He opened the letter, somewhat gingerly, and unfolded the pristine paper. Gazing at the hand-written text, so unusual and almost unfamiliar in the digital age, he knew already that this would be a letter from a concerned Christian. The words were well meant, as ever they were from the person in question, but they did … Read More →
It had been an organised trip for priests still completing their initial years of training, or in their first, post-training parish. A group of us were sitting on the veranda of the retreat complex in which we were staying, and the topic turned to hymns we didn’t like (for whatever reasons, we didn’t like these … Read More →
It has been really tough this last month to focus on what to write about. There has been a period of incoherency through which it has been like trying to beam a radio signal across static. What’s been wrong? Circumstance The first thing to look at when you’re having a low period, an incoherent period, is … Read More →
Although this book was originally published back in 1980, the current edition of Fr. Seraphim Rose’s ‘The Soul After Death‘ seems highly relevant today. I picked up this book because it presents the response of the Orthodox Church to the phenomena of “out of body experiences”, “near-death experiences”, angels, demons and similar psychic experiences. For … Read More →
