ICYMI, there was a huge update to the Catena Bible app. We’re talking huuuuge. Check it!
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Sweat, tears, & books (not necessarily in that order) • Music, memoir, & pilgrimage • Christian monastic lit., Origenian tradition, Maximus Confessor, & the Philokalia • I am a macrocosm scottdhendricks.wordpress.com orthodoxphilokalia.wordpress.com
Substack’s alright, I guess — except there’s like a total of three, maybe four, accounts that I’d be willing to pay a small subscription to. The rest are just social media mutuals slightly more prolific than me, who may need the money but so do I.
Okay nerds, my sister asked a good question: “Do you know if there are any universalist theologians who would argue against the institution of churches and church attendance?” Do we?
I suspect that the online gambling commercial aimed at millennials with Matthew Broderick that mentions the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is not exactly targeting the extremely online Orthobros, but it sure as hell feels like it. Weird. And may vice advertised be damned.
We are saved to become paradise to all those around us, including our worst enemy. — St. Simeon the New Theologian
"I was imprisoned but I am not sorry that I was imprisoned. [That] was the blessing because I became a monk in prison. I found God in prison."
Last night I posted and deleted that Kevin M. Clarke will have published English translations of 3 major works of Maximus the Confessor in 2026. I was mistaken. He has 3 books on Maximus slated for 2026, but only 2 of them are works in translation. The other is an edited collection of essays.
Imagine with me, for a moment, if you will, that you are passing the time of the year of the Lord 2026, and you just so happen to notice that many volumes of translations of Maximus the Confessor are being published in this year.
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#Academic friends: I feel like I should know this already, but suggestions for reading theory on the idea of cultural "imagination"?
Please be advised that this is my favorite version of the Nunc Dimittis! Hands down.
BCP Minus Context@bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 4d agoFor these eyes of mine have seen the Savior
Realizing I now own a total of FOUR English translations of _On Love_ by Maximus the Confessor is just the shot in the arm I needed for having two days off this weekend. Sherwood - ACW/Newman (1955), Palmer/Sherrard/Ware - Faber (1981), Berthold - CWS/Paulist (1985), Luis Joshua Sales - SVS (2026)
It was hard to pick some and leave out others. Honorable Mention: • Justin Martyr, First Apology • The Catechetical Lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem • On First Principles by Origen, translated by Behr • The Life of Anthony
Today is a "listen to as much of the Αναστασιματαριον as is humanly possible within the limits of reasonableness" kind of day. Or maybe I'll burn out halfway through Ηχος Β. In any case, may it be blessed!
I just finished reading _That_All_Shall_Be_Saved_ by David Bentley Hart (on audiobook). And, hoo boy, that was a blessed doozy of a book.
So…the hyper-alienation of the worker. What is most insidious is that beyond separating humans from good creation and good cultivation, this newer form isolates us from our very selves as we upload identity to hyper-reality and forget who we are when the audience is not on.
Take it from me: these are the best index cards on the market. They come in graph, ruled, and blank, and in different colors. They are archival quality, as well. You can get them at remarkable prices from The Goulet Pen Co. Amazon’s prices are outrageous.
I tend to think the arguments against equality are, for the most part, poor. For example, one person says, “People ought to be treated fairly.” A particularly American argument against such a statement is, “You’re a Marxist. Marxism bad.”
For #BannedBooksWeek I'm reading _That All Shall Be Saved: heaven, hell, & universal salvation_ by David Bentley Hart (2021) on AudioBook on #hoopladigital though my local library.
. . . a painted icon of Sf. Dumitru Stǎniloae, but it's of him in his study, and the K.D. of Barth is pictured behind him. Just my imagination. But it would be funny if Barth made his way into an Eastern Orthodox icon!
ngl, I’m low-key kind of mad I’m LITERALLY JUST LAST NIGHT finding out it’s the 800th anniversary of St Francis’ (Assisi) death. I guess my bad for not knowing the year he died. He’s one of my favorite saints
My own translation of the Canticle of Brother Sun, from Latin. From about half a lifetime ago. orthodoxphilokalia.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/c...
Canticle of brother sun
Most-high, all-powerful, good Lord, yours are the praises, glory, honor and every blessing, to you alone are they to be referred, and no human is worthy to name you. Be praised, Lord my God, becaus…
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The Pappas Patristic Institute just casually suggested people celebrate Dionysius the Areopagite tomorrow by reading all 58,807 words of the Dionysian Corpus in one sitting. Such a cool idea, and you love to see it!
Do I stay up for another hour so I can listen to the Rubber Soul remix?
Do you want to be connected? To people and God? Yes. To the internet? No.
It’s 2026 and Im finally making my way through That All Shall Be Saved by D.B. Hart. Y’all. Friends. God is good. Full stop.
There is much about automation to be regretted, but one thing that comes up rather frequently, is the automatic 'phenomenon' of my computer and accounts talking to me/us. My computer just wished me "Happy Birthday!" a day in advance. Oh well, let those things that do not exist perish utterly.
It is monstrous for one to live in luxury while many are in want. — St. Clement of Alexandria