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Your Weakness Saves You 27 Aug 2013 | 05:43 am
It is counter-intuitive that God saves man through His own weakness. The irony of the Divine Reversal has provided endless material for the hymnographers of the Church through the centuries: the Stron...
God’s Absence on the Cross 23 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” The cry of Christ on the Cross, quoting Psalm 22, could also be the cry of modern man in his daily life. We generally experience the world as a place devoi...
The Presence in Absence 20 Aug 2013 | 06:37 am
There is a strange aspect to the presence of God in the world around us. That aspect is His apparent absence. I read with fascination (because I am no philosopher, much less a scientist) the discussio...
The Secret Hand of God 18 Aug 2013 | 01:33 am
Now Moses built an altar and called its name The-Lord-My-Refuge; for with a secret hand the Lord wars with Amalek from generation to generation (Exodus 17:16 LXX). After a number of decades as a Chr...
Beyond a Purpose-Driven Life 14 Aug 2013 | 12:23 am
Americans are known to be “practical” people. Historically, our culture has seen problems, defined them, set goals and achieved results. Though the mechanics of this simple approach seem to have broke...
Get Out of Your Mind! 10 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
I am not certain at what point modern Christians began to believe that “spiritual” and “mental” were the same thing. I know that it is a commonplace to interpret John 4:24 (“God is Spirit, and those w...
The Death of God and the Transfiguration of Man 5 Aug 2013 | 09:10 pm
Among the most lucid Orthodox thinkers in the contemporary world is Fr. John Behr, Dean of St. Vladimir’s Seminary. I recently listened to him for several days during a conference in Florida. He has a...
No Wedding Vows 27 Jul 2013 | 06:30 am
Few things differ more clearly between Eastern and Western Christianity than the service of Holy Matrimony. There are things found in Western Christian Marriage ceremonies that cannot be found in the ...
Back to the Future 23 Jul 2013 | 09:35 pm
History is tyranny. A seemingly inescapable part of human life is its history (and the baggage it brings with it). So much that shapes our identity: language, culture, economics, health, personality ...
My Daughter’s Blog 23 Jul 2013 | 06:41 am
Yesterday I wrote on “My Daddy’s Demon.” It’s refreshing to title this short note, “My Daughter’s Blog.” Readers will have seen the guest post my daughter, Matushka Mary Holste wrote a month or more b...
