The Best "Orthodox Blog" in Existence (and a Handful of Others)

In his most recent update to the excellent Orthodox Christian Information Center, webmaster Patrick Barnes noted:

"Ora et Labora. This is the best blog I've seen on Orthodox Christianity. The blogger, a Russian Orthodox clergyman who wishes to remain anonymous, posts frequently and with considerable insight and erudition."

After only a few days of reading Ora et Labora, I can attest to the truth Patrick's words and heartily recommend this wonderful blog to all. Here is one more exception (and quite a marvellous one!) to "the pseudo-academic, obnoxiously self-important, dolefully provincial yet militant Americanist 'Orthodoxy' that dominates the Internet" (and which I mentioned earlier).

Also, since some of you have asked in the past about "Orthodox blogs"* that might be worth your while, I will take this chance to highlight those listed on my blogroll in addition to Ora et Labora, which are the ones that I myself read and find useful and interesting:

• Again and Again (Fr Milovan Katanić)
• Logismoi (Aaron Taylor)
• Orrologion (Christopher Orr)

I'm sure there are others, but again, these are the ones I read, and they have yet to disappoint. (N.B.: There is also, of course, Kevin Edgecomb's wonderful blog Biblicalia, but I've always thought of it more along the lines of a "biblioblog" by an Orthodox author.)


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* I have no earthly idea of what an "Orthodox blog" may be. I have never seen a blog being baptized, chrismated or communed. Allowing for some imaginative exegesis of these words, however, I suppose that they might refer to blogs dedicated to theology and the spiritual life (which are, after all, one and the same thing) written by Orthodox Christian authors from the perspective of the Tradition of the Orthodox Church. This was, in any case, my working definition for my limited selection here.