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Why People Become Orthodox
Read more: Why People Become OrthodoxNow this is indeed a presumptious title for a post – as if there were only one reason that people convert to the Orthodox faith. There are certainly many reasons, nuanced by the various personalities that come. And do they ever come! I was asked in Minneapolis, “What sort of Evangelism Events do you have […]
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Thoughts on Dostoevsky
Read more: Thoughts on DostoevskyI have begun re-reading The Brothers Karamazov, this time in the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, which, I am told is a great improvement over earlier efforts. I readily confess to being a great fan of Dostoevsky and easily touched by his novels. I find an occasional brilliance in them that reveals the […]
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News Media Loses Its Mind Yet Again – They’ll Believe Anything
Read more: News Media Loses Its Mind Yet Again – They’ll Believe AnythingRoughly paraphrasing G.K. Chesterton: “When a man ceases to believe in God, it’s not so much that he believes in nothing, as it is he is willing to believe in anything.” Proving this maxim once again, the media have given splash to a completely discredited discovery of the “bones” of Jesus (including an assumption that […]
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It’s Not Just the Details, It’s Not Just the Particulars, It’s Something Personal
Read more: It’s Not Just the Details, It’s Not Just the Particulars, It’s Something PersonalI have long been intrigued with the notion of our common responsibility, or rather, that I am responsible for the sins of the whole world. I think I first came across the notion in a quote from the Elder Zossima in The Brothers Karamazov. And even there, Dostoevsky was only putting on the lips of […]
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It’s Not Just the Details – It’s the Particulars
Read more: It’s Not Just the Details – It’s the ParticularsI wrote earlier of the details – and my own wrestling with the details of my travel. Slowly, I am decompressing and regaining my own composure. The difficulty of life is not really found in the details but in its very character as particular. I think people do very well in general – that is […]
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In the Details – God Reigns
Read more: In the Details – God ReignsFor the second day, I am sitting in airports, just one of many thousands effected by a snow storm and a storm of flight cancellations. I cannot complain – I was comfortable last night and am so now. I will have missed my Tuesday appointments and responsibilities but it cannot be helped. But these are […]
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Pictures from Minneapolis Sunday of Orthodoxy
Read more: Pictures from Minneapolis Sunday of OrthodoxyPictures from the Sunday of Orthodoxy were made available today. I gladly share them any who wish to see that wonderful Cathedral.
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If You Weren’t in Minneapolis – Thoughts on the Sunday of Orthodoxy
Read more: If You Weren’t in Minneapolis – Thoughts on the Sunday of OrthodoxyMy weekend in Minneapolis was a tremendous joy. The Minnesota Eastern Orthodox Clergy Association is a wonderful brotherhood of Orthodox priests and deacons that has obviously helped foster a strong since of common Orthodox identity and true brotherhood. It was a pleasure Sunday evening to be in the altar with so many brothers from various […]
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Who’s To Blame?
Read more: Who’s To Blame?I frequently buy used books (indeed with the used books feature on Amazon, I often can only afford to buy used books). You try to get a good, clean copy, but occasionally they come with marginal comments. My volume of St. Silouan the Athonite is used, and has a number of marginal comments from my […]
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Happy Birthday Khouria!
Read more: Happy Birthday Khouria!My second daughter, Kathryn, has a birthday today and I am nowhere near to give the hugs that should be given. But I pray her many years! And all the joy that can be had!
Beautiful! Wise and wonderful encouragement. God Bless and Keep You!