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Authority: Answers Without Questions
Read more: Authority: Answers Without QuestionsWe imagine that life is made up of questions seeking answers. The opposite is also true: life is often made up of answers seeking questions. More troublesome than this are pseudo answers seeking questions, for the questions created by pseudo answers are inevitably pseudo questions. This, I suggest, goes far in describing the landscape of […]
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The Bible and the Spirit of Democracy
Read more: The Bible and the Spirit of DemocracyMy first introduction to ancient writings was in my Classical Greek classes my freshman year of college. Most of those were tortuous exercises filled with the rules of a foreign grammar. My friends laughed at how hard and long I labored in those studies. With time, however, the work began to yield pleasure as the […]
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The Grammar of the Faith
Read more: The Grammar of the FaithRecent studies have documented the fact that we begin to acquire language from our earliest moments. Even the babbling of infants plays a role. Sounds, words, facial expressions – all have a part in perhaps the most complex of all human activities. As we learn to speak, we not only learn words and sounds, but […]
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The Church and the Scriptures
Read more: The Church and the ScripturesMy recent articles on the place of the Scriptures, their relationship with the Church, and the proper manner it which they are to be regarded have drawn more than a little comment (and some fire) including on other blogsites. In this article I want to take time to answer some specific points and to add some further […]
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Grace and the Handbasket
Read more: Grace and the HandbasketA difficulty arises when making cultural observations – things rarely turn out as expected. The Roman Empire fell once upon a time, although the fall wasn’t nearly as clean and final as Gibbons imagined and it wasn’t really the Roman Empire that fell. But ever since the “Roman Empire fell” people have been rehearsing the lessons […]
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Has Your Bible Become A Quran?
Read more: Has Your Bible Become A Quran?Those who engage in debates on a regular basis know that the argument itself can easily shape the points involved. This is another way of saying that some debates should be avoided entirely since merely getting involved in them can be the road to ruin. There are a number of Christian scholars (particularly among the Orthodox) […]
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There Is No “Bible” in the Bible
Read more: There Is No “Bible” in the BibleThere are certain ideas that, once introduced, tend to change how people think of everything else. This is certainly the case with the Bible. For of all the ideas about the Scripture, the most recent is the notion of “the Bible.” The word “Bible” simply means “book.” Thus, it is a name that means “the […]
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Singing the Lord’s Song
Read more: Singing the Lord’s SongIn my first parish as an Anglican priest, I approached my first Midnight Mass with eager anticipation. I was trained “High Church,” with a very traditional liturgical emphasis – but I was serving in a “Low Church” parish. I was the first priest in their history to wear Eucharistic vestments as a normal practice. But […]
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Suffering and a Good Death
Read more: Suffering and a Good DeathI read recently that people with ADD were far more likely to develop dementia in their old age. I read a few days later that people who had taken a certain medication for longer than a short period were far more likely to develop Alzheimers. I was on the medication for 12 years (and I […]
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A Hiatus for Grief
Read more: A Hiatus for GriefI have been working on an article this week but with little satisfaction. On Tuesday afternoon, my newborn granddaughter, Anna Kathryn Freeman, fell asleep in the Lord after a four-day struggle in the hospital here in Knoxville. It has been a very difficult week. Our family is gathering for the funeral and to support one […]
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The three dimensional Cross existed well before Descartes’ ideation. It lies within all reality as a mystery we barely discern.
Indeed, we have a small sliver of the Cross in our Greek Orthodox parish, which we venerated. Father, I hope…
Thanks so much for the explanation Fr. Stephen.
Matthew, It commemorates the Finding of the True Cross by the Empress St. Helena in the 4th century. The Church…
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