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Playing with God
Read more: Playing with GodThere are things that children understand instinctively. And the things that children know and understand are worth consideration. They have much to teach us. Among the most natural things children do is play. Depending on how you define play, it is among the first activities in which we engage. It comes to dominate the lives […]
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To Know Even As We Are Known
Read more: To Know Even As We Are KnownThe Scriptures bid us to “taste and see that the Lord is good.” On its face, it is an odd statement. In a number of languages, the word for knowing is related to the word for seeing. Again, there is a sensory element (taste and see) in the acquisition of knowledge. “Adam knew his wife, […]
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Our Conciliar Existence – Love
Read more: Our Conciliar Existence – LoveWe all live in an ecumenical council. We are not all bishops summoned by an Emperor, nor are we great fathers of the Church gathered to declare the deepest wisdom. Nevertheless, we live in an ecumenical council – every minute of every day – and the same test that ever faced the luminaries of the […]
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Remembering the End
Read more: Remembering the EndOrthodox Christianity often seems inherently conservative. The unyielding place that tradition holds within its life seems ready-made for a conservative bulwark against a world all-too-ready to forget everything that is good or beautiful. There are subtle but important distinctions that make this treatment of Orthodoxy misleading and can lead to the distortion of the faith […]
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The Sacrament of All Things
Read more: The Sacrament of All ThingsHow many sacraments does the Orthodox Church have? This is a question that an inquiring 16th century European might have posed. The Catholics had seven, while the Lutherans (and some other Protestants) said there were only two. “Of course,” thought the Orthodox in struggling to answer a question that had never been spoken in the […]
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The Everything of Orthodoxy
Read more: The Everything of Orthodoxy“He can’t see the forest for the trees,” the saying goes. It’s a recognition that attention to detail can obscure an overall pattern. Of course, someone could respond by saying, “He’s so overwhelmed with the forest that he can’t see the trees.” In point of fact, human beings are hard-wired for both trees and forest, […]
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The Character of Orthodoxy
Read more: The Character of OrthodoxyWhat kind of person does that? This is a simple question – one that goes to the heart of Orthodox moral thought. For some, “morality” is a question of what is right and what is wrong. The Orthodox insight is much deeper: knowing right from wrong is of little use unless you’re the kind of […]
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What’s In A Name?
Read more: What’s In A Name?I do not know its cause, but, on occasion, I hear my mother’s voice call my name. Perhaps it’s a random set of neurons going off, or something more mystical and spooky. I do not know. I know, however, that it is powerful and goes deep into my soul. Names are like that. There is […]
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What To Do With What You Know
Read more: What To Do With What You KnowIn a world driven by information, it is more than a little easy to mistake knowing something as important and good in and of itself. As such, the acquisition of spiritual information is something of a going industry. In a Russian novel written back in the 90’s, a woman intellectual encounters a monk who is […]
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St. Melito and Pascha – Hell Is Not The Last Word
Read more: St. Melito and Pascha – Hell Is Not The Last WordAmong the most powerful meditations on Pascha are the writings of Melito of Sardis (ca. 190 AD). His homily, On Pascha, is both a work of genius as poetry and a powerful work of theology. Its subject is the Lord’s Pascha – particularly as an interpretation of the Old Testament. It is a common example […]
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We stand in the Lord’s fire. Not an easy place to stand, but with the grace of God, despair not.
Father and Rob, Ditto. Lord, have mercy on us.
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