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No More Debt
Read more: No More DebtIt is a situation that has become all too familiar: overwhelming debt that cannot be repaid. It is an image that the Scriptures know full well. But it is a situation that is easily seen from two sides – and only one of them belongs to God. The two sides are simple: the one who owes […]
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Christ Is Risen!
Read more: Christ Is Risen!Pascha has begun… if you listen carefully, you can begin to hear the bells sounding from the East. Christ is risen! This delightful youtube video is a favorite of mine. One of our readers and an occasional commenter, Dejan, (without a doubt my favorite Serb) provided the English translation. The words are from a poem […]
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Good Friday and the Irony of Believing
Read more: Good Friday and the Irony of BelievingIrony is probably too much to ask of youth. If I can remember myself in my college years, the most I could muster was sarcasm. Irony required more insight. There is a deep need for the appreciation of irony to sustain a Christian life. Our world is filled with contradiction. Hypocrisy is ever present even […]
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The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Read more: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and EvilThere is a death that leads to death and there is a death that leads to life. In them are hidden the meaning of all things. As we approach Pascha, I continue to marvel at St. John’s description of Christ in Revelation 13, as the “Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” It is […]
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The Mystical Reality of Holy Week
Read more: The Mystical Reality of Holy WeekAs we journey through Holy Week… For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we […]
Holy Week, Knowledge of God, Liturgy, Mystical Theology, Orthodox Christianity, Pascha, Reflections, The Sacraments, Time, Union with God
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Get Out of Hell Free
Read more: Get Out of Hell FreeThe Saturday before Palm Sunday is known as Lazarus Saturday among the Orthodox, and they celebrate Christ raising him from the dead just prior to His entrance into Jerusalem (gospel of John). It is a feast that offers something of a preview of Christ’s resurrection, and a foretaste of the General Resurrection at the End of the […]
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Saving A Democratic Man
Read more: Saving A Democratic ManEverywhere he goes, he meets his equals. All of the world is open to him, bidding him enter in, take what he wants and go his way. Early on he learns to negotiate his way through competing crowds of others, jostling for position, asking for attention, making his way forward. His direction is a matter […]
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A Lesser Atonement
Read more: A Lesser AtonementIt has long been known that people tend to see what they think they are seeing. This is particularly the case where what we think is familiar and expected. The case of “mistaken identity” flows from our assumptions and expectations. This is no where more true than when we are reading Scripture. If a passage […]
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Our Conciliar Salvation
Read more: Our Conciliar SalvationI 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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Come Join Me for a Retreat in San Francisco
Read more: Come Join Me for a Retreat in San FranciscoI will be speaking at the Lenten Retreat in San Francisco at Joy of All Who Sorrow Cathedral this coming weekend. My topic will be “Running on Empty in the Abundant Life.” I am greatly looking forward to meeting the faithful in the Bay Area and participating in the life of one of the great […]
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