Synergy in times of uncertainty
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor […]
Posts & Updates
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New Beginnings
“I believe, help my unbelief!” Those could be our words every day, especially in this time of daily fear and uncertainty. Is today the day that I will begin showing […]
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Where Distance Disappears
One member of our church told me the other day that she saw this time of social distancing as a time of retreat with herself. Isn’t that a wonderful way […]
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A Prayer in a Time of Sorrow
We are living in a time of sorrow. Italy and several other countries are being ravaged by the Coronavirus and people are living in fear. Many parts of our country […]
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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. […]
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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 […]