The Adventures of Captain Peabody

During most of the history of the Church, important bishops in communion with each other would pray for one another during their liturgies. ...

  The Council of Nicaea: A Historical Explainer This year is, among other things, the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Ecumenica...

Death of the Son, Episode Two: In Via [This continues my earlier post beginning a serial-style detective story about the death of Constantin...

The Trinitarian Controversy as the Culmination of Ancient Platonism Recently, while engaged in scholarly work, I suddenly had a moment of re...

Orthodox Schism, Orthodox War  I have written a great deal on this blog before over the Orthodox Schism between Moscow and Constantinople, w...

 I haven't commented on the Orthodox Schism in quite a while, in part because the pandemic acted to an extent as a "pause button...

For those keeping track of the Orthodox Schism at home, the last few days saw the gathering (by Moscow, acting through Jerusalem) of a p...

For those keeping track of the Orthodox Schism at home, the Patriarch of Moscow has recently taken a number of steps that I find, frankly, ...

Alright, here's a brief explanation and a few comments on the Orthodox Schism, which I'll give in two sections: (1) the immediate c...