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Transitions are not elegant. They are doctors’ handwriting. They are gangly fifteen-year-old boys and girls covered in acne. They are playing mud soccer, tripping, and sprawling headfirst into the mud. Then sliding fifteen yards. Transition…
Feb/06/2023
“An abba said, ‘The prophets wrote books, then came our fathers, who put them into practice. Those who came after them learnt them by heart. Then came the present generation, who have written them out and put them into their window seat wit…
Jan/23/2023
Who am I really?
Who am I apart from my achievements (or failures) and the roles that I play in life?
Both questions invite us to ponder our true identity.
I remember the first time I sat with them during a time of silent reflectio…
Jan/16/2023
Right now, in this post-holiday season, many of us are recovering from offering hospitality to disagreeable family members: aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, and in-laws, whose personalities, or politics, clash with our own. (I am fortunate…
Jan/09/2023
In a strange confluence of events, I found myself writing a master’s thesis on the apostle Paul’s usage of the term “body” while having my own body examined and tested by several medical specialists. My research project was simple enough: I…
Dec/19/2022
The term “church history” immediately conjures up a collage of images: Gothic script and stone cathedrals; flowing vestments, gleaming chalices, bones, and books. The thing is, most conventional accounts of church history masquerade as comp…
Dec/14/2022
“Mary treasured up all [the words of the shepherds] and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19)
In Luke’s account of the birth of Christ, we see angelic messengers proclaim the newborn king. Shepherds, the first recipients of this good ne…
Dec/12/2022
At one of the most pivotal moments in the history of the early apostolic church—an inflection point recorded in the book of Acts—we read:
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Ba…
Dec/07/2022
Three of my best friends and I sat on a bench at the back of the chapel after vespers, after an evening of sunset canoeing and the kind of day that makes me expel an exhausted and contented sigh as I collapse in a heap. We were volunteering…
Dec/05/2022
St. Vladimir’s Popular Patristics Series
Building a historical theology library must begin with primary sources. I know that many of you are looking to this series for recommendations of recent scholarship to keep your library and your kno…
Nov/23/2022
In On Christian Doctrine, Augustine wrote, “So anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build up this double love of God and neighbor, has not yet succeeded in under…
Nov/21/2022
Concern for idolatry permeates the Scriptures. If idolatry is understood as turning away from God and placing one’s trust in someone or something else, it appears as early as Gen 3. John Wesley addresses it in many sermons and essays, but p…
Nov/16/2022
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