Category: Secularism
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History, Post-Modernism, and Orthodoxy
A first glance – history would seem to be straightforward. As one wag put it, “It’s just one darned thing after another.” But history is, oddly, a rather modern thing. Histories have been written for a very long time. Pharaohs described their exploits and had them carved on stone steles. Herodotus recorded the Persian Wars.…
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Orthodoxy: Ancient Orthodoxy and the Postmodern World
When does the modern world begin – and what makes it modern? When I was a child in the 50’s, “modern” meant the world of home appliances and chrome-laden automobiles. The modern world beckoned us to a future with personal helicopters and visi-phones. Today the visi-phones are everywhere (and do things we never imagined). I’m…
Nathan, There’s a humility involved in discernment (whereas we generally think of it as being born of mastery). The lack…