Resources for those on the journey.
Fr. Hans Jacobse has been an Orthodox Christian priest for over thirty years. We discussed the masculinity crisis in our current culture and how Fr. Hans’ work is aimed at helping men find security in their masculine identity. We also spoke more generally about gender in the meaning crisis,...
By almost any measure, the breakdown of sexual morality in the Post-Christian West is nothing short of catastrophic. Although it began with the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, its intellectual antecedents were evident long before that. It seduces the uninformed and innocent through the false...
Orthodox priest, speaker, writer and long time friend of FTF joins Heers to talk about his ministry, the challenges men and women face in contemporary culture, and of course, the structure of reality. This one goes deep and you wont want to miss a second!
Recently Fr Hans had a fascinating conversation on sexuality with a community of non-Christian men. It is well worth watching.
According to St. Basil, God is the “only truly Existing.” Our own existence is a gift from God who is our Creator. None of us has “self-existing” life. We exist because God sustains us in existence – in Him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28).
Sin is the...
When I first began to research the topic of shame, I was surprised to find so little mention or use of the word in the Fathers. There are a few significant examples in which shame features largely, such as Book 4 in The Ladder. Nevertheless, the word seems somewhat scarce if you think about the...
by St Theophan the Recluse
Be strong. The enemy fights you. But this does not mean that you are sinful. Nor should his attacks shake you or confuse you. Temptations arise from the envy of the enemy and return to his head. Not only are you not responsible for it, but provided you struggle you will...
When the Lord, the Giver of Life, deigned to come and save mankind from death and the sickness of sin, He revealed Himself more fully, i.e., more fully than He was revealed in creation itself, by becoming of the same substance as the creation His own hands had made. He became man by taking on not...
The word chivalry has meant at different times a good many different things—from heavy cavalry to giving a woman a seat in a train. But if we want to understand chivalry as an ideal distinct from other ideals—if we want to isolate that particular conception of the man comme il faut...
Fr Michael Butler continues with his important podcast series on masculinity and orthodoxy.
“The glory of God is a man fully alive,” wrote St Irenaeus of Lyons.
What does St Irenaeus mean by this? It may not be what you think.
Audio length: 4:40 minutes
Fr Michael Butler continues with his important podcast series on masculinity and orthodoxy.
He discusses mature, immature and toxic masculinity. He offers some keen insights to the topic and raises serious questions we ought to consider in our pursuit of a becoming a mature...
