NEW! Opportunities through the Lived Theology School (LTS) program at St John the Compassionate Mission in Toronto Canada. St John the Compassionate Mission is an apostolate of the Carpatho-Russian Diocese. GUEST-WORKER VOLUNTEERS Come alone, or in a group, stay at Lourmel House (LTS), work and pray and share and grow. Accommodation and board provided free. […]
Archives for 2009
Lenten sermon series
No, I am not going to post my Lenten sermon series. But, I will point out that the couple of posts on Christian rudeness that I just finished doing have led me to do my Lenten sermon series on practical Church behaviors. What do I mean? Well, that post on the other blog is now […]
Good Samaritans and waiters/waitresses
This is actually a continuation of the last post because on the other blog, they are already up over 100 comments. One person posted and commented that the people that the New Testament is calling for us to help are the people within the Church, and only if there is enough left over are we […]
Christians, Rudeness, and lack of witness
I am cross posting the following quote from InternetMonk who got it from the blog Prayer Pilgrimage. My daughter, taking a break from her pursuit of a graduate degree, is a server at the Chili’s a few miles down from our house. Like many others her age she is already pretty critical of the church […]
Things are most alike when they are different
Sometimes we get so busy arguing with each other that we fail to realize the similarities in some of our approaches. Let’s take the issue of baptism. Should we baptize infants or should we not? Now, let me tell you ahead of time that I am fully and totally convinced that infant baptism is both […]
Description of too many Christians
Sometimes, the world of fiction gives us descriptions that are more incisive than many a theological description. Read the following excerpt from a fiction book that I am reading. The book is based in very early 20th century England, before WWI. But, see if the description does not actually fit far too many Christians of […]
Power encounters and missionaries
When my wife and I were planning to go to missions, we had to read all the mission literature. At that time, one of the big theories was the “power encounter.” What is the power encounter? Basically, it is a demonstration of God’s power that allows the missionary to overcome the cultural and other resistances […]
The poor teach us
The poor teach us. No, no, no, I am not talking some of the sloppy sentimentality that passes for serious thinking in too much of the Hollywood set. Rather, today I am thinking about the example of a friend of mine. In southern Peru, I was field director of a region. I had two indigenous […]
Fr. Ernesto . . . take off your shoes
Today I had a “take off your shoes” moment. Through an unexpected series of events, I was suddenly invited at the end of last week to go to Kansas City to attend a convocation of people involved in various Orthodox charities. But, even to say “Orthodox charities” is misleading because it lets you picture a […]
Can we tell the difference between religiosity and spirituality?
A fellow blogger described the relationship between depression and the unending search for the right church. But that brought up a slightly different twist in my mind. How do you tell the difference between religiosity and spirituality? Internetmonk well described how depression can lead to an unending search for the Truth. In fact, part of […]
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