Take up your cross.... is not an invitation to passivity. It is not about quietly and submissively accepting whatever hardship falls on you. Jesus was never passive. He did not just react to what was thrown at him. He lived a life of active initiative. He courted trouble! He is not telling us to accept …
Where Distance Disappears
One member of our congregation told me the other day that she saw this time of social distancing as a time of retreat with herself. Isn’t that a wonderful way to see this thing we now call "social distancing"? And isn’t social distancing itself a rather poor label? We are social beings, after all. Haven’t …
Theology of the Cross, Part 1
The third in a short series of Bible Study classes exploring the themes of the Sundays of Lent focused on the Cross of Jesus Christ, which is venerated on the Third Sunday of Lent in the Orthodox Church (last Sunday, March 15th). An audio file of the class is attached, together with the PowerPoint presentation and a PDF version of the …
