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The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom should I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, before whom should I tremble? When evildoers draw near to eat up my flesh, it is they, my enemies and foes, who stumble and fall. Though an army marches against me, my heart will not [...]

OMEHOW THE Exploration of this topic is driving my readership down by half… odd. I guess the more mundane sins and psychological hangups don’t drive traffic as much as sex and, say, the Antiochian Archdemons. Anyway… It’s my journal. I know the Evangelical world has taken the phrase “more than conquerors” (from Romans, Chapter 8) [...]

ERHAPS There is a connection between fear and love in the Greek… I think it has something to do with “being open to God” and “open to other human persons” as discussed in this quote from Bishop Kallistos. In the passage on Fear and Love, on the Love of God and the Love of Brother, [...]

F PERFECT LOVE Drives out all fear, I’ve got a long way to go. At the age of 45 I’m finally getting over my fear of the dark. I was always quite good with dark outside: I can walk through the woods or ride a bike (or scooter) in the countryside. I can even navigate [...]

Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgement, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in [...]

HE ANGLICAN Bishop of Cyberspace (at least by my nomination), Alan Wilson, has made two posts on open communion: Liturgical Terrorism or the Future Intercommunion: Finding a Way Home The Bishop is speaking of communion between Christian bodies, of what happens when Jack the Methodist and Tor the Lutheran and Haagen the Reformed Kirker all [...]