Phil Dorroll
@phildorroll.bsky.social
Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
Spotify once again epitomizes my life
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Spotify once again epitomizes my life
Yes, I read theory
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Yes, I read theory
Finished all 12 hours of this; becoming a new kind of guy [Orthodox Christian Revolutionary War Guy]
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Finished all 12 hours of this; becoming a new kind of guy [Orthodox Christian Revolutionary War Guy]
As a Paine devotee, this makes my day tbh
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
As a Paine devotee, this makes my day tbh
I Iove that street; Ben Rahim plus the wonderful Sophienkirche
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I Iove that street; Ben Rahim plus the wonderful Sophienkirche
From “The Function and Place of Conscience, in Relation to the Laws of Men: A Sermon for the Times.”
Incredible:
Incredible:
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
From “The Function and Place of Conscience, in Relation to the Laws of Men: A Sermon for the Times.”
Incredible:
Incredible:
“This we need to continually remember: that nothing in the world without is so sacred as the eternal law of God; of the world within nothing is more venerable than our own conscience, the permanent, everlasting oracle of God.”
-Theodore Parker, Unitarian minister and abolitionist (1850)
-Theodore Parker, Unitarian minister and abolitionist (1850)
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“This we need to continually remember: that nothing in the world without is so sacred as the eternal law of God; of the world within nothing is more venerable than our own conscience, the permanent, everlasting oracle of God.”
-Theodore Parker, Unitarian minister and abolitionist (1850)
-Theodore Parker, Unitarian minister and abolitionist (1850)
Till next time AAR
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Till next time AAR
Qur’an 107, one of my favorite passages in any text
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Qur’an 107, one of my favorite passages in any text
This one found me actually; I was on my way back from visiting this guy
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This one found me actually; I was on my way back from visiting this guy
Cop slide @aarweb.bsky.social session when
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Cop slide @aarweb.bsky.social session when
Amazing; just like his book “Live Not by Lies, which posits the existence of an emerging secularist totalitarian government in the US that, interestingly, does not exist
November 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Amazing; just like his book “Live Not by Lies, which posits the existence of an emerging secularist totalitarian government in the US that, interestingly, does not exist
Been done before, unfortunately (from 2010)
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Been done before, unfortunately (from 2010)
“love is God’s motive; love forgets no single individual; love goes all lengths of sacrifice; love in the universe works on through all failures to its victorious issue.”
-Charles Gore
-Charles Gore
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
“love is God’s motive; love forgets no single individual; love goes all lengths of sacrifice; love in the universe works on through all failures to its victorious issue.”
-Charles Gore
-Charles Gore
I visited this church last spring; an incredibly beautiful place
November 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I visited this church last spring; an incredibly beautiful place
Absolutely thrilled to be teaching my online course on Orthodox Christian-Muslim Relations again for Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in the spring
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Absolutely thrilled to be teaching my online course on Orthodox Christian-Muslim Relations again for Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in the spring
#WebinAAR | This Friday at 12 PM, the Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit is hosting an AAR webinar on "Religion and Conflict: Case Studies from Ukraine." Register here for free: my.aarweb.org/event-inform...
@aarweb.bsky.social @riccardiswartz.bsky.social
@aarweb.bsky.social @riccardiswartz.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
#WebinAAR | This Friday at 12 PM, the Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit is hosting an AAR webinar on "Religion and Conflict: Case Studies from Ukraine." Register here for free: my.aarweb.org/event-inform...
@aarweb.bsky.social @riccardiswartz.bsky.social
@aarweb.bsky.social @riccardiswartz.bsky.social
How about “entering the gray zone”
(as in the below)
(as in the below)
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
How about “entering the gray zone”
(as in the below)
(as in the below)
"Just as fire burns away wood, so likewise the fear of God burns away tyranny and the passions."
A spiritual saying recorded in the oldest surviving Christian manuscript in Arabic (Sinai Ar. 154, ca. 755; ed. Margaret Dunlop Gibson)
A spiritual saying recorded in the oldest surviving Christian manuscript in Arabic (Sinai Ar. 154, ca. 755; ed. Margaret Dunlop Gibson)
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Just as fire burns away wood, so likewise the fear of God burns away tyranny and the passions."
A spiritual saying recorded in the oldest surviving Christian manuscript in Arabic (Sinai Ar. 154, ca. 755; ed. Margaret Dunlop Gibson)
A spiritual saying recorded in the oldest surviving Christian manuscript in Arabic (Sinai Ar. 154, ca. 755; ed. Margaret Dunlop Gibson)
My office and classrooms are in this building tho so I am also in an ivory tower
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My office and classrooms are in this building tho so I am also in an ivory tower
Post you from a different era.
Ca. 2002, around 17 (as an altar boy; the local paper did a story about our church)
Ca. 2002, around 17 (as an altar boy; the local paper did a story about our church)
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Post you from a different era.
Ca. 2002, around 17 (as an altar boy; the local paper did a story about our church)
Ca. 2002, around 17 (as an altar boy; the local paper did a story about our church)