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Icon, Not Object: (opens the original)
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An Orthodox Word to Men on LustI want to talk to men about lust, and I want to do it without the usual script.The usual script goes one of two ways. Either it’s shame — you’re disgusting, you’re weak, real men don’t struggle with this — which drives the thing underground and keeps it alive there. Or it’s therapeutic minimization — it’s just a habit, just dopamine, manage your triggers, no different from doomscrolling. Both miss what’s actually happening. The Fathers of the Church were more hones
Why We Fast (opens the original)
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Something happens when you keep the fast.Not the thing people expect. You don’t get holier because you skipped the cheese. What happens is smaller and stranger than that. You find out you can say no. And once you know you can say no to a piece of meat on a Wednesday, you start to suspect you can say no to the anger you’ve been nursing, the lust you’ve been excusing, the resentment you’ve been feeding for eleven years. That’s the point. The fast is not a diet. It’s a training ground for a will th
Hades, Paradise, Gehenna, and the Kingdom: (opens the original)
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Ask most Americans what happens when you die, and you’ll get some version of this: you die, you go up, or you go down, and the down part is a burning place God built to punish you in.That picture didn’t come from the Fathers. For most people it didn’t even come from their own church’s teaching. It came from a tract at a gas station, a youth group lock-in, a sermon about a spider held over a flame, a film shown in a church basement where a man dies suddenly and wakes up screaming among the worms
Who Gave You the Right to Do That? (opens the original)
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A post crossed my feed this week showing a man performing deliverance ministry in a client’s living room, filmed for YouTube. In the videos, he’s choking women. He’s dipping their dirty fingers into a glass of water, blessing it, and calling it holy. Calling the whole thing spiritual warfare. And underneath it all — not in the clips, but in his own caption — this line:“Never forget who the authority really comes from... If Christians today want to go by the book of Jesus Christ of yesterday, the
“Religion Destroyed My Life” (opens the original)
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I’ve heard it more times than I can count. In the paranormal world I used to live in, in the counseling room, and now on the other side of the altar as a Reader in the Orthodox Church. Somebody finds out what I do now and within five minutes they’re telling me, sometimes with tears and sometimes with a kind of practiced flatness that tells you they’ve said it a hundred times before, that religion destroyed their life.And here’s the thing I want to say plainly before I say anything else: they alm
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