Around the Web 2014-03-17

A weekly round-up of articles, blog posts, and reviews.

• Dr. Jean-Claude Larchet, Orthodox Frenchman and author of numerous books on an Orthodox approach to Spiritual Healing, gave an interview recently to the official radio station of the Church of Greece. The interview was transcribed, subsequently translated by John Sanidopoulos, and posted to his new weblog Honey and Hemlock. 

• A review of the new book Thirty Steps to Heaven, a "layman's guide" to the Ladder of Divine Ascent, can be found here.(Note: the reviewer is a Roman Catholic with an interest in Orthodox spiritual and liturgical writings.)

• Fr. Stephen Freeman (author of Everywhere Present: Christianity in a One-Storey Universe), wrote on his popular blog Glory to God for All Things about the difficulties of fasting in the modern world and how we might overcome them. It's worth a read.

• The blog Mystagogy posted a homily by prolific author Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou on the significance of St. Gregory Palamas in light of his celebration on the second Sunday of the Great Fast.