The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

Most contemporary so called "anti-Sergianism" is really just Donatism. Yes I know that is a term over-used in our day (often slapped on anything party-x perceives as being "intolerant" or "too rigid"), but I think in this case it is rightly used, since the same error of the Donatists is being ...

The subject of miracles has been gone over by many philosophers, recent and ancient. I tend to side with that strain of philosophy which strictly speaking denies there is such a thing as "natural law", in the sense that there are autonomous "laws" somehow floating around in a more subtle reality ...

Some observations/thoughts on the calendar issue, largely to give the "other side" which otherwise is probably not going to get any representation in this forum.

1) The 19]1935 Declaration of Faith by the three founding Greek Old Calenar heirarchs, does not once mention ecumenism . Nor ...

On the Dogma of Redemption by Vladimir Moss

Seraphim

Justin,

When I found your post this morning, I was taken aback, quite surprised actually. As I've thought (and perhaps said) before, you and I are probably more similar than different.

If there has been a landing strip of grace in the whole Dormition Skete affair (at least for me, though I suspect ...

Miriam,

If there is one thing that this thread has taught me it is that it is far easier for us to practice hate, and much harder to practice love. It's also easier to excuse the hate with the writings of old. Yet before the writings of the fathers came into existance there were the words of ...

My understanding is that the Jewish religion is an apostate religion, which has defined itself largely on the basis of rejecting Christ - the rabbis tying up any "loose ends" which might have made a continuity between the Old and New Covenants obvious, and long have polluted the actual Torah with ...