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Join Me for a Webinar
Read more: Join Me for a WebinarAncient Faith has started a new series of webinars and has invited me to be one of their presenters. Join me for this evening of thought and conversation. Your participation will help us continue this venue in the future! I have had wonderful conversations on the blog regarding the topic of shame. This webinar will […]
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Naked and Ashamed: Dealing with It
Read more: Naked and Ashamed: Dealing with ItThe Scriptures record that Adam was ashamed and hid. It’s a primal response. Shame is experienced as a burning sense of exposure and vulnerability. It begs to be clothed upon and hidden. It is possible to say that human beings have been playing “dress-up” ever since. This can be understood in a literal manner as […]
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Right Glory – Orthodoxy in Its Own Language
Read more: Right Glory – Orthodoxy in Its Own LanguageWhen I was in grad school, I had a term paper graded and returned to me. In it, was a phrase, circled in red, with an explanation and an exclamation mark. It read: “Double modal!” The offending phrase was “might could.” I looked at the phrase, which seemed perfectly acceptable to my ear, and puzzled […]
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Forgiveness – Give an Enemy a Cup of Cold Water
Read more: Forgiveness – Give an Enemy a Cup of Cold WaterThere is a story related in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov about an old woman who was quite wicked. She dies and goes to hell to the great distress of her guardian angel. The angel searches for any possible good deed to plead on her behalf and finds a rotten onion – something the old woman […]
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Mystery as Reality
Read more: Mystery as RealityC.S. Lewis once discussed the question of how angels (and such things) could pass through a wall. His response was intriguing: he suggested that they could do so not because they were less substantial, but because they were more substantial. Just as a rock is more substantial than water or air, so, he posited, an angel […]
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The Mystery of “Mystery”
Read more: The Mystery of “Mystery”Few words can be more misleading to the modern ear than the Orthodox use of the word “mystery.” It’s a fine New Testament word and is (technically) the proper name for the sacraments in Orthodoxy (though we most often say ‘sacrament’ in English). Its root meaning is that of something “hidden.” In our culture’s language, […]
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Healing the Inner Pharisee
Read more: Healing the Inner PhariseeI cannot remember the name of my kindergarten teacher. I cannot remember the names of any of my first grade classmates. However, I have a very vivid memory of the only word I messed up in a first grade reading group: cupboard. I read, “Cup board.” Old Mother Hubbard would have been dismayed. In the […]
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Hope: The Unashamed Virtue
Read more: Hope: The Unashamed VirtueThis past year, my wife and I developed a delightful habit of “Monday’s with Eli.” He is my soon-to-be 5 year-old grandson. He has a nearly 4 month-old baby brother, whose time in the womb was the occasion for our weekly baby-sitting duties. With my retirement, his presence was a new challenge to “find things […]
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The Religious Nature of Modern Life
Read more: The Religious Nature of Modern LifeOn a daily basis, I have become increasingly aware of the “religious” nature of almost the whole of modern life. That might seem to be an odd observation when the culture in which we live largely describes itself as “secular.” That designation, however, only has meaning in saying that the culture does not give allegiance […]
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Yes … “inner person” … 🙂 Thanks so much Fr. Stephen as always.
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Well Fr. Stephen … what you and Fr. Sergei and Solzhenitsyn share seems like very good news. Is it? If…
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