Several points occur to me. I offer them in no particular order, and as always of course in full recognition that "God is more wise". 1. While a regular schedule, physical exercise, adequate sleep, and lectio divina are important—indeed essential—elements...

Did I ever see Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ, and if so did I not find it "unnecessarily disturbing"? Yes, I did, but no, I didn't; nor did it "grate against my Orthodox sensibilities", as you suggest. On the contrary, there seemed to me nothing...

As a Buddhist you're puzzled, you say, by the Orthodox doctrine of theosis. How can something that was formerly created now become increatus et increabile? Either it was so from the beginning, or it was not. And how can a man become omniscient, omnipresent, and...

I'm still hoping to add a new page to my weblog describing a few of the highlights of our trip to Mount Athos. God willing, that will happen in the next few weeks. In the meantime, one quick anecdote that may interest and amuse you. As coincidence or Providence would...

"When we realize our faults, we must never ask, 'What should I do?' because knowledge is itself the cure." I agree that this citation from Schuon is pertinent to your predicament. What he has in mind, by the way, is a passage from the Bhagavad Gîtâ: "There is no...

Regarding your challenge to the priest you've been talking to that he "show how the Incarnation and Trinity are as self-evident as suffering", I wonder whether this is a fair demand or whether on the contrary it's really an apples and oranges issue. Existentially,...

You are—you say—more at home in "doing" than in "intelligent conversation", and you ask whether you ought to be "aiming at improving [your] speech". I don't think this is something you should worry about at all. Obviously you and your husband have...

Thank you for your inquiry concerning my article "Colorless Light and Pure Air". You are right to suppose it has been controversial, to say the least. One of the most important criticisms was voiced in the pages of the journal Sophia some years ago by Dr Martin Lings...

You asked whether it is "recommended as part of the spiritual Way to seek guidance regarding all areas of one's life". The answer to this question is actually closely linked to what I said in a little post last week entitled "My Starets is Best for Me". For it depends...

Is it reasonable for someone with an esoteric vocation to consider the pastoral ministry? Of course. Is it reasonable for such a person to do so within the context of Protestantism, specifically the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America? There, I must confess, I am...