Those of you who read this blog know that some of my favorite modern authors are G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis. There is a reason why they are some of my favorites. All three of them majored in the concept of thinking Christianly. Now, that is not a term that is in the […]
Sunday of the Geneology 2009
Today is what is called the “Sunday of the Genealogy” in Eastern Orthodoxy. Today is the Sunday before Christmas, the Sunday in which we read the genealogy of Christ from the Gospel according to Matthew. We are not the only ones who read one of the genealogies before Christmas. More than one Christian group does. […]
You had better practice what you trumpet!
From yesterday’s post, Fr. Huw made the following comment: But this only attacks half the problem… if there is a place where our (and I speak in the first person here, on purpose) hypocrisy haunts us most, it’s in our trumpeting of “one right set of doctrines” when paralleled with our self-righteousness. Essentially we say […]
The wrong sort of Mere Christianity
Yesterday I received a comment on an older blog post that said that all the Orthodox that this person had met were hypocrites. Of course, I was at first tempted to answer with either snappy comebacks or with philosophical comebacks or by re-defining the term. I finally wrote that I had no way to disprove […]
Fools for Christ
Before I became Orthodox, I had heard several sermons about someone being foolish in the eyes of the world in order to serve God. The Scripture most often quoted was from Saint Paul: Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that […]
An incredibly good question
The note below is from the New York Times, from an opinion blog posted there. A fellow priest noticed this article and posted it on his Facebook page. Father Orthoduck found the question asked in the blog to be quite insightful as well and thought he would pass it on. Father Orthoduck encourages you to […]
We have met the enemy and he is us, part 02
. . . drop themselves into the sea. The final enemy is the one to which we tend to historically pay the least attention, and that is the flesh. And here is the key to what kept the monastics and the Amish from straying into the legalism and the lack of balance of the separatist […]
We have met the enemy and he is us, part 01
I have been talking about the Anabaptists–or at least those descended from the English Separatists–and the early monastics. I have mentioned how the monastics were kept from falling into the same trap as the Anabaptists. But, let me put it another way that may help you to see it better, and it has to do […]
How monks avoided becoming fundamentalists
Yesterday I asked the question about why the early Christian monks did not fall into the trap of the modern separatist fundamentalists. After all, if you read Church history, the monastic movement started from some of the same concerns the Anabaptists had about the purity of the Church and the failure of Christians to practice, […]
Why some fundamentalists need to study history!
Church Plans To Burn Bibles, Christian Books Pastor Says Burning Meant To Light A Fire Under True Believers CANTON, N.C. — A North Carolina pastor says his church plans to burn Bibles and books by Christian authors on Halloween to light a fire under true believers. Pastor Marc Grizzard told Asheville TV station WLOS that […]
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