PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

The most dangerous thing happening in Western Christianity is not heresy or secularism. It is the quiet loss of the sense that Christianity is an ascetical way of being human. We have forgotten that the Gospel is not first of all something we believe but something that kills us and makes us new. When the ascetical life disappears the ego survives. And when the ego survives it uses religion to protect itself. Faith becomes moralism. Doctrine becomes ideology. The Church become