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Knowing the Beautiful God
Read more: Knowing the Beautiful GodWe prove God’s existence by worshiping him and not by advancing so-called proofs. We have here the liturgical and iconographic argument for the existence of God. We arrive at a solid belief in the existence of God through a leap over what seems true, over the Pascalian certitude. According to an ancient monastic saying, “Give […]
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Change and the Mystery of God
Read more: Change and the Mystery of GodA body changes in its activity as a result of contact with another body. How therefore could there be no change in someone who with innocent hands has touched the Body of God. St. John Climacus, Ladder of Divine Ascent, 28. +++ I am the father of four adult children, all of them married. In […]
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The Kingdom of God and the Texture of Life
Read more: The Kingdom of God and the Texture of LifeThere is a “texture of life” that cannot be reduced. It has a richness that rational descriptions cannot capture. Though we battle with powerful forces that draw us towards the destructiveness of sin – there is written deep within us a hunger for wholeness and the capacity for God. In the words of St. John, […]
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In Abkhazia
Read more: In Abkhazia[vodpod id=Video.15506091&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] In Abkhazia, posted with vodpod
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Mind and Heart
Read more: Mind and HeartI write frequently about what I term the Religion of the Heart. Archimandrite Meletios Webber has a short piece on what can be called the Religion of the Mind. The distinction between mind and heart is not a distinction between thought and feeling. Rather it is a distinction between the mind (seat of thoughts and […]
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Crossing the Bar
Read more: Crossing the BarI served a Church in the course of ministry in which a large group of my members were educated (in a way few are today), thoughtful and of an age similar to that of my parents or a few years older. They belonged to that “greatest generation,” veterans the Second World War or deeply enmeshed […]
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Religion as Neurotic Delusion
Read more: Religion as Neurotic DelusionFrom the Journal of Father Alexander Schmemann, Saturday, December 31, 1977 Father Tom gave me a circular Christmas letter from some Trappist in Massachusetts. In his monastery, all traditions meet (West, East, Buddhism), all rites, all experiences. Sounds rather barbarian. It is as if traditions were some sort of clothing. Dress as a Buddhist – and […]
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Salvation, Ontology, Existential, and Other Large Words
Read more: Salvation, Ontology, Existential, and Other Large WordsIn recent posts I have contrasted morality with ontological, as well as existential, etc. I’ve had comments here and elsewhere in which people stumbled over the terms. The distinction offered is not a private matter. Orthodox theologians for better than a century have struggled to make these points as being utterly necessary to the life […]
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The State of Things
Read more: The State of ThingsI’m going to break a few personal rules in this post. Normally I try to write within the known bounds of the Eastern Orthodox faith. I also try to write about things I know – both rules limit the range of my writing. But for this post, I want to “think aloud” about some things […]
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Thanks so much for your thoughts Dee. This “looking for Christ” (for me, Christ´s fullness) is what drew me to…