I was tipped off to The Dark Mountain Project by bekkos. It is, as indeed he suggests, a sobering read. You can read the full “manifesto” here, but here is a preview: There is a fall coming. We live in an age in which familiar restraints are being kicked away, and foundations snatched from under [...]
13 Jun
Posted by Nathaniel McCallum as Personal
My good friend Ben wonders about dispassion. By dispassion we do not refer to sloth (acedia; lack of caring about the world due to laziness) which is one of Aquinas’ seven deadly sins (rightfully so), but we speak of apatheia. However, before we talk about dispassion, we must first talk about an Orthodox understanding of [...]