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Saint Joseph The Hesychast

Saint Joseph was a Greek monk who achieved the heights of theosis on Mount Athos in the middle of the 20th century. His perfection of hesychasm (advanced interior prayer) caused many monastics to follow him, including Elder Ephraim, who would later establish over a dozen monasteries in the United States and Canada, one of which I visited. My Elder Joseph The Hesychast is an excellent biography of Saint Joseph as recollected by Elder Ephraim and his disciples.

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5 Reasons St. Louis Is The Best Big City In America

On the drive to St. Louis last fall, I expected the worst. I had already been to numerous large American cities the year before and experienced firsthand the rot and the degeneracy, which I chronicled in my book American Pilgrim. I was confident that St. Louis would be yet another name to add to the trash heap, especially since I had seen in the news that its local politics were veering leftward, but to my surprise, St. Louis is tied with Charlotte in North Carolina as the best American city I h...

The Seven Storey Mountain By Thomas Merton

After immersing myself in the world of Orthodox monasticism through my travels and reading, I became curious about how Catholics approached monasticism. For my introduction to this world I selected Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, an immensely popular work that chronicled his path to becoming a Trappist monk in the middle of the 20th century.

Merton’s experiences as a monk were different than what I have been exposed to in Orthodoxy. I found him to be overly sentimental and always loo...

Finding A Husband With God’s Help

The second edition of my book for women, Lady, has been released. It now contains a Prologue (shared below) intended for Christian women to aid them in their search for a suitable husband while avoiding secular behaviors and traps. Lady is available in eBook, paperback, and audiobook. Click here to learn more.

I originally wrote Lady for secular women who wanted to get married and were ready to make changes after failing to find a husband with casual dating. I was agnostic at the time and attemp...

Roosh Hour #64 – Baptism

I talk about leaving the Armenian Church, the sinister coronavirus vaccination campaign, the decline of medical doctors, disturbing transgender propaganda, angry signs from God, the latest pronouncements from evil henchman Klaus Schwab, and a lot more.

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You Attract Your Mirror Reflection

When it comes to relationships, we desire what we are not. We look to bond with someone of the opposite sex not to make a commitment that pleases God but to improve or satisfy our lives in a material way, but why would someone who has the positive qualities we lack want to bond with us? So we end up spending the bulk of our 20s and 30s searching in vain, racking up hundreds of hours on Tinder alongside innumerable dating failures that make us bitter, jaded, and fearful, decreasing our value as a...

Why I Left The Armenian Church For ROCOR

And about the eleventh hour [the landowner] went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day?’ They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will receive.’ —Matthew 20:6-7

Two years ago I returned to the Armenian Church, where I was baptized as a child by affusion, after living most of my adult life in the grip of sexual sin. On Holy Saturday of this year, May 1, I wa...

The Everlasting Man

After my first experience slogging through G.K. Chesterton’s work, I would have sworn not to voluntarily read another one of his books again, but I bought two of them at the same time and felt compelled to read the second one on my bookshelf, The Everlasting Man. As expected, the book is uneven: it can swing from incredible insight to utter bore in just a matter of half a page, but thankfully it does have many gems.

Slow miracles are still miracles

An event is not any more intrinsically intelli...

12 Things I Learned From Visiting Holy Trinity Monastery In New York

Last fall I visited Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York (a ROCOR monastery) for the second time in two years. On the first visit, I did not have a conversation with any monk and only attended the Divine Liturgy. This time around, I spent several hours in dialogue with a monk named Father Theodore and three seminarians. Below are twelve things I learned from the visit.

1. The search for truth is a process

Even when you receive a strong dose of God’s grace, you will not come to know e...

The Orthodox Survival Course By Father Seraphim Rose

…there is a God and there is the devil; and world history goes on between these two adversaries. And man… man’s heart is the field on which it is played out. —Father Seraphim Rose

The Orthodox Survival Course is a series of lectures by Father Seraphim Rose which you can obtain in video or text format. The title may be a misnomer because what it provides is a history of the world that explains our modern times. I liken this work as a companion to The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit by Catholic intell...