CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class Five Background Information on Spiritual Warfare: Where do demons come from? Revelation 12:9: And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. What […]
Screwtape Letters, Class 4 (chapters 9-12)
May 2, 2010 By
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class Four Another Real Case Study of Spiritual WarfareFrom The Acts of the Apostles (16:16-18) Now it happened, as we [Paul et al] went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. This girl followed […]
A Paralytic, the Woman at the Well, and More on an Orthodox Political Economy
May 2, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 2 May 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Homily on the Paralytic: Acts 9: 32 – 42; St. John 5 : 1 – 15 Introduction: Healing, not ReligionOur readings today give examples of Christ’s ministry to mankind (in the healing of the paralytic), and how this ministry has continued through […]
Screwtape Letters, Class 3 (chapters 5-8)
May 1, 2010 By
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class Three A Real Case Study of Spiritual WarfareFrom St. Athanasius “The Life of Antony”, Ch. 5. But the devil, who hates and envies what is good, could not endure to see such a resolution in a youth, but endeavoured to carry out against him what he had been wont […]
Screwtape Letters, Class 2 (chapters 1-4)
April 30, 2010 By
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class Two Review of Last Week: Who was C.S. Lewis? Why is fiction useful? What are three of his “main ideas”? WWII and the Battle of Britain: WWII began on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and others then declared war on Germany. British rationing began in […]
Screwtape Letters, Class 1 (Preface)
April 23, 2010 By
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class One Who is C.S. Lewis? Why do we read someone who isn’t Orthodox? Born in Belfast, Ireland (11/29/1898). Atheist at 15, become interested in mythology and the occult, especially the myths of Northern Europe. Got a scholarship to Oxford (1916), but volunteered in the British Army in 1917 (Light […]
Myrrhbearers, Love, Gay Marriage, Death, and Taxes
April 22, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 18 April 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast St. Mark 15:43-16:8 What the Myrrhbearers Teach Us about Love Introduction: today’s “Feast of Association”Today we celebrate a “Feast of Association”; a “Feast of Association” is that time when we celebrate those who were associated with a certain great Feast. In this […]
Pilgimages, Pascha, and an Orthodox Political Economy
March 22, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 21 March 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast An Exhortation to Prepare for Pascha The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, by Goefrey Chaucer Whan that Aprill, with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is […]
Back to Gadgets – my redneck hot tub
March 15, 2010 By
For the last few months, I have only been posting show notes. But I’ve been working (actually, mostly just “thinking”) on a new DIY project that fits the general “OrthoAnalytika” motif*** The DIY Crunchy Hot Tub I love hot tubs, and the idea of soaking in one while the New England cold and wet season […]
Logosmoi, Ladders, and the Ascetic Struggle
March 15, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 14 March 2010 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast Homily on the Sunday of St. John of the Ladder Do you want joy? Do you want peace? Do you want an end to anxiety? An end to despair? An end to boredom and loneliness? Introduction: The need to get serious You […]
