Christ is Risen!


Be Poets of the Logos!

Sarx (σαρξ) is the Greek word for "flesh". This is the blog of a Southern Man (sojourning in Buffalo, NY) attempting to follow God in the way of Jesus.

I am a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church in America (ROCIA). We are growing a Mission community here in Buffalo.

You can email me at "arkouda" at this domain.


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Disclaimer

I who have written this story, or rather this fable, give no credence to the various incidents related in it. For some things in it are the deceptions of demons, other poetic figments; some are probable, others improbable; while still others are intended for the delectation of foolish men. (Closing lines of the Táin Bó Cúalnge)

Essays

Longer posts are linked here. These are either too long to be blog posts or else were written as essays for other purposes.

General Essays

The Big Three
It’s starts out with the question of minimalism: what is the baseline without which Christianity makes no sense to me?

  1. Introduction

  2. Eucharist
  3. Incarnation
  4. Trinity
  5. Unwinding the Labyrinth

Extended Meditations
These are, mostly, posts from a Bible Study mailing list I did around the turn of the century before I journeyed in Orthodoxy. My newer ones (since leaving Orthodoxy) are over on my other blog.

Progressive? Essays
(An ongoing series of development: why I’m leaving Orthodoxy and coming to a different place in working out my salvation…)