Glory to God For All Things

Beloved, we are children of God, and it doesn’t yet appear what we shall be.

C.S.

Nothing is more traumatic than the onset of chaos.

First published in March, 2022 “My spiritual efforts don’t do anything, they merely bring me to the place where I know I can’t do anything, to the place where I am utterly naked before God!”

Years ago, when I first started seminary, its unusual Anglican practice was the daily celebration of the Eucharist.

I love walls.

In the summer of 1952, an obscure event took place in London that would have a profound impact on the future of Orthodox Christianity in the English-speaking world.

In Peter Jackson’s, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” Arwen (an elf) says to Aragorn (whom she loves): “I choose a mortal life.”

Our personal existence is not self-contained but is found only in relation.

Fr.

I have studiously avoided online debates regarding an eternal hell and the punishment of the wicked.

In St.

I read my way towards Orthodoxy.

This article first appeared in 2020.

I was once told that there was a traditional Jewish practice that forbade the reading of Ezekiel prior to age 40.

August 15 is the Feast of the Dormition, the “Falling Asleep” of the Virgin Mary.

The hymn was familiar.

My attention was drawn to the event of the Transfiguration during my college years.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you th…

I love taking “deep dives” into history – going beyond survey material and making my way through pages and pages of boring detail.

Sir Walter Scott (1808) famously wrote: “O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”