Phil Dorroll
@phildorroll.bsky.social
Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
My office and classrooms are in this building tho so I am also in an ivory tower
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 PM
My office and classrooms are in this building tho so I am also in an ivory tower
Post you from a different era.
Ca. 2002, around 17 (as an altar boy; the local paper did a story about our church)
Ca. 2002, around 17 (as an altar boy; the local paper did a story about our church)
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Post you from a different era.
Ca. 2002, around 17 (as an altar boy; the local paper did a story about our church)
Ca. 2002, around 17 (as an altar boy; the local paper did a story about our church)
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My favorite books on nepsis fwiw; especially the selection from Hesychios the Priest in the former, which I've reread more times that I can remember
November 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My favorite books on nepsis fwiw; especially the selection from Hesychios the Priest in the former, which I've reread more times that I can remember
This is an amazing read, from beginning to end; explains why I’ve found AGI discourse so alarming- it’s like watching the whole world make the literal oldest mistake in the book
November 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is an amazing read, from beginning to end; explains why I’ve found AGI discourse so alarming- it’s like watching the whole world make the literal oldest mistake in the book
I’m not Anglican, but I love quizzes like this so this is me apparently
November 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I’m not Anglican, but I love quizzes like this so this is me apparently
… Orthodox Christian social thought: (1/x)
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
… Orthodox Christian social thought: (1/x)
Not exactly a vampire, but still cool
October 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Not exactly a vampire, but still cool
This is *exactly* what I posted about just a few days ago- this level of suspicion is absolutely absurd and has been almost exclusively directed at Muslims for over 20 years. People around the world refer to various relations as aunts and uncles all the time!
And the story he told about…
And the story he told about…
October 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This is *exactly* what I posted about just a few days ago- this level of suspicion is absolutely absurd and has been almost exclusively directed at Muslims for over 20 years. People around the world refer to various relations as aunts and uncles all the time!
And the story he told about…
And the story he told about…
2) This point imo is particularly essential- one of the temptations of liberalism is self-destruction, and this is why rejection of *liberal* tradition, again despite its faults, is a sure path to tyranny and not to liberation.
October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
2) This point imo is particularly essential- one of the temptations of liberalism is self-destruction, and this is why rejection of *liberal* tradition, again despite its faults, is a sure path to tyranny and not to liberation.
This is now easily my favorite essay on political thought in recent memory; just a few points to further strengthen it that came to mind:
1) The refutation of the illiberal argument from temptation is great; but you can make it even stronger by pointing out that illiberalism…
1) The refutation of the illiberal argument from temptation is great; but you can make it even stronger by pointing out that illiberalism…
October 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This is now easily my favorite essay on political thought in recent memory; just a few points to further strengthen it that came to mind:
1) The refutation of the illiberal argument from temptation is great; but you can make it even stronger by pointing out that illiberalism…
1) The refutation of the illiberal argument from temptation is great; but you can make it even stronger by pointing out that illiberalism…
Literally amen to every word of this piece
October 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Literally amen to every word of this piece
So good might as well be its own subtype (Asheville)
October 26, 2025 at 2:05 AM
So good might as well be its own subtype (Asheville)
By the local creek this morning
October 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
By the local creek this morning
Just discovered the work of Muhammad Fraser-Rahim (who teaches at The Citadel in Charleston), and I absolutely cannot wait to read and teach his books:
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Just discovered the work of Muhammad Fraser-Rahim (who teaches at The Citadel in Charleston), and I absolutely cannot wait to read and teach his books:
Obligatory salat bow (I think)
October 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Obligatory salat bow (I think)
Thanks! It was given to my great-great grandfather Teodor Gabla for service to his parish (St. Mary’s Russian Orthodox Church in Gary, IN). He was Rusyn from the Carpathians in Galicia and came to the US at the start of the 20th cent., after which he converted from Greek Catholicism to Orthodoxy.
October 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Thanks! It was given to my great-great grandfather Teodor Gabla for service to his parish (St. Mary’s Russian Orthodox Church in Gary, IN). He was Rusyn from the Carpathians in Galicia and came to the US at the start of the 20th cent., after which he converted from Greek Catholicism to Orthodoxy.
Favorite time of year
October 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Favorite time of year
Fall is poetry season
October 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Fall is poetry season