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Exorcism, Faithfulness, Prayer and Fasting

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

The targeted demonic attacks we experience especially in this holy season are real, and we can spot them because of how they are so specifically designed to pull us away from participating in it. But these things do indeed come out by prayer and fasting.

Eating With (and Without) the Prodigal

February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

You will be in communion with something, even pigs, even demons. There is no neutral space. You have to eat.

Myth, Mythology, Fakelore and Whether Fairies Exist

January 25, 2021January 22, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Reading Tolkien as well as mythology and folklore can help us to re-enchant the world and thus engage more fully with the unseen world as it truly is.

Christian Media in a Cancel Culture World

January 14, 2021June 8, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

I refuse to participate in cancel culture of any sort. And I refuse to let it govern any of my advice or decisions. For me, the question is always whether what we are doing brings people to be faithful to Christ.

Myth and Fantasy at a Time Like This?!

January 11, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

How does the study of myth and legend contribute to mankind at a time like this? Are there are not starving people to feed, injustices to be set right, and cults of evil to be put down?

Going Home: On Becoming a Student Again

January 2, 2021 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

I hope that I will become a better Christian, better husband, better father, better priest, better communicator, better story-teller and better writer. Because in the end, everything is one. And de-fragmenting ourselves in Christ is one way of seeing what this life is about.

Breaking the Dome: Conversing Outside the Conventional

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Just because something is conventional doesn't mean that it's the whole of Orthodox Christianity. Let's break the false domes of our conventional universe of discourse and look up to see the very dome of heaven.

The Defeat of Amalek

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

The cosmic war between God and His enemies the fallen angels is going on all around us and even within us. And we have been given the Cross, the very Staff of God, as a weapon against the demons.