Saint Porphyrios
Book Review: Spiritual Eldership, Confession and Charisms in Wounded by Love
It is as though the flame of divine eros burning brightly within Dimas made Porphyrios's own heart and soul ignite.
Brian C. Harris
Brian used to work as a high school History teacher. He began his Master of Divinity degree in 2023 at the Sheptytsky Institute at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto.
Philokalia
The Heart's Reasons: Philokalic Revival from Athos to the Anglosphere
From a fall into neglect even among the monks of Mt. Athos, the texts of the Philokalia have enjoyed a remarkable success in the modern era.
The once and future tense
Why has the future tense come to displace the present in certain renditions of the Words of Institution? “This is my body which will be given up for you”? Weak tea, I say. Count me firmly in the camp of “This is my body which is given up (or, better,
How we should tread
There is no truth or value that imposes itself to which we ever manage to appeal in perfect abstraction from experiences and traditions given social life by human beings in just such and such a manner that they could not have foreseen or intended from the outset. A pure rational
A wise care of piety
We’re oddly ambivalent now about not whether a man is permitted to kill himself but the manner and place of it. Tobacco, no; euthanasia, yes. He must do it through rationalized institutions at the hands of an expert and not his own passions; out of sight unless he be