Awareness
“There is an experience of shame that surrounds the self (everybody’s self) that is simply unavoidable. Shame is associated with the...
Agency (God and Human)
“I consider it both a strange mystery and a settled matter of the faith that God prefers not to do things alone…He acts in a manner that...
Repentance
“What were God’s first words, having become man, in His peaching? ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’ There are no hopeless...
Despair
“The first to enter heaven was a thief. And the first to enter hell was an apostle of Christ. And how all this happened is a great lesson...
Patterns
“…the “pattern” in the whole of Scripture is revealed in the primary pattern of Christ’s Pascha (death and resurrection). His Pascha...
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...
Individualism versus Personhood
“The Holy Bible and the Church Fathers encourage us to become persons, not individuals. Only then we can be in the likeness of the Holy...
Human Nature
“Human life consists of two components: one is internal, invisible, and the other external, visible. The first is all the spiritual...
Providence
“All good things come from God providentially, and those who bring them are the servants of what is good.” (St. Mark the Ascetic) “We do...