Shutting Down
Please note that we haven’t actively posted on this site since last year. We are taking a sabbatical indefinitely. During this time, please do not expect comments to be approved and responded to....
View ArticleBad Timing, Bad Decision
As many may or may not yet be aware, the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America has made a recent move that speaks volumes in the current political climate and might suggest their...
View ArticleUpcoming Fordham Conference on Orthodox/Catholic Encounters
Those interested in such things, and especially interested in how tradition, secularism, and fundamentalism are features of this, should check out the upcoming Patterson Triennial Conference at Fordham...
View ArticleApologizing—It Does a Body Good
Several years ago the dairy industry launched an ad campaign with the slogan: Milk, it does the body good. There are certainly health benefits to drinking a glass of milk, especially after a workout,...
View ArticleReframing How We Think of the Priesthood in the 21st Century
The priesthood . . . it’s a significant office whether one is Catholic (Eastern or Roman) or Orthodox (Eastern or Oriental). Those ordained to the office are typically called “father,” referencing...
View ArticleChristmas: An Honest Look at its Origins
As we enter into December, approximately 2 billion people will prepare to celebrate Christmas, a holiday dedicated to the birth of Jesus. We will also enter into a time of internet debate over the...
View ArticleForthcoming Book on Eastern Orthodox “Doctrine of Scripture”
Those of you interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, the Bible, biblical scholarship, and/or how all these connect, may be interested to learn of a forthcoming book from Fortress Press, What is the Bible? The...
View ArticleTheology in the Trenches
I haven’t been on here in a long while, but I wanted to pass along a different kind of blog that might just open a different kind of perspective–a more “practical theology” perspective:...
View ArticleThe Relative Silence Here
This is just a very quick post to apologize to readers for the long delays between posts and to inform readers that I am taking an indefinite leave of absence from blogging. Recently, I became a full...
View ArticleNewsweek and (Anti-)Religious Ignorance
Recently, an article in Newsweek has been making some waves. Whether intended to be “controversial” or “myth debunking,” the reality is it was ignorance revealing (of the author and Newsweek itself)....
View ArticleOrthodox Converts Book Review
I hope to get into the book Orthodox Constructions soon. For now, though, I thought I’d share a recent review of Turning to Tradition. If you haven’t yet read this book, give this review a read and...
View ArticleMinimum Reading List Post 2: Review of Orthodox Constructions of the West
For this reading list series I turn my attention to a book that all Orthodox should read. Just as it should be required by Orthodox seminarians and clergy to be informed about Anselm (not the...
View ArticleThe Minimum Reading List, Post 1: Anselm of Canterbury
Adam DeVille, one of our bloggers here at Red River Orthodoxy, maintains a most esteemed site devoted to books on Eastern Christianities called http://easternchristianbooks.blogspot.com/. His site is...
View ArticleClarifying Caricatures
It seems my last post has caused quite a stir, from some internet chatter pro and con to an active comment thread to at least one email thread wherein it became open season on me for a while. In light...
View ArticleCombatting Orthodox Caricatures of Western Theology
A recent post by Fr. Stephen Freeman reminded me of just how common it is for we Orthodox to paint with a broad, reductionistic brush when it comes to the West. He opened his post on “An Illegal...
View ArticleOrthodoxy in America: Will Increasing Political Conservatism Lead to...
Claude S. Fischer recently wrote an intriguing sociology of religion article for the Boston Review. The data is data that’s been well known for some time. The “spiritual but not religious” or the...
View ArticleBook Reviews
In the recent months, book reviews have come out on my book Turning to Tradition and I think I have mentioned most of them here on the blog. One I haven’t mentioned yet is this review by Dr. Amy...
View ArticleMorality without God?
I return, finally, to my exchange with humanist Jon Lindgren, emeritus professor of economics for NDSU and former mayor of Fargo. The delay was entirely my own fault. These last several months have...
View ArticleEastern Orthodox Advice on a Roman Catholic Problem: Divorce, Annulment, and...
Recent discussions and debates and political brokering in Rome has centered on relational ethics, including the question of divorce. Although most non-Roman Catholics probably look to papal...
View ArticlePrimitivism and Restorationism as Orthodoxy’s Siren Call
In my book Turning to Tradition, I argued that restorationism lied at the heart of Orthodox convert movements throughout the twentieth century in America. Interestingly, that same impulse toward a...
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