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This written after the author was told that contraception was permitted by the Orthodox Church if you get a blessing and follow a few rules. Then, years later, the author found a very nasty surprise by an academic who happened to be a formal member of the Orthodox Church and made a revisionist account in a journal that was ecumenist enough to have "Ecumenical" in its title. To use programmer slang, the discovery was what is called "buried treasure", meaning it is something that "needs to be dug up and removed." The core article in this case is saved for posterity, in more ways than one! See on Amazon: write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Contraception, Orthodoxy, and Spin Doctoring: A Look at an Influential but Disturbing Article.
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It may be that many traditionally Orthodox lands profited from Fr. Seraphim's work, but he harms Western converts who get caught up with him and make him their polestar. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. (Warning: this book has received at least two five-star reviews that have gone live Amazon and then vanished without a trace. Please do not feel hurt, or offended, if you post a meaningful, positive review and it gets censored. If that happens and you email it to me, I may post it under the "editorial reviews" section.) Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: QUICK! What's Your Opinion About Chemistry?
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The basic Westeren academic understanding of "religion and science" is flawed. This book briefly looks at that debate, and suggested another dimension to explore: that of "technology and faith." See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: "Religion and Science" Is Not Just Intelligent Design vs. Evolution
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One Orthodox Dean said that he sang his way into Orthodoxy. The author has started with the Chronicles of Narnia and made a journey into Holy Orthodoxy. Here is some of the beauty he has seen along the way. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: A Pilgrimage from Narnia.
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The Luddite's Guide to Technology is one of the author's three major critiques (the other two are The Seraphinians: "Blessed Seraphim Rose" and His Axe-Wielding Western Converts and Orthodoxy and Contraception). See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Technonomicon: Technology, Nature, Ascesis.
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He created them male and female: it was an apocalyptic sign given to a saint that men would wear long hair and be indistinguishable from women. (Anyone up for the sexlessness called "androgyny"?) See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Knights and Ladies.
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The Best of Jonathan's Corner is the flagship not only of this site's works of theology, but all of its works. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Doxology.
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The truth of the matter can sometimes be very different from what we expect. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Money.
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Some people may be intimidated by a book that's an inch-and-a-half thick, especially if they are not familiar with the author. For interested parties, the slender volume of A small taste of Jonathan's Corner may provide a very gentle introduction. See on Amazon: Kindle $1, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: The Angelic Letters.
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Giftedness is a delicate subject: some people are every bit interested in the experiences at different levels, and some people finding bring the topic up to simply be offensive. This book is not meant as a gambit for popularity, but to be useful in an area where roadmaps are hard to find. See on Amazon: Paperback $20, Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: The Wagon, the Blackbird, and the Saab.
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See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: The Arena.
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We live in hard times that may be getting harder. But God works in hard times as well as easy ones. God reigns and cares in both, and some have said that his Providence is the more magnificent in hard times. You are invited to read the sample chapter. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: God the Spiritual Father.
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See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: The Most Politically Incorrect Sermon in History: A Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount.
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This written after the author was told that contraception was permitted by the Orthodox Church if you get a blessing and follow a few rules. Then, years later, the author found a very nasty surprise by an academic who happened to be considered part of the Orthodox Church and made a revisionist account in a journal that was ecumenist enough to have "Ecumenical" in its title. To use programmer slang, the discovery was what is called "buried treasure", meaning it is something that "needs to be dug up and removed." See on Amazon: write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Contraception, Orthodoxy, and Spin Doctoring: A Look at an Influential but Disturbing Article.
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A look at the divine glory through the practical lens of suffering and hardship. See on Amazon: hardcover $40, Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Silence: Organic Food for the Soul.
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There is an old Orthodox tradition of distilling the Fathers into short nuggets of wisdom. These works are meant to follow in their footsteps. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter:: The Best Things in Life Are Free.
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This is probably the most eclectic bundle of musings this site offers. Highlights include "Physics" and in particular "The Angelic Letters." See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: The Arena.
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Real and malevolent dragons exist: witness the red dragon with seven heads and ten horns in the Revelation of Jesus Christ. Part of fighting that dragon, if immediately a small part, is in polemics where one can both agree and disagree. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: An Orthodox Looks at a Calvinist Looking at Orthodoxy.
