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Safely in Florida
Read more: Safely in FloridaIt seems ironic to report that I am safely in Florida, following so closely on a post concerning Science Fiction and the Orthodox Church. Florida, of course, has been the launching site for most American space research. I also find it interesting that my article on Science Fiction and the Church, which touched tangentially on […]
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Travels
Read more: TravelsI will be in Jacksonville, FL for most of next week, attending a clergy conference and retreat (with Met. Jonah). I can never tell on these things how much time there will be for blogging. Sometimes plenty – sometimes hardly any at all. I ask your prayers and your patience. I’ll be back at things […]
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Orthodoxy and Science Fiction
Read more: Orthodoxy and Science FictionIf you are 55 or younger (as a guestimate), then you have grown up in an age in which science fiction has been a major genre of the culture (whether as writing or movies, television, etc.). I began reading some science fiction as a teenager and quite a bit when I was a college student. […]
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Dreams and Reality – Prayers by the Lake XXXI
Read more: Dreams and Reality – Prayers by the Lake XXXIThe following poem is from St. Nikolai’s (Velimirovich) Prayers by the Lake. The only true Reality is God and only in Him do we find ourselves to be real. +++ You pour out light over the darkness, Lord, and colors and shapes emerge. You bend Your face over the abyss, whose name is Nothingness, and […]
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Living in the Un-holy Land
Read more: Living in the Un-holy LandGenerally, our language reserves the word “unholy” to mean something evil or positively wicked (now there’s an oxymoron). Of course we also live in a culture where not much, or nothing at all, is considered holy. We think we live in a neutral zone – a place that is merely secular. Of course, the modern […]
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The Desert and the Struggle in a Flat Land
Read more: The Desert and the Struggle in a Flat LandOriginally posted in August of 2007 as part of the One-Storey Universe Series One of the best-known sayings to have come from the Desert Fathers is: “Stay in your cell and your cell will teach you everything.” To a large degree the saying extols the virtue of stability. Moving from place to place never removes […]
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The Benefits of Ignorance
Read more: The Benefits of IgnoranceOf course, I have to begin this post with the acknowledgement that I am an ignorant man. Having gotten that out of the way, I want to spend just a few moments on the benefits of ignorance. This past November I was blessed to have a conversation with Fr. Thomas Hopko while we waited in […]
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St. John of the Ladder on Anger
Read more: St. John of the Ladder on AngerI continue with some thoughts on this important subject. This is taken from the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent (chapter 8). There are a number of very worthy insights – quite similar to those found in Met. Jonah article referenced earlier. As the gradual pouring of water on a fire puts out […]
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Orthodox Understanding of Anger
Read more: Orthodox Understanding of AngerI am posting here a link to a wonderful article by Met. Jonah Paffhausen that speaks eloquently to the spiritual disciplines regarding anger and similar issues. It is entitled: Do not react.
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The Forty Days of Christmas
Read more: The Forty Days of ChristmasMy title is slightly misleading. There are not “forty days of Christmas” in the Orthodox Church – but there is a major feast that marks the fortieth after Christmas: the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, sometimes called the Feast of the Meeting (February 2). It occurs forty days after Christmas in accordance to the […]
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