Archive - The Pragmatic Mystic: An Orthodox Miscellany

An eclectic batch of recommended videos

Aug 4 • Addison Hodges Hart

Posture (and posturing) in prayer and worship

Taking sides with Alice and Ebenezer Scrooge

Aug 1 • Addison Hodges Hart

July 2026

Spiritual fence-construction 101 (second of two parts)

Jul 24 • Addison Hodges Hart

Spiritual fence-construction 101 (first of two parts)

Jul 17 • Addison Hodges Hart

"Solitariness" illustrated: a few recommended video "retreats"

Jul 10 • Addison Hodges Hart

"Distracted from distraction by distraction"

Unavoidably, we are all "solitaries" - often without knowing it (or ourselves)

Jul 8 • Addison Hodges Hart

June 2026

Orthodoxy and spiritual direction

Its distinguishing features

Jun 30 • Addison Hodges Hart

"Burnout" and spiritual direction

The insights of Martin Thornton

Jun 26 • Addison Hodges Hart

Apologetics, Cassian, Screwtape, and the babyish seventh capital vice

Polemics should not be confused with apologetics.

Jun 18 • Addison Hodges Hart

John's Gospel, Genesis, and us

Trains, time, eternity, and "creation week"

Jun 9 • Addison Hodges Hart

"Orthodox burnout," Abbot Chapman, St. Benedict, St. Anthony and two recommendations (one video, one book)

Jun 1 • Addison Hodges Hart

May 2026

On demons and exorcism (Part 6): Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena and...

... other delusions...

May 29 • Addison Hodges Hart

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