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A Psalm from the Abyss
A prayer from the midnight watch.
Jan 13 • Nicholas Smith
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Four Reasons Why We No Longer Know How to Read Scripture: A Path to Recovering the Vision of the Early Church
May 6, 2025 • Nicholas Smith
How The Christian East Can Save the West From Losing God
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Who Am I? according to St. Maximus the Confessor
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The Unknown God: How Orthodox Christians Actually View Other Faiths (or Should)
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Spiritual Pilgrim
Spiritual Pilgrim
This is the blog of a ridiculous man. Feel free to laugh and scoff but the idea here is that we can come here and share a little bit about what it means to be human and this blog suggests that being human is to be much more than we think it is.

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The Prick of Conscience
Our entrance into this world is hard to see as anything other than an assault on all our senses—senses that had, until then, been protected within the…
Jan 2 • Nicholas Smith
An Overexposed Negative
He who prays is a theologian and he who is a theologian is one who prays.
Dec 28, 2025 • Nicholas Smith
Who Am I? according to St. Maximus the Confessor
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On What It Means To Call Oneself a Christian
Belonging to a religion has long been framed under the auspices of our modern world as a matter of faith.
Dec 17, 2025 • Nicholas Smith
The Role of Phantasia: Navigating Imagination in Orthodox Spirituality and Modern Life
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Can You See Me? Notes from the Other Side of the Screen
A few days ago, I watched a teenage girl take twenty-seven versions of the same seven-second video.
Dec 5, 2025 • Nicholas Smith
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