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Telling the Truth
Read more: Telling the TruthMy recent writings have caused me to want to offer this reprint. Truth-telling is not a moral activity, but an activity of true existence. It is a simple command: ‘Do not lie,’ but it is tantamount to saying ‘Exist!’ +++ Abba Poemen said, “Teach your mouth to say that which is in your heart.” Speaking […]
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From Under the Rubble
Read more: From Under the RubbleDostoevsky wrote in the mid-19th century, a time when many ideas and cultural forces were only beginning to coelesce. We live in an age after which those forces have come together, and after which they have largely been judged by history to have fallen short of their stated ideals. The world has witnessed more than […]
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The Secular Man and the Christian Man
Read more: The Secular Man and the Christian ManThe Secular Man has been the great threat to the Christian faith over the past two or more centuries. Disguised as the person is only only doing the “normal thing,” he lives in a godless world, where others can be tempted to live as though there were no God. Earlier I quoted Berdyaev, “If God […]
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Notes from the Underground And Man’s True Heart
Read more: Notes from the Underground And Man’s True HeartI have recently been reading in a classic work, Nicholas Berdyaev’s Dostoevsky. Berdyaev was a twentieth-century Russian philosopher (existentialist) and deeply sympathetic to Dostoevsky’s works. I find some of his treatment to be tremendously satisfying and “on the mark.” I offer an extended quote and some thoughts… Berdyaev quotes from Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground: […]
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The Church and the Cross of Christ
Read more: The Church and the Cross of ChristThis series is a reflection of the life of the Cross in the life of the Church. Orthodoxy in the modern world (as well as its past) frequently engages in struggle – not only with the world – but within itself. This is not the failure of an ideal – for the Church is not […]
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The Things We Share
Read more: The Things We ShareModern culture frequently celebrates the freedom we each enjoy – in come cases going so far as to think of human beings as discreet individuals. Of course each of us lives in his/her own body – but even as such – we live in a common world. What I do and how I live affects […]
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The Hard Reality of the Kingdom of God
Read more: The Hard Reality of the Kingdom of GodThere are many things that bring us up against the hard reality of the Kingdom of God. The Gospel given to us by Christ, the verbal icon of the Kingdom, often gives us commands or parables that run radically counter to instinct (as we experience it) and, not infrequently, against reason (or so it seems). […]
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Hiding from God and God’s Hiddenness
Read more: Hiding from God and God’s HiddennessI have written a number of times about the “hiddenness” of God. It is a very important aspect of how He makes Himself known (though I know that is a paradox). His hiddenness both protects our freedom and removes compulsion from our relationship with God. There can be no compulsion where there is love. I […]
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Beyond Pascha
Read more: Beyond PaschaForty days of Great Lent having been completed, along with Holy Week, and the Great Feast of Feasts, Pascha, having been marked in the Church, it is very easy to take a deep breath and say, “Now, that’s done!.” And with the exhalation we take our leave of a liturgical feast and return to our […]
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Christos Voskrese!
Read more: Christos Voskrese!A wonderful Pascha song from Serbia! [vodpod id=Video.1632733&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] Easter orthodox song_Hristos voskrese, posted with vodpod Translation: People rejoice, nations hear: Christ is risen, and brings the joy! Stars dance, mountains sing: Christ is risen, and brings the joy! Forests murmur, winds hum: Christ is risen, and brings the joy! Seas bow*, animals roar: Christ is […]
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Father, That does help. It can be hard to understand how the “nature” of creation is good, and the “state”…
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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…