by Patrik Olterman | Aug 22, 2015 | Chivalric values, Family, Life is my religion
Continuing the conversation about the mature and immature feminine and masculine. I will start looking at the masculine. In todays society we have a lot of the immature masculine going around. In fact there is a public caricature of what the masculine is that is...
by Patrik Olterman | Nov 23, 2012 | Chivalric values, Christian life, Theological reflection
The trinity of love consists, according to Christian Schwartz book “The 3 colors of love”, of truth grace and justice. The scriptures rarely mention truth or grace without mentioning justice, but what if any is the relationship between the three? Grace is...
by Patrik Olterman | Jul 24, 2012 | Chivalric values, Christian life, Sex
I have been putting of writing this post for nearly a week now, I get both uneasy and angry just by thinking about it. Stephen Court wrote the following in his blog the other day:Evangelicals Encouraging Contraception for Singles?http://t.co/w0Y29aLA It turns out that...
by Patrik Olterman | Apr 14, 2011 | Chivalric values, Christian life
A few days ago I was talking to a friend who was showing of a beautiful griffon inked on her arm, I let slip that next time we’d see each other I would be branded, she looked at me nonplussed and said “you have always been branded”. I was...
by Patrik Olterman | Jul 21, 2010 | Chivalric values
First I read it on facebook, then I read it on twitter, and then a whole blog post describing how I got beaten in the Schola at my own game (ground fighting). I get a bit bewildered at this, what’s the big deal? But I realise that I have been there to, when you...
by Patrik Olterman | Jul 7, 2010 | Chivalric values, Christian life
Do you need faith in god to be a knight? The question was asked on my youtube channel. The simple answer is yes and no! You must have faith to be a knight! Faith is one of the Knightly virtues and there can be no Knighthood without faith. How will you be able to...