The culture of modernity imagines itself to be a champion of a therapeutic approach to life. “Healing” is popular in an array of forms.
Sunday reading
Following A Conversation With A Tree
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,while we do not look […]
The Despair Of Modernity – It Might Not Be All Bad
The mantra of progress and our belief that no matter the problems confronting us, there is always a solution, are an ideal breeding ground for modern despair.
The Sweet Smoke Of Prayer
The prayer of a humble heart that is not matched by the actions of a humbled body can often be something less than it should be.
What Happens When We Play (Pray)
In my previous article I compared children’s use of play to the place of ritual words and actions in the life of the Church. I absolutely did not mean to imply that one thing is like the other. I mean to say clearly that they are very much the same […]
Playing With God
Among the most natural things children do is play. Depending on how you define play, it is among the first activities in which we engage.
Speaking Out Against Anti-Semitism
Authentic Orthodox Christianity is opposed to anti-Semitism. That said, the Orthodox Church throughout the world is a far-flung family, not a centrally-controlled cult, so that it cannot police or control every utterance made by its members. That being so, it must be admitted, with much sadness and regret, that anti-Semitic […]
What’s Wrong With Suicide?
The motivation of those who killed themselves was not to inflict guilt or pain upon those surviving, but simply to make their own interior pain stop.
Are We Connected?
How connected are we? Do your actions, thoughts, feelings, have an effect on me even if I am unaware (or on the other side of the world)?
“What Colour Was The Blood?”: Reflections On Pedagogy
It is into those young hearts that we must pour our saving Tradition—a Tradition as unvarying as the true colour of blood.
Only Love Knows Anything
In our interactions with other people, our hearing can be very selective. We can imagine that noting the words spoken is sufficient.
Frodo’s Last Lesson
The hand of God is often unseen both by us and by those who oppose us. The mystery of the Cross is the most prominent example of it.
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