HeyJaredThe Poorly Illumined
Blog dedicated to questions and thoughts related to Orthodoxy, politics, philosophy, and the spiritual life. Formerly "Trying to be Orthodox"
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An Update of Sorts (opens the original)
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Hello to my subscribers, both old and new.I know I have been on a hiatus of sorts as of late, but I wanted to say thank you to everyone who has been praying for me and still following along even as my writing has stopped. It still brings me joy seeing articles I wrote almost a year ago still being liked and shared to this day. Seriously, it means the world to me. To summarize why I have not been really writing as of late, I have been feeling a deep sense of what many have termed “convert burnout
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