... and Heterodoxy have been posted recently. You can read them here: The Hair-Shirt Agenda On Behalf of All Also, for those who don't ... my posts on Facebook and Google+, you may be interested to know that I am currently at work on a new book (title to be announced later) on ...
... width="540" caption="This document was ratified by the British Parliament on Dec. 11, 1936"][/caption] December 11, 2011 In the ... gloryâ? How can you and I appear in glory? I donât know about you, but my day-to-day life is not really one in which the word ...
... width="568.8" caption="Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (by John Martin)"][/caption] October 9, ... fundamentalism that they would never consider eventually acknowledging him as a colleague. I asked him why he was there, since he knew he ... in an empire that is becoming more and more hostile to the Gospel. This time it is not paganism, however, but secular fundamentalism. ...
... Sunday After Pentecost, August 21, 2011 In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. ... His beyond the Twelve who were commissioned to bring the Gospel to the world. Thaddeus, whose feast day is today, was originally from ... an imprint of His countenance. That cloth has come to be known as the âIcon Made Without Handsâ or the âHoly Napkin,â and it has ...
... was recently passed on a question by my grandmother from some of my non-Orthodox relations who live out in the mountains of ... whether, in my preaching, there is room for a "personal Gospel." I must be honest that I don't know exactly what that phrase means, but I cannot imagine they are asking ...
... Elizabeth as she speaketh with the Virgin Mary: Wherefore art thou, the Mother of my Lord, come unto me? Thou ... festal commemoration is the birth of John the Forerunner, known to most English speakers as John the Baptist, which is narrated for us in the first chapter of Luke's Gospel. A major thematic element for today is the Voice. Zachariah, not ...
... align="alignright" width="205" caption="The Women at the Grave of Christ and the Ascension of Christ"][/caption]The ... all of us to âcome to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of ... Light that illumines the darkness. Truly, as the Gospel reading says to us today, âthe people who sat in darkness have seen a ...
... width="600" caption="Emmaus, Autumn 2010"][/caption] The following is Part VI (the conclusion) of a talk I gave on April 2nd at the ... If you spend any time around me at all, you will know that I love Emmaus. Itâs a beautiful place to be during all the seasons ...
... id="" align="alignright" width="278" caption="The Exile from Paradise"][/caption]The following is Part III of a talk I gave ... village,â but if so, then it is a village where no one knows each otherâs names and where no one sees each other, yet we trade bits ...
... width="220" caption="St. Irenaeus of Lyons, the Gnostic's least favorite guy"][/caption] I sometimes encounter folks who ... the SBNR are those who are often likely to respond to the Gospel not so much with outright rejection but rather with "Sure, ... of private revelation and opinion over corporate knowledge and tradition. It is also essentially Protestant, in that its basic ...
... align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The Lion of St. Mark, from the Echternach Gospels (8th c.)"][/caption] The Sunday of Forgiveness, March 6, 2011 In the ... hear his name, they have no idea who he is. But they know that he is coming, and with him, comes the springtime. In most languages, ...
... align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The Publican and the Pharisee"][/caption] In the Name of the Father and of the ... Ever since Adam and Eve thought to themselves, âYou know what? We like our way better than Godâs way,â human beings have not ... put ourselves first? Why does the Pharisee in todayâs Gospel pray âwith himself,â âGod, I thank Thee that I am not like other ...
... align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The Baptism of Christ in the Jordan River"][/caption] In the name of the Father ... No one who lives in the endless Twelfth Night can know who he is, because the whole world is designed to deny it and keep it ... St. John the Baptist, called John the Forerunner. In the Gospel account, John is baptizing people in the River Jordan when he sees Jesus ...
The following is a recycled post from my previous weblog, originally posted in October ... to questions of eternal significance. What I didn't know was that that statement would reveal that I "live in la-la land." ... in the next. That's been true from the beginning of the Gospel's preaching. But what really astounds is that this is a hard sell even ...
... align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The Church of the Dormition, Jerusalem"][/caption] Holy Dormition, August 15, ... yet how often do we find ourselves saying, âI donât know how I lived without thatâ? Today letâs spend a few moments thinking about attention and how we divide and focus it. The Gospel reading which is appointed for this Great Feast of the Virgin Mary, her ...
... width="150" caption=" "][/caption] Both parts of my talk "The Worship of God" are now available via Ancient Faith Radio here and here as ... were not Christians at all or only had minimal Christian knowledge. I move from there to the height of Christian worship—the ...
... id="" align="alignright" width="299" caption="The great lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson, who it is said was once asked how ... in this case, specifically by encouraging them to look at knowledge as something that is not mainly information but participation. This ...
... of the Forefathers of Christ, December 13, 2009 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen ... Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. If you follow the news, you know that this past week and in this coming week, the city of Copenhagen, ... possessions, which has been highlighted for us in many Gospel readings lately and is so visible before us at this time of year. The ...
... Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick Emmaus, Pennsylvania In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. ... The machine thus spoke for itself, and made known the fact that it was the phonograph.â Though no one probably realized ... encounter with Jesus as told by St. Luke in his Gospel describes a man with just such a dedication to objects over communion. ...
... the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. ... for a nation and culture who thirst for true knowledge of reality, we have a curious hesitation when it comes to using the ... âacceptable.â Yet it is not so much Christ and the Gospel which became âacceptable,â but rather that Christians bought into ...