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1) There is a right way to do Christianity and a wrong way to do it. 2) This right and wrong has little to do with “doctrine” per se (debatable, iota-sized technicalities about begetting and essence and accident and que) and much to do with practice (do justice, love mercy, pray for enemies, forgive, etc). [...]

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?”

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 [...]

Continuing our series on “The Big Three”, Trinity, Incarnation and Eucharist. The Menu for the entire series is there in the sidebar. The first posts went “inward” on this Journey, from Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity. Now we go the other way – outward… When Jesus said that we are to Love God and our [...]

HE HOLY Trinity may be seen as God who is Transcendent, God who dwells with us, and God who dwells in us. The Bible refers to God, “in whom we live and move and have our Being”. That is the Father. The prayer that opens every service in the Eastern Rite refers to God as [...]

RINITY is the third of the “Big Three” doctrines without which I can’t make sense of Christianity. It is the third leg of my own personal xmin stool. It is also the third in doctrinal Chronology. After Eucharist (from the very beginning) through an understanding of Jesus as God, came the understanding of God as [...]

Last time, in this series on the “Big Three” (see the menu in the sidebar, there) I wrote about God having flesh. And there was an interesting conversation in the comments afterward. I tired to make it clear that these essay are documenting what I think is needed for Christianity to make sense. I recognise [...]

Continuing with the series linked in the sidebar there, under the peace cross. Here is part two on Incarnation. LOT OF Christians get this one wrong. Some, today, even deny it outright. Here’s the most important, radical, revolutionary thing about Christianity: God has a navel. I don’t know if it was an “inney” or an [...]

Continuing in my reverse order – Eucharist to Incarnation to Trinity (like good labyrinth walkers, we will turn around and come out the other way) – we come to Incarnation, now. The complete menu for this series is located in the sidebar, just below the Peace Cross. HE EXPERIENCE of the Early Church was that [...]