“Welcome one another, therefore, as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.” A beautiful welcome today from St. Paul's letter to the Romans. A welcome on this feastday of the Transfiguration - a day that reveals the glory of God to us. Jesus said: "The queen of the South will rise at …
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On August 15th the Orthodox Church observes the feast of the Dormition of Mary (Assumption in the Roman Catholic Church). The simple event of our Lady's earthly death became adorned with all sorts of legendary additions which have never interested me. It's the theological and mystical dimensions of this wonderful feast that interest me. Dormition comes …
The Christian churches have always looked for dogmas when reading the Bible, especially the Gospels and the Letters of St. Paul. This is an essential task, but sometimes in our eagerness to turn everything into dogma we miss some more immediate meanings and messages. The transfiguration of Christ is an excellent example. The Orthodox Church celebrates …
On this day, 69 years ago, the B-52 bomber Enola Gay, dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on the Japanese city Hiroshima. About 70,000 people were killed instantly and tens of thousands of survivors died in the months and years following from radiation poisoning. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. …
Christology is the branch of theology that deals with the person of Jesus Christ. There are a few passages of the New Testament that are considered high points of christology. What is remarkable about these passages is that they seem to be fragments of early Christian hymns. It appears that the early Christians expressed their …
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As Elijah flees from Jezebel, he enters a landscape where God was a familiar presence. God's preferred hangouts were mountains and deserts. So Elijah flees to the desert again. This time instead of ravens it's an angel of the Lord who brings him food and drink. But this was not enough for Elijah; he needed …
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