Music is a Form of Sorcery
Sorcery is using sounds to create an artificial reality. Everything today is sorcery, because everything today is artificial, and music plays a major role in speaking all that artifice into existence.
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Ukrainian Christians’ Struggle for Faith: Insights from the ‘People of Christ—Our Time’ Movie
People of Christ—Our Time is a film exploring the suffering of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, both clergy and faithful alike. According to the co-author, this film marks the beginning of a long battle for the survival of Orthodoxy as a culture.
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Book Review: Do Not Avenge Us – Testimonies about the Suffering of the Romanians Deported from Bessarabia to Siberia
Stories of historical Christian persecution teach many valuable lessons. Among the most important – no matter what you suffer, abandoning God is always your choice alone. If you do not forget God, He will not forget you.
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Mainstreaming the Demonic: Megami Tensei’s Un-Orthodox Programming
Science fiction and gaming mainstream the Global Elite’s vision for a world of demonic control via technology, Gnosticism, Mother Earth worship, and absolute human autonomy.
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The Persistence of Christlike Figures in Pop Culture
No matter how far the West drifts from Christianity, self-sacrificing heroes reminiscent of Christ continue to recur in our popular culture. Whether we recognize it explicitly or not, all of us are in need of a Savior.
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Book Review: A Pack of Cigarettes for the Mind
Brother Christos Hayward shows an understanding of the pressures and absurdity of modernity in a way few monastics even attempt. In particular he focuses on the cancer of technology and industrial society.
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God’s Children Shouldn’t be for Sale, But They Are
In the movie the Sound of Freedom, we are forced to confront the horrors of child sex trafficking. God’s children are being sold, while we avert our eyes.
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Collective Guilt: A Theology of the Jewish Culture as Continuous Deicide
Judaism is a religion and a related culture with tremendous influence in the West. All Americans, particularly Orthodox, should understand both better.
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Orthodox Movie Review – Man of God
The story of St. Nektarios is a breakthrough for Orthodox film. A must see. The film is a home run in every respect.
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