About five months ago I wrote a post called, And the Bishop Cried. In it I reported about our bishop’s reaction to the news that one of my fellow priests, The Very Rev. Fr. Paul Moses, had terminal cancer and was expected to last only four months. He actually lasted five and a half months. […]
On children raised as Christians
Recently Fr. Orthohippo posted: An evangelical is slow to understand how a person could know God (including Jesus) from birth, even if they lapse and leave their faith for a time, and return later. A Catholic or Orthodox wonders how an evangelical can ignore the wisdom and history of the Church and insist on individual […]
What the second professor taught me
Yesterday, I wrote about the influence of one of my seminary professors on my life, and the lessons I learned from him, both about being logical and about knowing the limits of human logic. Today I want to talk about the second professor, Dr. Jerry Flora. He was raised as a good Brethren believer and […]
A tale of two professors
The first seminary I ever attended deeply formed me. [Yes, I have attended more than one seminary.] That seminary was Ashland Theological Seminary in Ashland, OH. There were professors there that I still remember to this day. And, there was an attitude there that I wish to this day that I could replicate in my life. […]
Evangelism and the Orthodox
I work in a mission church. We are short of money. I have been unsuccessfully looking for a job that will allow me to be a priest for a year now with an incredible lack of success. Our mission is running out of money and in less than a year they will not be able […]
The unholy trinity
An evangelical blogger that I read every day just posted an article in which he speaks about the unholy trinity. He says: Someone wrote me the other day using the phrase “the other Trinity,” referring to evangelicals’ obsession with homosexuality, abortion and evolution. All are important issues, but does anyone else have the suspicion that we are […]
To God be the glory
Below is a comment I made on another blog. It had to do with the phrase sola Dei gloria, which means only to God be the glory. ========= Steve, Curtis, Matt, and Jan point out that the Scriptures themselves talk about humans having glory. We are being changed from glory to glory. Glory has come […]
But, what about communion in a time of illness?
Yep, sure enough, the question comes up again. But, Father, should we not change our method of giving the Lord’s Body and Blood since the swine flu is going around? That same question came up when the HIV virus was first identified as causing AIDS. It comes up in the USA every time that something […]
On learning humility
Abba David said, “Abba Arsenius told us the following, as though it referred to someone else, but in fact it referred to himself. An old man was sitting in his cell and a voice came to him which said, ‘Come, and I will show you the works of men.’ He got up and followed. The […]
Two more desert fathers stories
They said of Abba Macarius the Great that he became, as it is written, a god upon earth, because, just as God protects the world, so Abba Macarius would cover the faults which he saw, as though he did not see them; and those which he heard, as though he did not hear them. ========== […]
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