Good and Evil
“An evil person is not someone who is nothing but evil, someone with no redeeming features or virtues whatsoever. An evil person is not a...
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...
Peace
“Christ then appears through shut doors in the midst of them and tells them one thing: ‘Peace be with you.’ For these to be the first...
Gospel/Good News
“The comprehension of the Gospel depends neither on mental abilities, nor on philosophical sophistication, nor on any other science, but...
Love (Transactional and Reciprocal)
“…“Let all that you do be done in love” (1 Corinthians 16:14). If love was the conscious goal for our every action, we would expect it...
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...
Faith and Modernity
“We modern people suffer a lot because we don’t want to accept ourselves as we are. So we don’t accept ourselves, but at the same time,...
Human Body
“The tendency toward dualism in Greek and Persian philosophy was rooted in a worldview that pits the highest, spiritual reality against...
Purpose
“St. Maximos the Confessor writes about three “incarnations” of the Logos: Creation, the Scriptures, and the God/Man, Jesus Christ. The...
Born Again
“Becoming a child of God, being born of God by being purified and renewed, is the clear theme this chapter opens with, as Jesus instructs...
