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"Let us, instead, "love the Lord our God with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our mind, and our neighbor as ourself." Unless we believe that whatever Moses meant in these books he meant to be ordered by these two precepts…

We often seek to be in relationship with people that are like us, in terms of ethnicity, dress, socio-economic status, etc.  But the Gospel transcends these categories. It creates a people that are part of the new creation: "neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision,…

It’s in the midst of temptation that one can hear deeply from the Lord. The battle of sin...

Studying 15th century Orthodox Byzantine Sacramentology makes me feel like I’ve been getting fast food rather than a meal. I’ve been missing out on the richness of Christian tradition. 

Untitled Blog Post Name It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price…. One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk…