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That the Gospel Should be Shared in Love – St. Silouan
Read more: That the Gospel Should be Shared in Love – St. SilouanThe following is another excerpt from Father Sophrony’s Saint Silouan of the Athonite. Father Silouan’s attitude towards those who differed from him was characterized by a sincere desire to see what was good in them, and not to offend them in anything they held sacred. He always remained himself; he was utterly convinced that ‘salvation […]
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Back to Metaphors
Read more: Back to MetaphorsSuppose you have the occasion to sit with someone, an interested party, and explain to them the Christian faith. How do you tell the story? When I was in college we had groups who shared the 4 Spiritual Laws – a version of a Christian story, but not the one I would tell. We do […]
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If You Would Celebrate Pentecost – Love Your Enemies
Read more: If You Would Celebrate Pentecost – Love Your EnemiesFrom the Elder Sophrony’s St. Silouan the Athonite. This commandment of Christ’s, ‘Love your enemies,’ is the reflection in our world of the Triune God’s all-perfect love, and constitutes the corner-stone of our whole teaching. It is the ultimate synthesis of all our theology. It is the ‘power from on high’ and the ‘abundance of […]
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Humility and Love
Read more: Humility and LoveThe following is from the Afterword of Father Sophrony’s Saint Silouan the Athonite. If we cast our thoughts back over the bimillenary history of Christianity we are dazzled by the enormous wealth of Christian culture. Vast libraries full of the grandiose works of the human mind and spirit – innumerable academies, universities, institutes, where hundreds […]
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Flattery and a Secret Plot by the Kremlin
Read more: Flattery and a Secret Plot by the KremlinAll flattery, my friends, as Josef Pieper well taught us, is a form of manipulation. Mass flattery manipulates the soul of a culture. It drags a nation to hell. A quote from Ochlophobist‘s May 19 posting. The thought is worth slow contemplation. I am reminded of a tee-shirt (admittedly too cute) with the picture of […]
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I Really Wasn’t Kidding – There’s Another Gospel Out There
Read more: I Really Wasn’t Kidding – There’s Another Gospel Out ThereI generally enjoy our comments and also following the links when others share some portion of Glory to God for All Things with others. Last week I posted on the necessity for the whole gospel – that is – the gospel received by the Apostles and taught to the Church. I noted that in many […]
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Learning to Wait
Read more: Learning to WaitI have never done a search to see how many times the word for “patience” is used in the New Testament – but my general impression is that it is a lot. Patience is not only a virtue, it is utterly necessary to our life in Christ. I can recall having almost no patience at […]
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Keeping the End of Things in its Place – and a Little Bob Dylan
Read more: Keeping the End of Things in its Place – and a Little Bob DylanI started to entitle this, “Keeping Eschatology in its Place,” but then I remembered that I should eschew obfuscation. 🙂 But the doctrine of the Last Things, generally referred to as “Eschatology,” is deeply important for our lives as Christians – primarily because our faith is an eschatological faith. There it is in the Creed, […]
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All the Fullness of Christ
Read more: All the Fullness of ChristWhen you read this you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit; that is, how the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, […]
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How Much Is Too Little? How Much Is Enough?
Read more: How Much Is Too Little? How Much Is Enough?One of the most pervasive rules in Christian believing is the Latin phrase, “Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi,” usually rendered, “The Law of Praying is the Law of Believing.” It is a simple way of saying both that we believe what we pray (praying will inevitably bring about a conformity in believing), and that if something […]
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Simon, Veryh well said. I agree.
I am not so sure that we should qualify Romans 13 with “a beneficial ruler.” That runs the risk of…
Thanks so much Mark.
Romans 13 calls to mind Ephesians 5:22-33 (“Wives, submit to your husbands” etc.). Preparatory to that passage, however, is “Submit…
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I was sloppy in my choice of “beneficial,” whereas I intended more the sense of *beneficent*: “Doing or causing good;…