536. Miscellany: 1) The World: back to normal? 2) Advice from a Wizard. 3) Why Orthodoxy “works” – and much more…

    Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!   …..4) Science slashers: Do they not believe in the Creator? 5) The Pope and the Patriarch. 6) Atheist discovers Theosis. 7) Statistics on Religion in Ukraine and Russia, Pentagon Inefficiency: a moral issue? and Gaza Prisoner Exchange These  are assorted items I’ve come across, each […]

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535. Saint Augustine of Hippo: superb pastor, preacher, author, loving father, and theologian – but whose theology inadvertantly confused Western Christianity for fifteen centuries

  Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!     Saint Augustine of Hippo commemorated on June 15 But…but… you say, today isn’t June 15. It’s May 15. You are correct. Explanation: senility? Over the years I’ve made a long list of saints who I think would make interesting reading. Somehow I got Saint Augustine […]

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534. “Arise!” Here is this Sunday’s sermon two days early.

      I am to present the Homily at Saint Nicholas Church, Cedarburg, this Sunday. I can only keep so many ideas in my mind at one time, so you all are about to read my Sunday “sermon”. (Any members of Saint Nicholas here present have my permission either to stop reading now, or […]

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533. “Are You Saved?” the Orthodox understanding of Salvation

      Christ is risen! Truly He is risen!   “Here’s how we do it. We visit people, and we ask ‘Do you want to be sure you’re going to Heaven?’ Most of them say ‘Yes’.  Then we say: ‘Just recite these words: “I accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior”, and […]

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