There have been lots of news for the last several years of both law enforcement officers being killed and law enforcement officers inappropriately killing civilians. If you were to watch any, and all, of the cable news, you would say that the rate of killings of both law enforcement officers and by law enforcement officers […]
So, it is Summer!
“However, the report went around concerning Him all the more; and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by Him of their infirmities. So, He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed,” (Luke 5:15-16). There are many Scriptures that speak of Our Lord Jesus withdrawing to pray. All the Evangelists, in […]
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
If you cannot preach like Peter, if you cannot pray like Paul, you can tell the love of Jesus and say, “He died for all.” — Hymn, There Is A Balm in Gilead “Love can be sacrificial, and in so doing, it becomes redemptive.” — Bishop Michael Bruce Curry OK, I admit to being a bit of an […]
Depends on how one defines “once saved always saved.”
The term “once saved always saved” is used frequently among various–but not all–Evangelicals in English-speaking countries. The concept, however, is treated in one of two ways. While the Orthodox would agree with neither way, it may surprise you to learn that we would be closer to the way once-saved-always-saved is used in the T.U.L.I.P acrostic […]
New Embassy in Jerusalem, yes!
I just watched the opening of the USA Embassy in Jerusalem. It is a move with which I agree. I am not the only socially progressive person to also agree. I listened with interest to a Congressman who is a Bernie Sanders backer who also agreed with the move. I know that the USA has […]
On war and healing
The Opposite of War is Not Peace — What the Orthodox Byzantines retained was an older Greek notion that war inevitably damages the soul. Even in a just cause, in self-defense or to protect innocents, participation in war still harms the soul in some measure. And so I came to the realization that the Byzantine […]
Memorial Day is coming up
For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres, There is […]
Allegory, one of the correct ways to interpret Scripture
“The birth of Isaac was, of course, an absolute absurdity. The notion that a 100-year-old man and his 90-year-old wife, who have never had a child in the course of their long married life, should bear a son, and to place the hopes of the whole future of mankind on this child! According to all […]
Jesus is not a northern European
The video above made me laugh quite a lot. Though there is some exaggeration, in that Jesus is unlikely to have been black, nevertheless, it is true that Jesus’ skin color would not have been northern European white. In 2015, a forensic anthropologist, named Richard Neave, reconstructed a possible typical Semitic face of the time […]
Christians are called to be fully pro-life without declaring one part to be more important than another
101. The other harmful ideological error is found in those who find suspect the social engagement of others, seeing it as superficial, worldly, secular, materialist, communist or populist. Or they relativize it, as if there are other more important matters, or the only thing that counts is one particular ethical issue or cause that they […]
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