God and guns? Nationalism and idolatry in the American church – Walter Brueggemann
Is There Room for Capital Punishment in our Theology of the Cross? Christian Hollums
Is There Room for Capital Punishment in our Theology of the Cross It is easier for a feeble straw to resist a mighty fire than for the nature of sin to resist the power of love. We must cultivate this love in our souls, that we may take our place with all the saints,...
Review of ‘The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor’ — by Brad Jersak
The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor Edited by Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil Oxford University Press, 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor is the most recent in the Oxford Handbooks series, and as usual, provides...
Exorcising War (& Kenotic Reading of Scripture) – Metropolitan George of Mount Lebanon
By Metropolitan George of Mount Lebanon Metropolitan George, of the Patriarchate of Antioch, lives in Beirut, Lebanon. The text is abridged from Sourozh, magazine of the Russian Patriarchal Diocese of Sourozh, Great Britain. The translation from the French is by...
Creating a New Gospel & Justifying Killing – Oddney Gumaer
This woman, she is a Muslim. She loves her baby too. Over the Years I have made some Muslim friends. Some of them like spicy food. Some don’t. Some of them listen to rap, others to classical music. Some of them are good at the times tables. Some of them suck. Some of...
Chris Hoke – Leaving Club Church, Finding the Jesus Movement in Solitary Confinement
Assessing the religious social club that "nones and dones" are leaving in contrast to the dynamic ekklesia/movement Jesus is leading. Christ is Love Incarnate, showing up even in the solidarity confinement of America's supermax prisons. Chris Hoke is the...
Chris Hoke: What is Church? A Jesus Movement Invading Hades
"If we don't know where the gates of hades are, no wonder the church doesn't know where the church is going ... The church is a movement with a downward arrow, following Jesus from heaven into the realm of death." "The story of Lazarus'...
Permit Me to Hope – Sinner Irenaeus
“That is all I ask of Orthodoxy—to permit me to hope.” — Fr. Aiden Kimel After a decade of catechesis and struggle under the guidance of my spiritual father, Archbishop Lazar Puhalo, and godfather, David Goa, I was chrismated into the Orthodox Church in 2013. To...
The Big Picture – ISIS, NATO and Russia — D.L. Jones
The Big Picture - ISIS, NATO and Russia -- D.L. Jones The civilized world, especially those in the West and in Russia, is disgusted by and extremely angry about the recent terrorist acts of radical militant Muslims in Mali,...
Fasting from the Anti-Christ, Feasting on Love – Eden Jersak
I know that we’re in the Advent Season, but I think I’m going to fast as if it’s Lent instead. What was at first comical, amusing, and just plain silly, has become so abhorrent that I have to look away and stop listening and watching “the show.” I remember as a child...