There are two ways to fly,
perhaps not
mutually exclusive.
One is to fall
and simply miss the ground,
though this is hard to do
deliberately.
The other is to forgive
which is embracing the ground
actually
and reversing the fall.
Better Conversations
- Lived Theology School
One of the most beautiful Orthodox ministries I know of -- this one in Toronto, on the streets. A great place to learn and live "theoria in praxis." - American Carpatho-Russian Diocese
My diocese, for which I am humbly thankful, and for which I always pray. - OrthodoxHistory.org
The truth. - Front Porch Republic
Raise the black flag at Leviathan. - Orthodox Christian morality today -- Commentary on moral issues
A superior resource of up-to-date and classic essays on morality and cultural issues, written from an Orthodox or conservative Christian perspective. - Orthodox Christian Information Center Home Page
Patristic and monastic resources, compiled along with some rather conservative views - Mythopoeic Society
A mix of mostly very good, and some very odd, views from the Inkling mindset - C. S. Lewis and the Inklings Resources Web Site
Just what it says, a nice clearinghouse of Inkling link-lings (I couldn't resist) - Second Spring
G. K. Chesterton Institute essays - The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology and Society
A superb journal web site, offering essays on ethical issues about technology and society - THE NEW CRITERION
The worthy successor of Eliot's old magazine, and a better source of arts and literature commentary cannot be found - FIRST THINGS
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus' superior journal
Montaignists
- The Ochlophobist
- Reading Notes
- Logismoi
- Ora et Labora
- Notes from a Common-place Book
- Orrologion
- Glory to God for All Things
- Axegrinder
- Forty Days in the Desert
- Frontier Orthodoxy
- Terrace Legendarium
The only way to get here. Consider this a singularity.
Open books
Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Ierotheos: The Science of Spiritual Medicine: Orthodox Psychotherapy in Action
Non-degenerate ecclesiology.John Milbank: Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (Political Profiles)
The idea of the secular is a product of a degenerate Church -- only one of many trenchant points in a brave and very blue book.Richard Wilbur: Collected Poems 1943-2004
One of the two best living poets. This one is American.Geoffrey Hill: Selected Poems
The other of the two best living poets. This one is English.William F. Lynch: Christ and Apollo: The Dimensions of the Literary Imagination
Why should Harry Potter die? Here's why.Owen Barfield: Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning (Wesleyan Paperback)
A single proof that poetry possesses a closer grasp of the world than does science. Well, real poetry, that is.Wendell Berry: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
Local economies, farming communities, family integrity, things agrarian and a kind of conservatism that has been raptured from the goblin world of politics.Richard M. Weaver: Ideas Have Consequences
Well, if we are all Odysseus (as Joyce seems to think), Weaver is certainly our Tiresias, whose dour but sagacious prophecies are marching up out of the surf every year.G. K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy
After reading this, who can deny that Orthodoxy is perilous, exciting, and downright intimidatingly grand to the benighted modernists? They can only run, surrender, or change the language.David Bentley Hart: The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
A critique of the postmodern project, and an apology for Beauty as a sign of the Divine.
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