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ITH THANKS To Priest Theodosius Walker, there is a video inside from Archbishop Lazar on fear and the death of compassion. He talks about the fallacy of “loving the sinner but hating the sin”.

ATHER GREGORY Takes us, often, into the the space where theology and science intersect. He does so with a profound respect for science expressed in the language of his faith. Today Fr Gregory reminds (citing St Maximos) that God does not Explain Things; Things Explain God. Last night our community here, in Buffalo, had the [...]

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 [...]

ORDS LIKE THIS Should emanate from every pulpit in America, resulting in revolution. But they won’t. We Americans accept overwork and we accept unbelievable amounts of workplace stress precisely because we don’t think seriously about work and what work means. We don’t want to think about how beaten down we are in the Land of [...]

S TODAY Is the feast of Christ the King – the patronal feast of the Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton as well as the feast of the RC Cathedral here – most of the hymns, this AM, were rather laudatory and muscular, to use the word used by the preacher. One gets the rather masculine image [...]

EEDS TO Be cast out of James Dobson: clearly he has been possessed. I’ve never actually felt the need to say, “yes, but not that kind of a Christian” until today, reading about An Obama administration, in the eyes of Focus on the Family over at Christianity Today. -Churches that refuse to perform same-sex marriages [...]