The Intelligence Handler’s Paradox
A personal testimony on fragmentation, Intelligence Tradecraft, and the search for wholeness. The cost of a career in Military Intelligence on the human soul, and how to find peace in Christ.
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Part XI of the Western Series: Heaven and Hell – The Divine Fire of God’s Love
Discover the Orthodox perspective on Heaven and Hell as the same Divine Fire of God’s Love—joy for the repentant, torment for the unrepentant. Contrasts Western legalism with patristic wisdom, wax/clay metaphor, and self-judgment through humility and repentance.
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Part X of the Western Series: Sacrifice and Redemption
Explore the Orthodox Christian perspective on sacrifice and redemption in this insightful article. Contrast Eastern views of expiation, recapitulation, and theosis with Western theories like propitiation, satisfaction, and penal substitution. Discover how Christ’s victory heals humanity, drawing on St. Irenaeus, St. Gregory the Theologian, and ancient Church teachings for true deification and union with God.
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Part VIII of the Western Series: The Great Schism and the Protestant Reformation
Explore Part VIII of the Western Series on Orthodox Reflections: An Orthodox perspective on the roots of the 1054 Great Schism, papal supremacy, and how these issues set the stage for the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther’s break with Rome, and the ongoing theological divide between Eastern Orthodoxy and Western Christianity.
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Part VI of the Western Series: Love, Faith, Works and Destiny
In a world of fragmented faith, Orthodoxy calls us to integrate love (agape), faith (pistis), and works (erga) into a single path of ascent—lest we build on sand, as warned in the Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders (Matthew 7:24-27).
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Part IV of the Western Series: The Remedy for Sin
What is sin? We must first understand that, before we can understand how we reconcile with God to grow in His likeness.
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Part III of the Western Series: Falling for the Fruit of Spiritual Adultery
What was the nature of man as created by God? Why did man fall, and why was the forbidden tree even in Eden? Why did sin bring death, and what is the true nature of temptation?
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Part II of the Western Series: True Love Makes Truly Human
Written for Western Christians, Part II examines the nature of Primordial (Pre-Fallen) Man and their true purpose as male and female through Image and Likeness.
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Astroturfing Tradition: Attempting to Invent a Southern Orthodoxy
In a consumerist age, when every niche group spawns its own “culture,” are we preserving authentic Orthodox Tradition? Or do movements such as the Philip Ludwell III Orthodox Fellowship threaten to make our drift away from authenticity even worse?
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The True Spirit of Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi is one of the few figures in the post-Orthodox West that bears even a slight resemblance to humanity’s first parents before the Fall, or to the many Orthodox saints throughout Church history who regained the ‘fragrance of Paradise’. Unfortunately, he is an unreliable spiritual guide.
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