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Monday – the Day of the Holy Angels
Read more: Monday – the Day of the Holy AngelsYesterday I set out to write a short piece on each day of the week. In the Orthodox calendar, each day of the week has its own particular dedication – an aspect of the life and ministry of Christ or of our life as Christians. Monday is remembered as the Day of the Angels. The […]
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Sunday Morning – Resurrection
Read more: Sunday Morning – ResurrectionGod willing, I offer a set of short meditations this week – on the days of the week. In Orthodoxy each day has its own “dedication,” something which marks the day and its hymnody, etc. Some of those days are more obvious than others. Perhaps the most obvious day of all is Sunday – the […]
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Safe Return
Read more: Safe ReturnThank you for your prayers. We have returned safely home – just in time for the weekend’s services. I’ll return to the conversation Sunday evening or Monday morning. Many thanks to all. It looks like there is plenty to look at when I return to my desk.
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America and the Church – More Thoughts
Read more: America and the Church – More ThoughtsGetreligion.org recently drew attention to a New York Times article on modern evangelicalism and the role that various forms of music are playing in their current configuration. The article contained this striking quote and observation from an interview with Tom Mercer, senior pastor of the evangelical church featured in the article: “When you start a […]
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Thanksgiving Evening – 2007 – America and Christianity
Read more: Thanksgiving Evening – 2007 – America and ChristianityMy Thanksgiving over the past few years has mostly served as one of the few occasions for the gathering of extended family. Somethings are measured in these meetings – the passing of time – I am older; my parents are older – and now the children are increasingly the adults. I am beginning to assume […]
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Happy Thanksgiving (American Holiday)
Read more: Happy Thanksgiving (American Holiday)In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you (1 Thess. 5:18).
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A Little Child Enters the Temple
Read more: A Little Child Enters the TempleThe story in the gospel of Christ’s visits to the Temple in his childhood – the first at 40 days of age (marked by the Feast of the Presentation and the occasion of prophecy by the Elder Simeon and Hannah the Prophetess) and at age 12 when He is lost and later found giving instruction […]
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What Faith Shall I Defend?
Read more: What Faith Shall I Defend?Contemporary challenges to the Christian faith, whether from children’s writers such as Pullman or various scientific voices in the world of mass media, are frequently not challenges to the Christian faith but attacks on the misperceptions of the Christian faith. By the same token, many professions of the Christian faith are not professions of the […]
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Where Do the Children Play?
Read more: Where Do the Children Play?I recall an old Cat Stevens song from the early 70’s, Where Do the Children Play? It runs through my head from time to time when I think about the adult world interacting with children. I had the phrase somewhat in mind when I reacted to the recent invasion of Harry Potter’s world by JK […]
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Another Milestone – with Thanks
Read more: Another Milestone – with ThanksSometime tomorrow (here in Tennessee) or this evening (if something unusual happens) Glory to God for All Things will reach another milestone in its young life. We will cross 400,000 “views” since the blog’s debut in October last year. Readership has continued to grow (slowly but steadily) which is encouraging. In general, I think we’ve […]
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