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The Kingdom of Choice
Read more: The Kingdom of ChoiceThis is a slightly edited version of a post from last June. I plan to use it as an introduction to a series on the choices we make – and don’t make. Part of the spiritual landscape of American religion is the sizable role played by choice in a culture shaped in the free market – with […]
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A Note of Thanks and Some Statistics
Read more: A Note of Thanks and Some StatisticsOne of my personal joys at the recent All American Council in Pittsburgh was the opportunity to meet face-to-face a number of readers of this blog, including some who regularly post comments. Their warmth and encouragement for the writing that I do is about all it takes to keep me writing. That, and a whole lot […]
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Cynicism and the Goodness of God
Read more: Cynicism and the Goodness of GodI admit to being a child of the 60’s (which means I was born in the early 50’s). I have lived through a period in American history marked by assasinations, abuse of power, incompetence and unrelenting and outrageous pieties from the lips of the impious. As such, like many in my generation, I am tempted […]
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What Is the Truth?
Read more: What Is the Truth?In the Gospel record of Christ’s trial before Pontius Pilate, we are told that Christ said He had come to bear witness to the Truth. Pilate, in what he must have thought was a clever response, says, “And what is Truth?” We know from elsewhere in the Gospel that Christ explained, “I am the Way, […]
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Axios! Axios! Axios!
Read more: Axios! Axios! Axios!As a personal rule of thumb, I do not write on the inner news of the Church – or at least not often. I have been in attendance this week at the All American Council, the national assembly of the Orthodox Church in America. One of the central tasks before us was the election of a […]
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The Creation and the Christian
Read more: The Creation and the ChristianThis week I am in Pittsburgh for the All American Council of the Orthodox Church in America. We have many difficult things to deal with and I ask your prayers. I will try to work with the blog as I have time. Today I offer some thoughts of Met. Kallistos Ware, who led the pilgrimage […]
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Faces in the Dark
Read more: Faces in the DarkOne of the finest short contemporary classics of Orthodox spiritual writing is Tito Colliander’s Way of the Ascetics. The following excerpt is from his “Chapter Thirteen: On Progress in Depth.” THE external rudiments lead us now to the welfare that goes on in the depths. As when one peels an onion, one layer after […]
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The Death of Religion
Read more: The Death of ReligionIn August of 2007 I wrote an article on Christian Atheism. At the time I was seeking to describe the strange phenomenon of modern Christianity – one in which life as we live it and life as we say we believe it are two separate things. This is not a problem of hypocrisy but of […]
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A Single Moment and Paradise – Revisited
Read more: A Single Moment and Paradise – RevisitedI am leading a retreat this coming weekend at another parish in Tennessee. I have interiorly entitled the retreat, “Are We Not in Paradise?” The thoughts are on the immediacy of Christ and heaven – so wonderfully described in the passage quoted here from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. It is a passage that is never […]
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In the Normal Course of Things
Read more: In the Normal Course of ThingsThere is an expectation that most of us share – at least in its general shape – and that is that the normal course of things will largely remain the normal course of things. Each day much like another and though changes occur they are often of an occasional or casual nature. There are certain […]
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