God's Presence
“I truly felt the presence of God, and this feeling was reflected in my love for going to church… And I didn’t have this religious life...
Symbols
“The Lord knows that we can only make sense of the world through rational engagement with it, and so we are given patterns and symbols to...
Purpose
“St. Maximos the Confessor writes about three “incarnations” of the Logos: Creation, the Scriptures, and the God/Man, Jesus Christ. The...
Blood of Christ
“… it also deserves to be pointed out that the first words of Jesus to have been written down anywhere (as far as we know) were not the...
Love and Sin
“The Fathers of the Church tell us to hate the sin, not the sinner. They tell us to refuse to sin ourselves, and to understand that the...
Innocence
“Too often, those seeking to “salvage” the Scriptures—motivated by our modern disapproval of violence, particularly when it affects...
Gospel/Good News
“The meaning of the Gospel is revealed to us precisely when we try to fulfill it. Since it’s mostly just distracted reading for us, it...
Human Person
“The loss of this participation and the subsequent diminution and corruption of their being is what it means for an angelic being to...
Created Order
“Our roots, our heritage, and our life experiences shape us, for in them, as in every aspect of the created order, the hand of the Lord...
Incarnation
“In literature and in art, we call the inversion of two elements a “chiasm,” from the Greek letter Chi (Χ) that can be physically traced...