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St. Gregory of Nyssa says that we shouldn't be unwilling to forgo the literal-historical sense of parts of the Old Testament, and that a proper (moral-allegorical) reading can be true and inspired even if the historical events depicted never happened.

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Virtue is our main business in life. None of us can say with certainty what the next hour may bring, much less where we will be further in the future. But we can be certain we ought to meet whatever comes with courage, with honesty, with kindness; and that that if we can do that,

Today is one of those days where I have such a longing to be an academic, or at least to have time to write and to be able to dialogue with others, and the feeling of resentment is hard to resist….

Due to the uniformity, design, and color of the titles on the bookshelves in Goodnight Moon I am forced to assume that the bunny is getting a Greek & Latin education through the Loeb Classical Library.

I saw that Ancient Faith recently published a new book on Orthodox social/economic thought. Given that the author works (or worked) for the Acton Institute, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that I’ll…fundamentally disagree with it. Maybe I’ll try to get a review published

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"When the soul arrives at the perfection of the Spirit, perfectly cleansed from passion...then it is made all light, all eye, all spirit, all joy, all rest, all gladness, all love, all compassion, all goodness and loving-kindness." - St Macarius of Egypt

This is not an education

As an experiment, decided to test out a 20-minute 5k pace im the middle of my 3 mile run today (~6:30/mile). Only made it 0.33 miles 📷. A bit daunting, but nice to glimpse how fast I'll be in a few more months 📷

“The religious-philosophical podcast in memory of Vladimir Solovyov.” Tempting but maybe too niche….

If your hermeneutic makes St. Gregory a modernist, you might want to examine your hermeneutic.

I gather this has some resonances with figures from the phenomenological tradition, and it obviously fits in with a certain sort of Platonism, but its not clear to me how to develop it further.

Central to my philosophical-religious worldview is a sort of transcendental recognition: certain truths seem to me given - that goodness is fundamental to reality, that beauty discloses truth, that meaning (of any sort) cannot exist without love...I don't see how I could stop

Orthodox philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, on the deathnof his cat: “My beloved cat is dead. Some will say that this is not tragic in the least, because an animal has no personhood. For me, having endured a deep grief, this argument holds no weight for a variety of reasons. An

A few more with help of AI: - 405 deadlift and 4:05 marathon (probably doable within a couple months) - Bodyweight overhead press + run bw in km in a month - 315lb bench plus 3:15 marathon - 1000lb powerlifting total in a day plus 1000 minutes running in the same week (depending

I've been running 4 days a week for the past month and am not turning back. But I don't want to completely give up on strength training either. So I've decided, God willing, to try to be a "hybrid athlete" (i.e., someone who pursues goals in both strength and endurance). Since

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"You are unmoved, yet ever-moving, and You are wholly outside of creation, wholly in every creature. The whole of You fills all things, yet You are completely outside of everything, above all things, Master, above all beginning, above all essence, above the nature of nature....