The blog of a Cuban who became an Eastern Orthodox priest.
I enjoy watching anime and reading manga, manhua, and manhwa. If one reads the description before one watches and reads, one can avoid inappropriate videos or publications. Actually, the same is true of any type of media that one may watch or read, … [Continue reading]
I have no problem with people who look back at their difficult childhood to realize that they have "turned out fine." Hindsight sometimes lets one see how even negative experiences can become positive formative parts of one's character. Steve Jobs, … [Continue reading]
One of the challenges in USA culture is that we are increasingly becoming a culture in which we, "casually [say] 'I'm gonna live my life the way I want to.'" However, the reality is that such a thought is impossible regardless of how commonly it is … [Continue reading]
All of us use shortcuts in our thinking. That is, we have a set of "truths" that we rely on to guide our day to day interactions with the world. Many of these truths are inherited from someone(s) else who has done the hard work of thinking it … [Continue reading]
Just a few days ago, Patriarch Kirill, of Moscow and All Russia, made the following comments on confession during a diocesan assembly. “It is unacceptable to make confession a means of inquiry or supervision, psychotherapy, overcoming conflicts … [Continue reading]
Antisemitism is beginning to spread around the world. No, I do not mean merely disagreeing with one or another of Israel's policies. Many of those disagreements are ideological in nature and need to be debated out in a serious manner between the … [Continue reading]
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.G.K. Chesterton Recently there was a kerfuffle because President Trump forgave several members of the Armed Forces who had been convicted … [Continue reading]
Until a man’s earthly life finishes its course, up to the very departure of the soul from the body, the struggle between sin and righteousness continues within him. However, high a spiritual and moral state one might achieve, a gradual or even … [Continue reading]
A Father Tries to Talk to His 16-Year-Old Daughter About Sex. How does a dad tell his daughter to prioritize her own pleasure? -- the title of a podcast on slate.com When I first saw the title of the podcast above, my first thought was that this … [Continue reading]
In a post from April 2019, found here, I commented the following: The development seen in the first few hundred years of the Church was a Holy Spirit guided development, just as the writing of the New Testament was. It is that Spirit-guided, but … [Continue reading]
