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How Simple Should Christianity Be?
Read more: How Simple Should Christianity Be?There is a tendency in our modern world to make things as simple as possible. We hide the complexities behind a keyboard (I don’t know how my computer works – or not very well) or we treat things that seem complex as unnecessary obfuscations. This same drive to simplify was very much alive in the […]
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What's the Point?
Read more: What's the Point?For a man who does not believe in God – nothing points to God. For a man who believes in God – everything points to God. So who’s right? There is almost no argument between these two experiences. For someone who does not believe in God my own contention that everything points to God is […]
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The Agent of Change
Read more: The Agent of ChangeA continuation of the series on culture and the individual. As inhabitants of our modern culture, we find ourselves trapped in a world of “cause and effect.” It is a physical explanation of the universe that has, for all intents and purposes, become a universal metaphor, dominating religion and the most personal aspects of our […]
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Dostoevsky on the Individual
Read more: Dostoevsky on the IndividualThe following passage from The Brothers Karamazov is taken from one of the “Talks and Homilies” of the Elder Zossima – one of the key characters in the novel. His thoughts echo earlier articles here that contrast man as “individual” (isolation) to man as Person (brotherhood and communion). I plan to offer a series of thoughts […]
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Rejoice, O Virgin – A Blessed Feast
Read more: Rejoice, O Virgin – A Blessed Feast[vodpod id=Groupvideo.3196836&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “Rejoice, O Virgin“, posted with vodpod
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Being Famous Doesn't Make You Moral
Read more: Being Famous Doesn't Make You MoralThe news story is so common that the name can be left blank. “N. confessed today that he has been unfaithful to his wife and children and let down his fans. ‘I want to say I’m sorry for what I’ve done and ask God’s forgiveness.’” I do not believe that our nation is suffering a […]
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Dee, This is intriguing! Can you point us to more information?
The three dimensional Cross existed well before Descartes’ ideation. It lies within all reality as a mystery we barely discern.
Indeed, we have a small sliver of the Cross in our Greek Orthodox parish, which we venerated. Father, I hope…
Thanks so much for the explanation Fr. Stephen.
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Father, As far as I understand it, Descartes’ metaphysics was strongly dualistic, with a distinction between mind and matter. I…