The Word that leaped
The Wisdom of Solomon is a book you won’t find in most English-language Bibles. But you will find it if you have a Bible with the so-called Deuterocanonical Books. These […]
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Words? Or the Word?
Many of us spend a lifetime, or half a lifetime, thinking that life’s truths lie out there, elsewhere, away from home – far from where we are. But then, some […]
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Thanks to Think About
“What is impossible with men is possible with God,” we heard Jesus say at the conclusion of today’s Gospel reading, the encounter between Jesus and the rich ruler (Luke 18:18-27). […]
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Sunday School Creativity
The older children today explored the theme of Mary as the Khora, the Land of the Uncontainable, inspired by a recent Bible Study and a famous icon in the Church […]
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The Logos plays
A trooper pulls over a priest and immediately smells alcohol on his breath. The next thing he notices is an empty wine bottle lying on the passenger seat. “Have you […]
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The φιλότιμος Samaritan – a Sermon
There are different ways of reading and reacting to today’s Gospel parable of the Good Samaritan. One can feel very inadequate when comparing oneself to the Samaritan. One can feel […]
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Reversal of kingdoms – Sermon
Christianity is often seen as a religion of personal salvation; the religion of “Jesus, my personal Lord and Savior.” Today’s Gospel parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus may be […]
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Intersecting Lives – Sermon, 27 Oct 2019
Psalm 13:5 (LXX) ἐκεῖ ἐδειλίασαν φόβῳ, οὗ οὐκ ἦν φόβος…, translated as: There they dreaded with fear, where there was no fear… I had never read anything like this in […]
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A Prayer of Repentance
A beautiful prayer by John of Dalyatha, from the 8th century, as quoted in The Name of Jesus, by Irénée Hausherr (pages 103-4). This can be a prayer of repentance […]