PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Where the Religious Self Dies and Christ Becomes Life “I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me.” Galatians 2:20 There was a time when I believed that if one went deeply enough into the self, if one endured the long work of analysis with honesty and courage, then something essential would be uncovered and healed. And to a certain extent, this is true. Analysis demands a kind of truthfulness that many never approach. It exposes the hidden movements of the heart. It reveals th

On the death of the ego and the obedience that reason cannot accept “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus… who humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” Philippians 2:5–8 ⸻ Freud was not entirely wrong. He saw that what most men call faith is a construction. A support. A defense against the terror of being alone in a universe that does not answer them. He saw that men create God in order to survive themselves. He saw tha