knowledge Archives — Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

Meeting the World: Taking the Gospel into our Times and our Places

November 17, 2011 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

“Foundations of the Orthodox Faith” series fully online

August 25, 2010 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

My Foundations of the Orthodox Faith series is now fully online at Ancient Faith Radio. This series represents an attempt at a sort of catechism—approaching the faith from four foundational angles: the revelation of God to man, authority in the spiritual life, worship, and morality. As with most of my work, I attempted to keep these talks fairly free of religious jargon, approaching the…

Internet Discourse and the Fear of Death

May 20, 2010 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

When I was studying Hamlet in college (which I did several times, being something of an addict for that story, despite my claims at The Tempest being my favorite of the Bard’s plays; I once took a class in which we spent three weeks on “Who’s there?”), if there is one thing I learned that the poor Dane learned too late, it was this:…

Samuel Johnson’s Foot

May 5, 2010 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

The following is an excerpt from a much longer talk I wrote but did not deliver, as I learned the day before the event that it was desired that I deliver a very different sort of lecture. The essential thrust of the talk, written for a mixed audience of both believers and unbelievers, was to prepare them to receive the Gospel, in this case,…