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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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Music to Die For
Read more: Music to Die ForLiving in the South, I am confronted with the reality of American Country music whether I want it or not. Of course, I’m confronted with all of the other genres as well, though Classical and Jazz seem to be less ubiquitous than Rap and Country. However, I was making my way through a public venue […]
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Healing the Heart
Read more: Healing the HeartThe heart itself is but a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and there are also lions; there are poisonous beasts and all the treasures of evil. But there too is God, the angels, the life and the kingdom, the light and the apostles, the heavenly cities and the treasuries of grace—all things are there. […]
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A Noetic Life
Read more: A Noetic LifeThe Native Peoples of Alaska and the far north really do have over 50 words for snow. In total, there are around 180 words for snow and ice. There is “aqilokoq” for “softly falling snow” and “piegnartoq” for “the snow [that is] good for driving a sled.” There is also “utuqaq,” which means, “ice that lasts […]
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The Cross of Christ and God’s Love
Read more: The Cross of Christ and God’s LoveGod is love; and the Holy Cross is nothing other than God’s love. Love has the character of the cross. The power, fire, and nature of love consist in the fact that love has the character of the cross; and there is no love that does not have the character of the cross. The cross […]
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The Perpetual Catechumen
Read more: The Perpetual CatechumenIt should not surprise us to learn that we are often creatures of the culture in which we live. We understand this, particularly when we travel and encounter people whose culture differs profoundly from our own. What seems obvious to us, might seem obscure to them. What we eat, how we shop, what counts as […]
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Holly, I think surely you’re correct – love above all else. It explains why the outcasts (those whom society loves…