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WHOLENESS – AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE Bishop Kallistos Ware Excerpts from an interviewed in Parabola Magazine, February 1985 In the Orthodox spiritual tradition we often use the word “heart.” By heart we mean not just the emotions or feelings but the deep center, the true self. Our aim is to discover the place of the [...]

Proverbs 1:20-33 Wisdom of Solomon 7:26 – 8:1 Isaiah 50:4-9a Psalm 116:1-9 James 3:1-12 Mark 8:27-38 Year B, Proper 19 (24), Revised Common Lectionary God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom. Whenever we start to read the Wisdom passages of the Bible we cross a gender line. I use that [...]

N AN EXTENDED Discussion of my earlier post on the Outlaw Preachers and the *real* problem in American Evangelical theology, a reader on facebook via network blogs asked, I’m afraid my current job has ruined me for contemplation of a pure idea. I’m reading “Orthopraxy…Consuming Fire…burning off the dross…” and thinking “ok, what would happen [...]

ERE’S A Short film (shared by Joshua on his FB) explaining an Eastern Christian response to the rather common question, “Are you Saved?”

HE HIPPEST (Most Hip?) Theological war to hit the Emerging Church and several parallel groups is – of course – Teh Gay. Do a google on outlaw preachers, or take a look on twitter for the same thing. There is, of course, a facebook group, too. The Outlaw preachers are, very generally, a group of [...]

If you reject any or all of the following: God will punish us with eternal hell for our sins. God will judge us for even the slightest imperfection. Salvation means only having your sins “forgiven” and not being sent to hell after you die. Jesus is the only means of “getting saved”. Once saved God [...]

HE FEAST Of the Transfiguration is one of the 12 Great Feasts of the Church. In other words, on the Eastern calendar, this party ranks up there with Pascha and the Nativity. It’s one of very few feasts that get observed on a Sunday instead of bumped over (in the West) or commemorated (in the [...]

HE Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ is a glorious jewel in the Paschal Crown. As the Fathers teach, human nature is one common unity. In Jesus our human nature rises to the glorious throne of the Trinity. Humanity is united to God and, in a few days, [...]

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself. EMEMBER Last week, when we had the passage on John 3:16 and following? In that sermon I presented you with the following [...]

s the current series winds down (I need only to add a conclusion) I’ve decided to add the previous series into it. The Invitation to communion (“With Faith and Love Draw Near!”) as well as the most recent post on Bible Reading as Tarot Reading, seems to me to be a full set with this [...]