Yesterday I received a comment on an older blog post that said that all the Orthodox that this person had met were hypocrites. Of course, I was at first tempted to answer with either snappy comebacks or with philosophical comebacks or by re-defining the term. I finally wrote that I had no way to disprove […]
Fools for Christ
Before I became Orthodox, I had heard several sermons about someone being foolish in the eyes of the world in order to serve God. The Scripture most often quoted was from Saint Paul: Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that […]
Five Types of Christians
Mother Maria Skobtsova, a martyr of the Nazi concentration camps, and an early 20th century intellectual and nun, wrote an insightful essay entitled, “Types of Religious Life.” In it she articulates five ways of being religious: the “synodal,” the ritualist, the aesthetical, the ascetical as well the ideal way, the “evangelical” (or “way of the […]
We have met the enemy and he is us, part 02
. . . drop themselves into the sea. The final enemy is the one to which we tend to historically pay the least attention, and that is the flesh. And here is the key to what kept the monastics and the Amish from straying into the legalism and the lack of balance of the separatist […]
We have met the enemy and he is us, part 01
I have been talking about the Anabaptists–or at least those descended from the English Separatists–and the early monastics. I have mentioned how the monastics were kept from falling into the same trap as the Anabaptists. But, let me put it another way that may help you to see it better, and it has to do […]
How monks avoided becoming fundamentalists
Yesterday I asked the question about why the early Christian monks did not fall into the trap of the modern separatist fundamentalists. After all, if you read Church history, the monastic movement started from some of the same concerns the Anabaptists had about the purity of the Church and the failure of Christians to practice, […]
Why some fundamentalists need to study history!
Church Plans To Burn Bibles, Christian Books Pastor Says Burning Meant To Light A Fire Under True Believers CANTON, N.C. — A North Carolina pastor says his church plans to burn Bibles and books by Christian authors on Halloween to light a fire under true believers. Pastor Marc Grizzard told Asheville TV station WLOS that […]
Masjid ul Aqsa fighting
Today the news came across about fighting at the Masjid ul Aqsa compound. Most of us in the USA know is as the Dome of the Rock. It is the third holiest site in Islam and the holiest site for Jews. Within its general area are both the mosque and the Wailing Wall. Of course, […]
On Patriarch Bartholomew and ecology
The day before yesterday, an Orthodox deacon posted a copy of the Opening Address of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Bartholomew at the Symposium on The Great Mississippi River held at New Orleans on Facebook. It was not a religious forum per se, and so the address was a carefully worded neutral beginning. Frankly, it was not one […]
Que será, será
Father Orthoduck does not agree with the optimism of the Catholic Archbishop of Moscow. But, one never knows. And, our prayer ought to be for unity. All too often, our prayers for unity are that God will show those near-heathen near-pagan others that they should believe just like we do. Father Orthoduck thinks that when […]
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