-esteem accrue to the self while its costs are borne by others, who must deal with side effects like arrogance and con...
On Writing (like “On Praying”)…
“Nothing surely is so potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really ...
“We know when we will die…
We know when we will die – Photo Journal from the Easter Vespers We know when we will die. Unfortunately, this knowledge is lost in the labyrinth of our mind, d...
“Confusing Holiness with Niceness”
Should Christians Take The Benedict Option? An Interview with Rod Dreher
Confronting Evil . . .
Raw Footage of the confrontation
Cosmologies . . .
“Scientific and traditional cosmologies see reality from two completely different perspectives: 1) in terms of its practical and material implications, an...
A Partial Good . . .
A partial good can never be an ultimate good.
Talk with the Finnish Doctor of Theology Hannu Pöyhönen
Part 1. “Each One of Us Is Eternal” A Monastery in Finland Part 2: When Hatred Is Useful Part 3: ST. PAISIOS’S ROCKETS