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A Dowry Much Finer Than Gold
Read more: A Dowry Much Finer Than GoldI have wrtten before of my Father-in-law. Regular readers of this blog will know that he was a man of great faith whom I never knew to be less than thankful to God. The goodness of God was doubtless his greatest joy and favorite topic of conversation. He was also a man of great prayer. […]
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Myrrhbearers and the Truth
Read more: Myrrhbearers and the TruthThe second Sunday after our Lord’s Pascha is always remembered as the “Sunday of the Myrrhbearers,” when the Church remembers the women and men who cared for our Lord’s body after His death on the Cross. Joseph and Nicodemus are the two men remembered. Mary and Martha of Bethany, Mary Magdalene, Mary the wife of […]
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I Am Not A Theologian
Read more: I Am Not A TheologianIt was noted in a comment earlier that this Blog was not nominated (for the Eastern Christian Blog Awards) in the category of theology. I should say quickly that I’m honored to be suggested as a blog worthy of consideration in any category and that there are some excellent theological blogs out there that I […]
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More on Peace from St. Silouan
Read more: More on Peace from St. SilouanHow may we preserve peace of soul among the temptations of our times? Judging by the Scriptures and the temper of folk today, we are living through the final period. Yet must we still preserve our souls’ peace, without which – as St. Seraphim said, who upheld Russia by his prayer – we cannot be […]
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Peace
Read more: PeaceFrom the teachings of St. Silouan: The man who likes to have his own way will never know peace.
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A Stranger in a Strange Land
Read more: A Stranger in a Strange LandThe Old Testament has a very discernible type within its stories: that of the stranger in a strange land. Joseph the patriarch is such a character in Egypt. Daniel is such a character in Babylon as are the Three Young Men. To a degree, Jacob is such a character in the house of his father-in-law. […]
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How to “Read” the Church
Read more: How to “Read” the ChurchIf, as I have wrtten, the Orthodox Church itself is the proper interpretation of Scripture – then one might ask, “How am I supposed to read the Scriptures if their interpretation is the Church?” It is a good, even an obvious question, but one which points us to the very thing at hand: the nature […]
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A Letter from Butyrskaya Prison – Pascha 1928
Read more: A Letter from Butyrskaya Prison – Pascha 1928Serge Schmemann, son of Fr. Alexander Schmemann, in his wonderful little book, Echoes of a Native Land, records a letter written from one of his family members of an earlier generation, who spent several years in the prisons of the Soviets and died there. The letter, written on the night of Pascha in 1928 is […]
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More on an Orthodox Hermeneutic
Read more: More on an Orthodox HermeneuticIt is the common witness of the gospels that the disciples seemed to have no clue when it came to the death and resurrection of Christ – until after the resurrection. The classic story of this is to be found in St. Luke’s gospel: Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to […]
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An Orthodox Hermeneutic
Read more: An Orthodox HermeneuticIs or can there be such a thing as an Orthodox hermeneutic (method of interpretation) of Scripture? I asserted in a recent post that there was such a thing and that the Orthodox would do well to work towards its recovery rather than using the hermeneutics of others who do not hold the Orthodox faith. […]
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