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Is This All There Is?
Read more: Is This All There Is?It all depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. – President Bill Clinton Surely there are some things about which everyone can agree – or not. Either something exists or it doesn’t. Or is there more to the story? In the thought of the Fathers, existence has a number of qualities. That we […]
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A Complicated Faith
Read more: A Complicated Faith“It’s complicated.” This statement sums up much of the modern experience. I do not think the world we encounter is actually complicated – but our experience is. Simplicity is the reflection of an inner world free of conflicts and undercurrents. The truth of the modern inner-world is that it is generally pulled in many directions. […]
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God and Creation
Read more: God and CreationConversations about “God” often discuss Him as though He were a concept, and idea that can be isolated, studied and considered. Of course, the word “God” can often be little more than a cipher for something whose meaning everyone thinks they know, but whose meaning may vary a great deal. This can especially be true […]
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The Beauty of Truth and the Existence of God
Read more: The Beauty of Truth and the Existence of GodWhat is the criterion of the rightness of this life? Beauty. – Fr. Pavel Florensky It is our habit of thought to think of Truth as, more or less, a correct description or a correct statement. As such, Beauty belongs to some other realm of thought. Beauty cannot be “correct” or “incorrect.” In Orthodox thought, […]
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Memory Eternal – Fr. Jacob Myers
Read more: Memory Eternal – Fr. Jacob MyersMy wife and I learned tonight of the sudden death of a beloved friend, Fr. Jacob Myers. Fr. Jacob was Rector of St. John the Wonderworker Orthodox Church in Atlanta, Georgia. I do not think there is anyone whom he met who could not count him as a friend. He was one of the most […]
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The Shape of Scripture and the Orthodox Faith
Read more: The Shape of Scripture and the Orthodox FaithI have written frequently about the Orthodox understanding of the Scriptures. I offer a quote taken from a lecture by Fr. Andrew Louth, Professor of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at Durham University, priest in the Diocese of Sourozh (Great Britain) in the Russian Orthodox Church. This passage comes from the first lecture in the series. […]
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In the Secret Place
Read more: In the Secret PlaceFollowing up on the previous article’s discussion of shame and envy – I offer this reprint of an early piece which looks at the right role of the “secret” and “hidden” things of the liturgy. Of all the places and spaces to which we should attend – this article names the most important. I suspect […]
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Shame and Envy – Our Secret Sins
Read more: Shame and Envy – Our Secret SinsSeveral years back I stumbled on a book about the sin of envy. I was struck by what I read and realized that I had never heard a sermon on the topic (nor preached one). Though a number of the Fathers cite envy as the first and greatest sin, it never seemed to come up […]
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Matthew, The creation of “Bible Christianity” in its many forms was, I think, a serious distortion of the faith -…
Esmée, What an interesting passage – that goes far in commenting on St. Paul’s 1Cor. 3 passage. Many thanks!
Thanks so much for the quote from the Philokalia, Esmée. It is absolutely wonderful. Beautiful. Filled with so much hope!…
I have been re-reading the Philokalia and came across this passage about the fire of Last Judgment which might be…
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