Dec 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
I am in a constant need of saving. There is often a longing in me to step outside of the “things I know,” as in the way the Bible explains God and man, etc., and look at the plainer truth of what I see. When I study cultures, religions, and the histories of man I see...
Nov 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Peace and Joy; Fear and Anger Peace and joy are the default emotional statuses of the flourishing human being, where we are intended to live in communion with God and other people. But there are other God-given emotional states that alert us to danger and...
Nov 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
1. Now the black community was coming near to Jesus to listen to Him and seek his justice on their behalf. 2. But the white privileged folks began to grumble, saying, “All lives matter.” 3. So Jesus told them this parable, saying, 4. “What man among you, if there are...
Nov 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Elder Porphyrios once asked a pilgrim visiting him: — Do you know the troparion that begins, “We celebrate the slaying of death …”? — Yes, elder, I know it. — Then say it. —“We celebrate the slaying of death, the destroying of hell, the beginning of another way of...
Nov 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
