Faith for others
Indeed, which is easier to say? Your sins are forgiven? Or, Rise, take up your stretcher and walk? (Mark 2:1-12) It’s an open, rhetorical question. Jesus does not answer it. […]
Posts & Updates
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St. John Chrysostom writes from Exile
Among the many letters of St. John Chrysostom the most famous are the letters he wrote to the deaconess Olympia after he was exiled from Constantinople in the year 404. […]
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The Therapeutic Joy of Purim
The Jewish feast of Purim celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from the attempt by the Persian king to kill all Jews in the Persian Empire. His plan was […]
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The Bible in the Marketplace
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth…and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:1-13) The Orthodox Church reads these opening words of the Bible on the […]
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Take Lent “lentement”
In 2nd Peter chapter 3 we read: But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years […]
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No Goats Here
Here is a parable Jesus did not speak – at least not in the Gospels. But which he could have spoken. I came upon it in a book I’ve had […]
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Pre-Lenten Lessons
Jesus was frequently criticised for hanging out with prostitutes, tax collectors and other sinners. He was never criticised for going to dinner in the homes of Pharisees – which he […]
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The mission of the wounded healer
One word and one word only best describes the attitude of the Pharisee in the parable we hear today. One word: contempt. The Pharisee had nothing but contempt for the […]
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Three Dimensions of Life
People call themselves “spiritual” who don’t follow any particular religion and sometimes don’t even believe in God. It is a good thing to be spiritual and to know oneself as […]
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With the inner eye
February 2nd is the feast of The Meeting of the Lord – also known as the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. But it was a meeting; a meeting between […]