We were created for Heaven, for a true apprehension of God, and for a Divine life that this life cannot yet perceive. True, it has been...

So, how do these three seeming dissonant and disparate items – – Orthodox views on justification, dropping dead as the opposite of the...

The substance of his sermon was drawn from the day’s Gospel lesson on the resurrection of the son of the widow of Nain from St. Luke 7....

And so this evening I sit here enjoying a wonderful mead that my colleague Tyler bottled (the man is a genius), and I am having no...

In reflecting upon another subject on another blog (Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy), I found myself picking up Frederick Kinsman’s Salve Mater...

The Church of England and the Anglican “communion” have always fascinated me. I received my M.Div. from an Episcopal Seminary, and wrote...

Tonight I will be leading the initial discussion about the Mysteries of the Orthodox Church, covering Baptism, Chrismation, and the...

6 August is the great Feast of the Transfiguration. My confessor, Fr. Thomas Edwards sent me this, and I liked it too much not to post...

I have been quite busy, and thus the lack of posts. Aside from some teaching at my parish (which I have thoroughly enjoyed) I have been...

3 lb. bass, and tasty too. We ate well, the cooking falling to my colleague Mike (an American historian) and me. Mike is a man of meat,...

In regard to Romans 9, there are three things on should note: the matter of the love of God, the question of Providence in working out...

Though I have come close to finishing my post on Romans 9, I am going to wait till I return from my trip to post it. This is also true of...

Faustus in Latin means lucky, or favorable, and was a nom de plume assumed by a number of late medieval and renaissance characters, but...

What’s up at Lux Christi? Well, I came back from vacation with an extra member to my household, a young man named Matthew that my wife...

Many Protestants will say that this is what catholicity consists in, in the proper confession of what Holy Scripture teaches, and then...

Sherrard’s option is what he eventually calls panentheism, that the creation is nothing other than God thinking about Himself, that it is...

In keeping with this, and while not stated in the post but something he knows all too well, for we have talked about this, is that money...

Perry Robinson has posted a really good read on Energetic Processions about Orthodoxy so-called homosexual marriages.

What this has done, because I cannot measure that second item, is turned my ever-expanding syllabus into a lie, or at least a really...

I had written last time some thoughts as an introduction on the cosmic nature of prayer, and now I wish to turn to those items that...