Not long ago, I was interviewed on a wonderful British podcast called The History of Byzantium. The host, Robin Pierson, had received a lot of queries from his listeners about the Orthodox Church as he told the history of a civilization profoundly influenced by it. Here you can listen to the interview.
Byzantium
Are We Crusaders?
In my previous post I noted that among several causes for radical Islam’s hatred of the west there is the legacy of the crusades, the series of wars fought by Christians against the Muslim Arabs during the middle ages.
It is striking that in the statement issued by ISIS following the recent attacks in Paris the authors claimed to be visiting a kind of revenge on what they called “crusaders.” It is obviously a fantastic stretch of the imagination to equate the average Parisian of the twenty first century with the crusaders of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The difference in mentalité could not be greater. Continue reading
PARADISE AND UTOPIA 