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This is an author's library of free online books, centered on Orthodox books. Whether you want to read online novels, or short stories, or theology and homilies, or other literature, why not look around here?
The most recent addition here is Now.
There is also a list of recent additions to this site, sorted by date.Go to: Articles Assorted Creations Journals Miscellaneous Nonfiction Novels Orthodox Humor Orthodox Theology Satire Short Stories Socratic Dialogue Technology
You can find works from several Orthodox books here, but this section itself is really one big Orthodox book: an anthology of Orthodox mystical theology.
If you are looking for a place to start in these attempts to share the Orthodox Church's mystical theology, I suggest Silence: Organic Food for the Soul or Doxology.
You can find works from several Orthodox books here, but this section itself is really one big Orthodox book.
An akathist hymn celebrating St. Philaret the Merciful of Asia Minor, who was generous and merciful when he had much, and remained no less generous and merciful when he had little or nothing.
One thing I have learned as a Christian is what it means for God to look after you.
A work of mystical theology that looks at life as a great spiritual arena and training ground.
Ever hear a broken record talking about how Orthodoxy has always been a matter of creative fidelity and never a matter of parrot-like repetition?
Years back, I wrote a couple of pieces about origins questions. This is a more recent piece that addresses a very specific point about bringing Protestant fundamentalism into Orthodoxy, and it moves away from origins questions towards a more important issue.
Christ's crown of thorns has every relevance to our daily lives. Is it something we can have on our own terms?
We may have hospitals to hide death from our eyes, but all of us are moving towards death, even if we are in denial as a society. But there is another way; love is stronger than death.
Dissent: Lessons From Being an Orthodox Theology Student at a Catholic University
When I was studying at Fordham, the question of dissent loomed large. This is an attempt to respond to what was "in the air" at that school.
We have a lot of rights these days. Or at least we think we do, and the list of our rights is growing longer and longer.
What if I told you that people can get along well without thinking in terms of rights?
A poem to hymn the glory of God.
In Orthodoxy, there are seven sacraments, officially speaking; but there's a great deal of truth in saying that there is only one sacrament, or that there are a million of them. This is a look at one among many of the "other" sacraments.
Exotic Golden Ages and Restoring Harmony with Nature: Anatomy of a Passion
There is a perennial cry in some quarters to reclaim former glory. We thirst for the exotic, but not always in the best places. Do we appreciate what we have?
From Russia, with Love: A Spiritual Guide to Surviving Political and Economic Disaster
The Russian Orthodox Church has a lot of experience living with hard times. This piece talks about not only survival lessons but the spiritual beauty that can come in political and economic difficulties.
A meditation on God as the Game Changer who responds to sin, evil, pain, and death by changing the game.
A collection of quotes and reflections on God the Father in light of the spiritual fatherhood in Orthodox monasticism, in its relevance to us today in an economic depression.
I enjoyed Halloween for many years, but it looks different as I begin to understand Orthodoxy.
The Horn of Joy: A Meditation on Eternity and Time, Kairos and Chronos
A meditation on eternity and time.
A musing prayer about how to open the eyes of an alchemist.
Would you like to know how to survive an economic depression? People have survived every kind of disaster from recessions to economic collapses. The way they have survived may have had something to do with spirituality and faith. Do you want to dig deeper into how to survive a depression? You might find some answers here.
A celebration of the resplendent beauty of the natural world.
A meditation of mystical theology about kings and kingdoms, monarchs and monarchy.
An Orthodox artist looks at art as a variety of icon.
When we pray the Jesus Prayer, God uses it to build silence in our hearts and untangle those things we have knotted inside.
A poem about the labyrinth of technology and other things that we have woven into our society.
A meditation on the Maximum Christ we approach and maximum repentance as the true realization of God's maximum ambition for our lives.
A homily touching on a subject that doesn't get much treatment for how important it is.
A poem pouring forth mystical theology of eternity, time, and that precious moment we call 'now'.
A poem about closed fists, open hands, and true joy.
An open letter about an elephant in the room that Orthodox are painfully aware of and Catholics seem not to see at all.
Orthodoxy, Contraception, and Spin Doctoring: A Look at an Influential and Disturbing Article
This article was occasioned by the discovery of some of what programmers ironically call, buried treasure: in this case, current Orthodox positions on contraception often are built on top of the buried treasure. Maybe this buried treasure is, as the definition in the jargon file says, "something that needs to be dug up and removed."
God is like a pet owner who has only two rules.
This was a tool I made for myself after realizing I wasn't spending nearly enough time praying through the Psalms. This will pull up different psalms, and there is a a mobile-friendly version too.
"Religion and Science" Is Not Just Intelligent Design vs. Evolution
In my own experience, I started from a very scientific background; I have math awards and letters after my name in the sciences. And this science has been the start of a journey of repentance; it is a starting point of things that would find healing in Orthodoxy. And entering Orthodox theology, mystical theology, has meant unlearning not only the content of my knowing but what it is to know at all. Science is cut from the same cloth, or bedrock to, what it was that I needed healing from the Church as I was reconciled from the kind of background one gets in the sciences.
A meditation on spiritual discipline and silence as an organic diet for the soul reaching out to the whole person.
We are entranced by technology, and yearn for harmony with nature. But there is more to life than getting technology or taking walks in the woods.
Everything we say of God is inadequate. Yet this God who is far beyond anything we can say has a vicar on earth: not the Pope, but every person who crosses our path.
One of the moments is long ago. The other one can be right now.
What Makes Me Uneasy About Fr. Seraphim (Rose) and His Followers
A look at what exactly about Fr. Seraphim (Rose) and his followers could disturb an Orthodox Christian.
Among Christians, there's a debate about "headship". And those involved can miss something very important.
A poem that opens when a woman opens a priceless jar of perfume and a thief asks a question that was deeper than he knew: "Why this waste?"
(You might also be interested in material from other sections of this website, such as The Christmas Tales, Stephanos, and An Orthodox Looks at a Calvinist Looking at Orthodoxy.)
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