“I married a genius!”
A Crown of Life would never have been published had it not been for my dear wife, who fell asleep in the Lord last October. She loved the first draft of the book, completed in 2001, and kept after me … Continue reading
Category Archives: Life
A very enjoyable talk with Jay Dyer
Well worth listening to. We also talk about the deep roots of grievance-based, anarchical thinking in Western civilization and about my 2006 book Eight Ways to Run the Country. Trigger warning: Both very old and very new thinking here.
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Posted in Church, Life, State
Tagged deaconesses, Eight Ways, female priests, feminism, gender, male and female, Origen's Revenge, Orthodox Church, political theory, priestesses, women in the militar
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Comments Are Now Up for All to See
Some time ago, comments to my posts stopped appearing on the blog. I would get an email with the comment and could reply by email, but neither the comment nor my reply would show up on any page. I tried … Continue reading
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Fifty Years of Sexual Suicide
Last month, November 2023, saw the 50th anniversary of perhaps the most prophetic book of the past century: Sexual Suicide by George F. Gilder. Haven’t heard of it, have you? But you might have heard of George Gilder, who went … Continue reading
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Tagged Elaine Donnelly, feminism, George Gilder, Origen's Revenge, Phyllis Schlafly, Sexual Suicide
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Talking Gender with Dissident Mama
Shortly after my talk with Fr. Thomas Soroka on Ancient Faith Radio, I had the great pleasure of also talking about gender issues with Rebecca Dillingham for her blog, Dissident Mama. I mentioned our talk and linked to the podcast … Continue reading
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Tagged deaconesses, Dissident Mama, feminism, gender, male and female, Orthodox Church, Rebecca Dillingham
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Speaking of deaconesses, here I am on Ancient Faith—and more
Just a note to let you know about my podcast interview on Ancient Faith posted earlier this week and to remind you of the other helpful posts on deaconesses and on the much bigger issue of male and female, so … Continue reading
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Affirmative Action in the U.S. Military
Time was when the U.S. military felt the need to lie about using quotas to promote women and minorities. Now the Biden White House openly defends discriminating against men and non-minorities through the Pentagon’s various “Diversity Equity, Inclusion, Access (DEIA)” … Continue reading
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Tagged affirmative action, Army, discrimination, diversity, military, promotions, quotas
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Male and Female as Archic and Eucharistic Modes of Relation
Is not personalism merely a form of individualism—more humane (perhaps) than old-fashioned, rights- based individualism, but not humane enough to keep from reducing the human person to an inhuman abstraction stripped of the concrete particulars that define every human life, … Continue reading
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Tagged gender, male and female, Orthodox tradition, sex, sex and gender
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A Whale of a Waste
The Oscar-winning movie The Whale is a waste of $5.99, the two hours it takes to watch, and any time spent thinking about it afterwards—unless one can redeem the time and money by writing about it so others don’t make … Continue reading
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Just Released: Origen’s Revenge
Is the difference of male and female to be “completely shaken off” so that men and women are no longer men and women but merely human beings? The great seventh-century saint Maximus the Confessor said yes, but such thinking is … Continue reading
