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You Are Not Alone – And Neither Is God
Read more: You Are Not Alone – And Neither Is GodI consider it both a strange mystery and a settled matter of the faith that God prefers not to do things alone. Repeatedly, He acts in a manner that involves the actions of others when it would seem, He could have acted alone. Why would God reveal His Word to the world through the agency […]
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Get Deep for Christmas
Read more: Get Deep for ChristmasSt. Athanasius College has extended me the invitation to do a four class series on the Incarnation. I am using the occasion to look into the depths of the Incarnation and the basic language that the Church uses for expressing it as theology. It undergirds virtually all Orthodox teaching. I understand that the class will […]
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The Distraction Delusion – Get Your Hands Dirty
Read more: The Distraction Delusion – Get Your Hands DirtyI recently bought a pickup truck, a twenty-five year-old clunker that runs ok. I paid $600 for it and have been slowly tending to the little fixes that it requires. It’s old enough to lack the computerization that puts vehicles beyond the reach of a shade-tree mechanic. My father and his father were both auto […]
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Providence and the Good God
Read more: Providence and the Good GodHow do you see the world? Is it deeply troubled, teetering on the brink of disaster? Are dark forces lurking, quietly undermining even the possibility of doing good? There is much talk, here and there, about the nature of the “Orthodox mind.” Whether it is discussed under the heading of “acquiring an Orthodox phronema” (which […]
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Self-Emptying Prayer
Read more: Self-Emptying PrayerWe are told that Christ “emptied Himself” in His death on the Cross (Philippians 2:5-11). Further, we are told that this self-emptying is to be the “mind” that we ourselves have. It is possible to grasp that such self-emptying can be practiced in our dealings with others when we place them above ourselves – when […]
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Goodness and a Word in Due Season
Read more: Goodness and a Word in Due SeasonThere is an old mystical Jewish belief that when God created all things, He did so by speaking their names (in Hebrew, of course). It was further believed (and here’s the mystical part) that if you could manage to speak that name in the right way, you, too, could cause it to be. The instinct […]
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The Singular Goodness of God
Read more: The Singular Goodness of GodFrom the Archives: It has long seemed to me that it is one thing to believe that God exists and quite another to believe that He is good. Indeed, to believe that God exists simply begs the question. That question is: Who is God, and what can be said of Him? Is He good? This […]
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The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ
Read more: The Glory of God in the Face of Jesus ChristFor it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2 Corinthians 4:6) I have been laboring (with some success) on a promised book regarding the nature and […]
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The Collapse into Chaos – Where Only God Makes Sense
Read more: The Collapse into Chaos – Where Only God Makes SenseNothing is more traumatic than the onset of chaos. Predictability breaks down, goodness seems to disappear, and the madness of sheer survival takes over. In chaos, everything seems plausible since reason itself has become unreachable. A recent spate of reading took me down the rabbit hole into the madness of the 14th century. For all […]
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Words from St. Isaac of Syria
Read more: Words from St. Isaac of SyriaSt. Isaac stretches love and mercy to it’s farthest limits, occasionally beyond the bounds of canonical understanding. He remains a saint of the Church and his words are very important to hear. Let yourself be persecuted, but do not persecute others. Be crucified, but do not crucify others. Se slandered, but do not slander others. […]
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Matthew, Of course. In that sentence, “I” is the subject who is repeating the thief’s words. I have edited it…
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Matthew, I don’t see them as two different accounts.