Today is a car travel day as I return home. May the Lord bless all of you and prepare you for the Lord’s Day. For today, I will simply include a copy of Metropolitan Jonah’s message for Sanctity of Life Sunday. It is one of the most balanced pro-life messages that I have seen. === […]
Archives for 2009
The Orthodox and icons
I was recently asked a question concerning art and Christianity. I made some comments in a couple of e-mails. I reprint those e-mails here, having removed all identifying information, and having done some mild editing because I think it expresses a small part of what icons are to us. ===== The Eastern Orthodox do tend […]
Please Lord, do not let me repeat today!
Have you ever had one of those days where it seems as though the words in your mouth as you go to sleep are the simple prayer, “Please Lord, do not let me repeat today!”? Well, yesterday was certainly one of those days for me. I am on a trip to one of my diocese’s […]
Lack of theological discipleship: casualties by friendly fire
Thesis: We have the tendency, left without theological discipleship and accountability, to make God into who we think he ought to be. When that version of him fails, it is not as if the true version has failed, but only the version we created. Therefore, we have not really left God in a proper sense, […]
How do you handle ethical conflicts?
On the blog that I love to read, there is a discussion on ethics. No, not on ethics, per se, but on disagreeing charitably. It is quite a good set of thoughts and I posted the response below on that blog. But, in discussing ethical conflicts, I wondered whether the author had gotten caught in […]
Let the healing begin…again
Let the healing begin! Today is the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Literally millions of people have descended on Washington, DC. The attention of most of the USA is on Washington today, as is the attention of many of the world’s government. At noon today, a new President will take his oath of office. Yes, […]
Letter from Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King
In honor of this year’s Martin Luther King day and in honor of President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration tomorrow, I am posting a copy of the letter Rev. King wrote when he was being held in the Birmingham Jail. ======= 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I […]
A small non-charismatic aside
Because of a couple of questions, let me take a moment for a little aside before I return to my being a no-longer-teenage charismatic. It has been mentioned that first I say that Radical Reformation Protestants and Calvinists form part of the philosophical background of today’s progressive/liberal Christians and then I say that extreme ecstatics […]
I am a no-longer-teenage Orthodox charismatic
When I first began to serve the Lord, as an older teenager, I returned to Christianity through a charismatic group. Actually, at first through a Pentecostal group, but that was of very short duration. I do know that out of that hothouse situation came a life-long desire to experience the Lord. Mind you, I am […]
