Category: Blog
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All Saints – who are Israel
As a country, the US is deeply formed (or deformed) by dispensationalist ideology. Counteracting this is the Church’s teaching that the Church is Israel.
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Born this way
Thoughts on healing the man born blind. Do we realize how huge this is? To the ancients it was impressive, but we can now see it’s more than just a “medical miracle”. It’s an instant change in the man’s whole internal structures. What can God not do?
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You Gotta Wanna
When Jesus asks us if we’re ready, are we really ready? NO, *really*?
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Timey Wimey Week
Thoughts on time and our actually participation in the events of Holy Week – not just a fond memory, but being there.
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Of Body Counts
St Mary of Sgypt had, as the cool kids say, a high body count. God turned that into her path to himself.
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Loaves, Fishes, Pascha
A Calendar Nerd ramble on the meaning of Barley Loaves and the dating of Pascha. The context for setting the date of Pascha as “not with the Jews” has nothing to do with the current Hebrew Calendar or the date of Passover on it. Rather it’s a good bit more complex. And therefor, for a…
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Continuing 1812
A meditation with a musical connection between the Sunday of the Cross and our on-going struggle against the French, the Freemasons and the Marxists, um… I mean… the World, the Flesh, and the Devil.
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Those Other Icons
When we venerate icons, the worship paid to the image passes to the prototype. That’s not just a teaching of the Church, it is a spiritual truth. And it doesn’t matter which icons we venerate. Or rather, it matters very much.
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Taste and See
Some thoughts on the Eastern Churches and Evangelism.
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Forgiveness Sunday
Thoughts on forgiveness Sunday, the Expulsion from Paradise, and ministry to the homeless.
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Meatfare Sunday
Thoughts on the Gospel of the Last Judgement, feeding the poor, and clothing the naked.
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Which one are you?
Never dawned on me before but the publican was probably far richer than the Pharisee. He was also, as far as secular power goes, better situated between the political authority of the Romans and the suck-up power of the Sadducees. But he still gets it.
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Zacandleusmas
What we do is in response to what God is doing. Always. Scriptures:
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Liturgical Hospitality
Jesus calls us to welcome the stranger. How’s that working out for you? Scripture:
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Friendship & Ascesis
A meditation on the struggle in the context of friendship. It’s not go for the man to be alone.
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