Logos Rising by Dr. E. Michael Jones is one of the most anticipated books I’ve read. It offers a complete philosophy of history, chronicling the descent of the world-mind from…
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How To Live A Simple Life
On Living Simply by St. John Chrysostom is a little book that is packed with Christian wisdom. As an anti-materialist, St. John teaches the Christian to keep his eyes on…
On The Human Condition By Saint Basil The Great
What is Christianity? Likeness to God as far as is possible for human nature. —St. Basil the Great St Basil the Great, a saint in both the Orthodox and Catholic…
The Lack Of Miracles In Miracles
Like with G.K. Chesterton, I have hit my limit with C.S. Lewis. The latest book of his that I read, Miracles, continues on the pattern of obtuse, philosophically-styled writing that…
The Confessions Of Saint Augustine
[God, you] arouse [man] to take joy in praising you, for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. No other book…
A World Where You Will Love Your Servitude
I decided to reread Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World not long after reviewing his nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited. I wondered if our society has made “progress” on achieving…
The Orthodoxy Of Early Christian Writings
One thing I like about Orthodoxy is that it hasn’t strayed from the teachings of the Church Fathers. To verify this, I dived into Early Christians Writings, a compendium of…
Saint Joseph The Hesychast
Saint Joseph was a Greek monk who achieved the heights of theosis on Mount Athos in the middle of the 20th century. His perfection of hesychasm (advanced interior prayer) caused…
The Seven Storey Mountain By Thomas Merton
After immersing myself in the world of Orthodox monasticism through my travels and reading, I became curious about how Catholics approached monasticism. For my introduction to this world I selected…
The Everlasting Man
After my first experience slogging through G.K. Chesterton’s work, I would have sworn not to voluntarily read another one of his books again, but I bought two of them at…
The Orthodox Survival Course By Father Seraphim Rose
…there is a God and there is the devil; and world history goes on between these two adversaries. And man… man’s heart is the field on which it is played…
How To Live A Holy Life
I didn’t expect much from How To Live A Holy Life, a compact 150-page book written by Metropolitan Postnikov in 1856, but it turned out to be one of my…
The Struggle For Virtue
The Struggle For Virtue by Archbishop Averky of ROCOR came to me in two ways. First, by an online suggestion that was strong enough for me to order it. Second,…
The Desert Fathers
The Desert Fathers is a collection of ancient Christian wisdom compiled by monks. It’s primarily used to help other monastics but it can aid the lay Christian as well. Below…
The Brave New World Has Been Realized
Twenty-five years after his popular novel Brave New World was published, Aldous Huxley wrote the nonfiction work Brave New World Revisited to directly explain how society can be managed by…
