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Continue Reading...If we fail, we fail because we haven’t taken advantage of the opportunities God has given us in planting the Church in countries and cultures in which not only is the Church NOT established but frequently criticized. Or as Schmemann concludes, “there is nothing in the American culture which could prevent the Church from being fully the Church, a parish truly a parish, and it is only by being fully Orthodox that American Orthodoxy becomes fully American” or Ukrainian or German or Mexican or whatever.
Continue Reading...We are not saved without the renewal of all of creation because human beings are both a microcosm and a macrocosm. To be human means that we are both an image of all creation and that all creation is fulfilled in us.
Continue Reading...My brothers and sisters in Christ! Today God comes in search of you! Go and meet the God Who out of His great love, comes to find you!
Continue Reading...The more I have come to understand that everything I have and do as a priest is not mine but only entrusted to me, the more I find real joy and peace.
Continue Reading...Taking Fr Schmemman’s criticism to heart means that whether I am an Orthodox Christian or not, whether I am a priest or layperson, whether I pray daily or not, I live as if I were an atheist.
Continue Reading...…God in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit transforms our doubt into a deeper faith by revealing not things about Himself but revealing more fully Himself.
Continue Reading...Today and especially in America, Christians imagine ourselves persecuted. While there are times when we are met with prejudice, it is frequently the case that we have brought this on ourselves. Rarely, are we the object of derision because of our fidelity to the Gospel or the witness of the early Church.
Continue Reading...Everything you see is the fruit of not just of Christmas but of that “little flock.” All around us we see the fruit of those in the Old Testament who lived in hope for His coming and those in the New Testament and throughout the history of the Church down to this day and in this place who in faith followed Christ.
Continue Reading...In the American model at least, rugged individualism is not about autonomy as such but your freedom to decide for yourself to which communities you will belong. Historically, religious affiliation, trade or profession, etc., were in greater or lesser measure determined for you by circumstances. The classic example is religion. At the time of the American founding, religious membership in …
Continue Reading...Last week on my Facebook page I posted what I described at the time as a “sincerely offered thought experiment for my friends who support socialism.” The post generated a number of responses. Some good, other less so. A consistent criticism was that the post was the post assumed what one comment called a “dishonest dichotomy” based as it was …
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