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The Priest’s Wife
Read more: The Priest’s WifeIt is hard to explain to the non-Orthodox the position and role of a priest’s wife. As a priest with an Anglican background, my family life extends to both Protestant and Orthodox experience. I have been married for 40 years and ordained for 35 of those years. I cannot imagine my life or my ministry […]
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Unecumenism – The Saving Union
Read more: Unecumenism – The Saving UnionMy recent articles on the Church drew attention to the topic of union and its importance within the life of the Church – indeed, it is the life of the Church. Orthodox theology, when rightly considered, has a “seamless” quality: everything fits and one thing enlightens another. Perhaps the single most important thread in this seamless […]
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Unecumenism and the Sins of All
Read more: Unecumenism and the Sins of AllThe concept of the One Church shifted during the Reformation. I offer a case in point as well as a reflection on how it changes our current understanding. The old Anglican Book of Common Prayer offers one of the early examples of a subtle shift in Christian thinking and speech. In the Thanksgiving after Communion we […]
Church, Communion, Modernity, Orthodox Christianity, Reflections, The Church, The Sacraments, Union with God
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Consequences of the One Church – Unecumenism
Read more: Consequences of the One Church – UnecumenismIn thinking through a theological question, I often engage in thought experiments. The Fathers might call it a form of theoria, but I won’t presume that word for myself. But what I do is to make a concerted effort to let go of unexamined assumptions. I look at a different set of assumptions and ask, “What if […]
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Un-Ecumenism
Read more: Un-EcumenismI beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect […]
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A Dog’s Best Friend
Read more: A Dog’s Best FriendI would like to suggest that dogs are perhaps the greatest things humans have ever accomplished. If my understanding is correct, dogs are essentially gray wolves, or directly descended from a wolf species, beginning somewhere between 60,000 to 100,000 years ago. At some point they were domesticated by us and used as aids to hunting. It […]
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A Law for All Seasons
Read more: A Law for All SeasonsFrom the screenplay of A Man for all Seasons William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? William Roper: Yes, I’d cut down every law in England to do that! Sir […]
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The Cross as the Way of Life
Read more: The Cross as the Way of LifeOur lives make sense. This may not always seem to be true, but it is. For each of us, there are inner principles that guide our decisions and prioritize our actions. Life is not entirely random. Much of that inner sense of things is not conscious. The day becomes very busy, and we can’t stop and […]
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Math, Reason and Civilization
Read more: Math, Reason and Civilization“If math should suddenly disappear, it would set physics back – a week.” Nobel Prize Winner – Richard Feynman Mathematician’s response: But that week would be the one in which God created the universe. Galileo is said to have remarked that the universe is a wonderful thing, written in the language of mathematics. There is a […]
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The Truth of Mary
Read more: The Truth of MaryIt is a commonplace among Christians to say that “truth is a person.” Of course, this is rightly drawn from Christ’s statement, “I am the way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6). However, most Christians fail to comprehend what it is that they have just said. That truth is a person is more than […]
Doctrine, Incarnation, Knowledge of God, Liturgy, Mother of God, Orthodox Christianity, Reflections, Saints, The Sacraments
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