Eclectic Orthodoxy

Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion by Fr Aidan “Fedora” Kimel

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By John Stamps

In Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, the opera’s climax arrives when Count Almaviva—who has misunderstood everything happening around him—finally discovers that the woman he mistook for Susanna is actually his wife. He falls to his knees and begs her forgiveness, singing the words the audience has been longing to hear: “Contessa, perdo...

My beautiful wife Christine is a quiet mystic. She would not describe herself that way, yet on occasion she has been given visions—a vision of Christ/Aslan after the loss of our daughter through miscarriage and a vision of angels during the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. Two years ago she shared her story at a Hoot & Holler gathering here in Roanoke and more r...

Jonathan McCormack, David Bentley Hart, and Whether Anyone Remains

Mummy portraits from Roman Egypt, 1st–3rd century. Painted from life, buried with the dead. Each one someone.

Everything turns on a simple question: when we lose ourselves, in prayer or in love or finally in death, is anyone still there? If not, then love was only eve...