PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Humility, Phronema, and Letting God Lead Us Beyond the Boundaries of Our Own Will “Have this mind among yourselves, which was also in Christ Jesus.” — Philippians 2:5 Truth is not an idea to be defended. Truth is a Person, and His name is Jesus Christ. He does not submit Himself to our categories, our polemics, or our carefully defended positions. He asks something far more threatening and far more healing: “Follow me.”  And to follow Him is not first to be correct, but to be

Why the Crisis Is Not Theological but Ascetical Abstract This reflection is written in response to “Why the Eastern Orthodox Church Needs the Western Rite: Moving Past Polemics, Restoring the Whole Tradition, and Fulfilling Our Mission in the West”  by the Very Rev. Fr. Patrick Cardine, originally published in The Basilian Journal  (Fall 2020). While affirming Fr. Cardine’s critique of anti-Western polemics within contemporary Orthodox discourse and his call to reclaim the We