Jul 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
The Recovery of Love: Four Contemporary Mystics Address our Contemporary Crisis of Intimacyby Jeff Imbach (Fresh Wind Press, 2005). from page 82-83 It was common in the Christian circles in which I grew up to reduce love to a discussion of the distinctions between the...
Jul 21, 2006 | Uncategorized
"[I]n every work of God there is mercy and justice, so, as they presuppose one another. And as in his created Elements, so in these there is a condensing and rarifying, by which they become and grow into one another. For often that action which was principally...
Jul 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
A while ago, I started getting frustrated with some of the things that I was hearing people saying about people with disabilities. I didn’t like hearing people in my community referred to as “residents” or “the disabled”. These are my friends. These...
Jul 19, 2006 | Uncategorized
This past Easter, by the Orthodox calendar, I attended my first Eastern Orthodox Midnight Mass. It was a splendid celebration, adorned with many candles, icons, robes and multi-lingual shouts of "He is risen / Truly He is risen." The fifty-some pages of...
Jul 19, 2006 | Uncategorized
Andy’s Letter An unpublished novel by me treats of violence and nonviolence as a major theme with hell a subtheme. It is entitled Chrysalis Crucible, and tells the story of a young evangelist’s coming of age on the short-term mission field in West Berlin. The...
Jul 13, 2006 | Uncategorized
My fellow Americans: Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor. This evening I come to you...
