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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 [...]

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 [...]

Revised Common Lectionary: 1 Samuel 15:34 – 16:13 Ezekiel 17:22-24 2 Corinthians 5:6-17 Mark 4:26-34 Eastern Rite: Romans 2:10-16 Matthew 4:18-23 When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves… God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts [...]

Difficult Love to the End… N SOME Very shallow ways, these are the chapters that a liberal will love the most. Olivier Clement draws on the deepest, mystical teachings of the Church to give the Gospel the most inclusive, the most Universalist readings possible. When I was at St Gregory’s Church, these chapters can make [...]

AINT Irenaeus offers “where the Church is there the Spirit of God is also; and where the Spirit of God is, there the Church is…” and I’m mindful of that prayer that begins all services in the Eastern Rite, that addresses the Holy Spirit as “everywhere present and filling all things”.

This was very displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry. He prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow [...]

AUL May be the first one to wrestle publicly with the question of difference between Jews (and Gentiles) who accept Jesus as Messiah and specifically Jews who reject Jesus as Messiah. He is doing so in to-day’s RCL readings (for Proper 15, Year A, RCL): Just as you were once disobedient to God but have [...]

Since moving to Buffalo, I’ve had the time – and the sleeping schedule – to rededicate myself to trying to pray on a regular basis. I love the Western Offices – I’ve been using my Monastic Diurnal. The tradition of reciting large parts of the psalms every day is wonderfully edifying. But the traditional western [...]