Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
As postmoderns, we often criticize Evangelicalism (the particular religion we grew up with). However, all religion has (necessary) stages of growth that mimic human development. All religions can serve the ego and/or the Spirit. I see religion as...
Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
The cross of Christ is much more than just a horrendous method of torturing someone. The cross reveals to us the heart of humanity, rather than the heart of the Father. The cross gives us a picture each and every year of the depths of human depravity and...
Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
gethsemane – nicholas mynheer As our Lenten journey becomes Passion Week and Easter, there is just too much unrest and tragedy in the world for me to simply focus liturgically on the passion of Christ as a sacred event of the past. It was for the world, the...
Mar 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
There can’t be a holier place than the Holy Land, can there? We first visited the land of the Bible nearly twenty years ago, and it was a life-changing trip, 1996. Brian and I had gone on a Christian pilgrimage trip while we were in the midst of building our sanctuary...
Mar 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
There is no formal doctrine in the Orthodox Church concerning the afterlife for animals, including our pets. Those Fathers of the Church who have expressed themselves on this matter were simply expressing theological opinions that have not become universally accepted,...
Mar 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Making peace is what the Gospel is all about. But there are difficult sayings of Jesus that may, on the surface, make it appear otherwise. In this series, I attempt to wrestle a blessing from those sayings, and today, I’d like to focus on a couple that are especially...
