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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 …
Continue Reading...Though our sacrifices our different, our calling is the same; To witness to Christ. And just as we have a shared vocation, we have a shared joy.
Continue Reading...In the early Church, pagan authorities would ask Christians to offer a grain on incense to the gods. Sometimes,as it Maccabees, believers were to merely pretend to do so. Many made the compromise but many didn’t and were martyred. Many of my Christian friends worry about a coming persecution of believers. But what if the problem in front of us …
Continue Reading...To say, as we do, that salvation is found in the Church is to say that salvation begins the Church. The life of the Church is not the goal of life in Christ but only the starting point.
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