Words/Speech
“Words have something of a sacramental relationship with the reality they represent. Or, to be more precise, they have an iconic...
Spiritual Blindness and Deafness
“He [Gadarene Demoniac – Luke 16:19-31] is an icon of our brokenness and represents us all in many ways. He did not ask Christ to deliver...
Sacrifice
“The rejection of egotism, that is, the ability to sacrifice your own interests for the sake of another, is an important and highly...
Worship
“The heart of worship is the offering of praise and thanksgiving to the God who has given us life and sustains all things in their...
Heart and Mind
“Has the world always been such a mad dash and so busy, or is something just wrong with me? But it’s not the outer disquiet that troubles...
Body and Soul/Spiritual and Physical
“That the soul is superior to the body is an assumption based in Hellenistic philosophy and is a bit dualistic as the bible presents...
Hope
“Many people indeed live lives of “quiet desperation” simply because they have no hope and cannot imagine where hope would begin. The...
Perfect Love
“God, the Holy Trinity, is perfect love. As Gregory of Nyssa observes, the Holy Trinity “is a sort of continuous and indivisible...
Values
“Whether we realize it or not, we are growing in the image of something or someone every day of our lives. We can easily become living...
Faith and Reason
“Faith is critical if we are not to remain earthbound. Divine matters cannot be comprehended with the mind, but we are conditioned in our...