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I began to feel I was being . . . hunted? I wanted it to stop; at least, I thought I did. I had no interest in Christianity. there was no escape. Like C. S. Lewis, I could not ignore “the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet.” How much later was it that I was finally pinned down? I don’t remember. In Orthodoxy I had found the answers I had sought, in the one place I never thought to look. I found a Christianity that had retained its ancient heart—a faith with living saints and a central ritual of deep and inexplicable power. I found a faith that, unlike the one I had seen as a boy, was not a dusty moral template but a mystical path, an ancient and rooted thing, pointing to a world in which the divine is not absent but everywhere present, moving in the mountains and the waters. The story I had heard a thousand times turned out to be a story I had never heard at all.
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Father Arseny in "Two Steps to the Side" Sees the Rupture in the binding of Human to Humanity, the treatment of man, human life, as if it were target practice at the county fair. Does one not feel this for our children, treated like Guinea Pigs for lab experiments.
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