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...
Holiness
“One of the most encouraging lines of the Divine Liturgy comes shortly before Holy Communion, when the priest says “The Holy Gifts for...
Consumerism
“As Christians, then, we find ourselves in the awkward position, indicative of a genuine tension, of accepting our Lord’s teaching about...
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...
Spiritual Warfare
“So, attention is the central point of spiritual warfare, the focus of Christian life, the criterion and measure of salvation of the...