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See on Amazon: hardcover $40, Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: The Sign of the Grail)
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Protestants bring the concept of an origins position into Orthodoxy; but Orthodoxy is hardly the debate's native soil. This is a collection of individual posts to represent the issue (or non-issue) that science presents Ortodoxy on origins questions. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Creation and Holy Orthodoxy: Fundamentalism Is Not Enough.
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A look at what lens we may see nature with besides that provided by science. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Animals.
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A few hand-picked favorites in theology See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Exotic Golden Ages and Restoring Harmony with Nature: Anatomy of a Passion.
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This dystopian science fiction novel never mentions "Hell"; and speaks of "the Heavens", meaning space or the sky, but never "Heaven" where saints will reign with Christ... but it is on all counts a journey from Hell to Heaven. See on Amazon: hardcover $40, Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Yonder.
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These hymns and poems are really prayers. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Doxology.
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Perhaps the truest poems the author has written are really prayers, and the truest prayers the author has written are really poems. You are invited to read this collection. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Hymn to the Creator of Heaven and Earth.
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An assortment of reflections, musings, and essays touching on Christianity. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Friendly, Win-Win Negotiation: Interest-Based Negotiation and Getting to Yes)
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For children of all ages. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Janra Ball: The Headache.
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This book took Ambrose Bierce's title The Devil's Dictionary for inspiration and model. Read a page and you will enjoy the laughter; read fifty pages at one sitting and you will be drained. Some readers consider this title my best work. (I'd like to know why!) See on Amazon: hardcover $40, Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Hayward's Unabridged Dictionary.
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My first technical book, included here for completeness. It was a bit rough, but I managed to improve enough with the second title Packt Publications (my publisher) graciously allowed me to write. (My second title, Reactive Programming with JavaScript, has apparently selling like hotcakes See on Amazon: Paperback, Kindle, preview, write a review.
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Various works relating to the medieval; the author has read medieval literature extensively, sometimes in the original, but this collection represents fantasy above historical fiction. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: The Spectacles.
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This was an attempt at a Christian role-playing game. It is presented here for curiosity's sake. Good players might make the game work, but the author has moved on to other interests. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Espiritcthus: Cultures of a Fantasy World Not Touch by Evil.
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This collection includes the more major science fictio works the author has written. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Sample chapter: Within the Steel Orb.
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The Arthurian legends offer one of the most enduring legacies of medieval literature. This text explores some legends, delves into telling stories patterned after the craft of medieval European masters, and then moves on to something still deeper. See on Amazon: Paperback $12, Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: "Physics".
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This book has at least one one-star review from a reader who expected a secondary source rather than actual Socratic dialog. Notwithstanding, a reader who is interested in Socratic dialog may appreciate the title. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Plato: The Allegory of the... Flickering Screen?
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The novel in this collection was intended to provide a fantasy setting inspired by the patristic Greek East rather than the medieval Latin West. The volume includes the short story / Socratic dialog Within the steel orb, and both are additionally a treatment of giftedness. See on Amazon: hardcover $40, Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: The Steel Orb.
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A collection of poems and literature lovingly written in Elizabethan English, plus the novel The Sign of the Grail (which includes passages in medieval English). See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Why This Waste?
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Perhaps the most interesting part is what it has to say about effective negotiation. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Theory of Alien Minds: A UX* Copernican Shift.
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This anthology treats several areas related to giftedness, and turns A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court on its head and looks at a medieval genius transported to our future. See on Amazon: hardcover $40, Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: The Monastery.
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A subtle jokebook with jokes on various topics See on Amazon: Kindle $3 write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Archdruid of Canterbury Visits Orthodox Patriarch.
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Sometimes an author's earliest works can be very interesting. This volume has some of the first sparks that would result in this website. See on Amazon: Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: A Dream of Light.
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The title chapter was inspired, however crudely, by The Canterbury Tales, and touches on other topics including Orthodoxy and heterodoxy. See on Amazon: hardcover $40, Kindle $3, write a review. Download for free: Kindle, ePub, HTML, PDF. Sample chapter: Stephanos.
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This is a technical book that took an obscure, but very powerful, approach to programming, transformed the theory to something that ordinary programmers can understand (instead of saying, "This is all over my head! I don't have a PhD in computational math in the past five years"), and documented a very powerful view framework for others to use. See on Amazon: ebook, preview, write a review.
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