“Churching the Nation: Sharing the Orthodox Faith in America” near Atlanta on May 26
Category: Mission
No True Church? No True Church History.
One of the criticisms of Orthodoxy’s understanding of its own history (not to mention, Roman Catholicism’s) is that there really is no unbroken Christian tradition of anything at all, that Church history is really just about multiple movements, doctrines and practices that cannot coherently be traced back to the Apostles. This is essentially one version of the historiography of the anti-ecclesiologists. If there is…
Orthodoxy at the Emmys
Not that I watch awards shows more than perhaps once every five years or so (and I didn’t see this one, either), but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this is the first time that Orthodox Christian monastic enclave Mount Athos was mentioned in an Emmy speech. This is Jonathan Jackson winning his fifth Emmy. Readers may recall my…
Why can’t God love me the way I am?
One of the perhaps most pressing theological questions of our time and place is answered beautifully in this post from Jim John Marks: The question is not “why can’t God love me the way I am”, the question is “why can’t I love God the way I am”. And it is the pursuit of the answer to that question which opens the door to…
Saving the World from Suicide: Localism, Christian Evangelism and the Culture War
Speaking Engagement May 16, 2012, in Harrisburg, PA
Una Sancta: Fundamentalism, Ecumenism and the One True Church
From General Hospital to the Hospital of Souls: Interview with Jonathan Jackson
