Here’s my new book…
Available both in paper and as an e-book.
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What does matter is that you commit to not lying, to not doing what you know to be morally wrong.
Continue Reading...Together with baptism, a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is the starting point of our life in Christ.
Continue Reading...It’s better to think of your priest not as a spiritual father along the monastic lines but as a coach.
Continue Reading...… in the hands of an inexperienced or ill-prepared priest, obedience is a recipe for great and lasting harm for the layperson, the parish and the priest himself.
Continue Reading...…we corrupt families and parishes, when we make monastic life the model for our life in Christ.
Continue Reading...Orthodox Christians tend to overemphasize the therapeutic nature of salvation at the expense of our own moral and legal tradition.
Continue Reading...Here’s the video of my talk earlier this month in Grand Rapids. It was sponsored by the Alliance of Orthodox Christians, a non-profit Orthodox lay ministry devoted to lay spiritual formation and catechesis.
Continue Reading...…too many Orthodox Christians have bought into the idea God’s love for them means God wants them to be happy and successful on their terms rather than His. We usually don’t say this explicitly.
Continue Reading...While culture is important, even under the best of conditions it is always only nominally Christian. The reason for this is that culture–all cultures–is always a mix of different traditions.
Continue Reading...While religious education and apologetics are both important, we need to be careful that we don’t confuse saying things which are true with “speaking the truth in love.”
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