Scott D. Hendricks 📜🪶🪔
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Sweat, tears, & books • Music, memoir, & pilgrimage • Bible, early monasticism, Origenian tradition, Maximus the Confessor, Isaac the Syrian, & the Philokalia • I am a microcosm.
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I hate Winter.
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I hate Winter.
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Anyone who says ‘I love God’ and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother. — (1 Jn. 4:20-21)
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Anyone who says ‘I love God’ and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother. — (1 Jn. 4:20-21)
I can’t believe I’m just now learning about www.biblindex.org. What a great resource!
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December 8, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I can’t believe I’m just now learning about www.biblindex.org. What a great resource!
“Never forget God.”
Go to Church; say your prayers; remember God. — Fr. Thomas Hopko’s Mom
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 PM
“Never forget God.”
My annual replay and reshare of this video series by my buddy @happyguerilla.bsky.social. Three cheers for pointing out the patently mystical “meaning” of Christmas. :-)
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December 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
My annual replay and reshare of this video series by my buddy @happyguerilla.bsky.social. Three cheers for pointing out the patently mystical “meaning” of Christmas. :-)
Across the cold chains of the centuries, I feel the warmth of Thy breath, I feel Thy blood pulsing in my veins. Part of time has already gone, but now Thou art the present.
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Across the cold chains of the centuries, I feel the warmth of Thy breath, I feel Thy blood pulsing in my veins. Part of time has already gone, but now Thou art the present.
Why is it that on a Feast Day the whole of nature mysteriously smiles? Why is it that then a heavenly gladness fills our hearts; a gladness far beyond that of earth and the very air in church and in the altar becomes luminous?
December 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Why is it that on a Feast Day the whole of nature mysteriously smiles? Why is it that then a heavenly gladness fills our hearts; a gladness far beyond that of earth and the very air in church and in the altar becomes luminous?
Glory to Thee for calling me into being
Glory to Thee, showing me the beauty of the universe
Glory to Thee, spreading out before me heaven and earth
Like the pages in a book of eternal wisdom
Glory to Thee, showing me the beauty of the universe
Glory to Thee, spreading out before me heaven and earth
Like the pages in a book of eternal wisdom
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Glory to Thee for calling me into being
Glory to Thee, showing me the beauty of the universe
Glory to Thee, spreading out before me heaven and earth
Like the pages in a book of eternal wisdom
Glory to Thee, showing me the beauty of the universe
Glory to Thee, spreading out before me heaven and earth
Like the pages in a book of eternal wisdom
"Glory to You, on my knees I kiss the traces of your unseen hand."
December 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Glory to You, on my knees I kiss the traces of your unseen hand."
TFW you are too lazy to correct typos on each Wikipedia article relevant to your search.
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
TFW you are too lazy to correct typos on each Wikipedia article relevant to your search.
It may not be enough to say, "Read widely, read often, and read well," in an environment permeated with byte-sized, short-form media culture.
December 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It may not be enough to say, "Read widely, read often, and read well," in an environment permeated with byte-sized, short-form media culture.
In Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, The Enchanted Garden has the Thank You Tree, to which the citizens of the Neighborhood attach thank you notes. They are very enchanted by the Thank You Tree—it represents everything good and beautiful.
I think this is a great Eucharistic parable of Paradise.
I think this is a great Eucharistic parable of Paradise.
December 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
In Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, The Enchanted Garden has the Thank You Tree, to which the citizens of the Neighborhood attach thank you notes. They are very enchanted by the Thank You Tree—it represents everything good and beautiful.
I think this is a great Eucharistic parable of Paradise.
I think this is a great Eucharistic parable of Paradise.
"You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means."
December 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means."
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let me be clear- AI is plagiarism, pure and simple. it invents nothing. it simply assembles what already exists somewhere in a bastardizing fashion. lazy people use AI because they can't write or think for themselves. AI is the hallmark of the indolent and the playground of the ignorant.
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
let me be clear- AI is plagiarism, pure and simple. it invents nothing. it simply assembles what already exists somewhere in a bastardizing fashion. lazy people use AI because they can't write or think for themselves. AI is the hallmark of the indolent and the playground of the ignorant.
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Calling all #MastersDegree and #PhD students in subjects related to our press. Remember to submit your applications for our annual book grant before the end of the year. You could win $500-worth of our titles to help your studies. Full details here. www.gorgiaspress.com/gorgias-book... #grants
a cartoon of a boy reading a book surrounded by books .
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December 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Calling all #MastersDegree and #PhD students in subjects related to our press. Remember to submit your applications for our annual book grant before the end of the year. You could win $500-worth of our titles to help your studies. Full details here. www.gorgiaspress.com/gorgias-book... #grants
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Heard on a podcast, social media is founded on the bare minimum of what our actual value, namely our economic value to social media companies.
This makes it obvious that our social media understates who we are.
This makes it obvious that our social media understates who we are.
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Heard on a podcast, social media is founded on the bare minimum of what our actual value, namely our economic value to social media companies.
This makes it obvious that our social media understates who we are.
This makes it obvious that our social media understates who we are.
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The Hypothesis of the Gospels www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11...
The Hypothesis of the Gospels — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
This book draws attention to one important but neglected concept from Hellenistic literary criticism that readers—including Christians—used to organize, describe, and evaluate narrative traditions.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The Hypothesis of the Gospels www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11...
I still have a headache.
November 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I still have a headache.
1 Corinthians 1-4
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
1 Corinthians 1-4
I have a gnarly headache.
Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
November 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I have a gnarly headache.
Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
My aim in joining the Orthodox Church was never to separate myself from anyone else. In Orthodoxy I found the Communion of Saints and the Church tradition I agreed with most, a historic path to salvation I longed to imitate and participate in.
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
My aim in joining the Orthodox Church was never to separate myself from anyone else. In Orthodoxy I found the Communion of Saints and the Church tradition I agreed with most, a historic path to salvation I longed to imitate and participate in.
Thinking is important. It's why I like to write. Have we given up on thinking?
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Thinking is important. It's why I like to write. Have we given up on thinking?
In the words "artificial intelligence," "artificial" is the operative modifier.
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
In the words "artificial intelligence," "artificial" is the operative modifier.
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This plain American Air Force veteran who grew up where I live now, in Midwest USA, who used to go to the parish I attend years ago, was stationed to guard "a dump" — Wadi El Natrun. Just absolutely wild. And he thought to tell me about it. Unbelievable.
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This plain American Air Force veteran who grew up where I live now, in Midwest USA, who used to go to the parish I attend years ago, was stationed to guard "a dump" — Wadi El Natrun. Just absolutely wild. And he thought to tell me about it. Unbelievable.
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Like, I mean, one is led to think, what I wouldn't give to visit Wadi Natrun — modern day Scetis, one of the original areas where the desert fathers settled. I would even go there just to realize it's a dump. Like, what? Really? How holy that place must be!
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Like, I mean, one is led to think, what I wouldn't give to visit Wadi Natrun — modern day Scetis, one of the original areas where the desert fathers settled. I would even go there just to realize it's a dump. Like, what? Really? How holy that place must be!