556. Saint Symeon the New Theologian

    Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine. Pray for the Palestinian people and for peace in Gaza.   The first thing I want to say is that Saint Symeon makes me feel embarrassed. First, because of how little I’ve known of this great man. How have I missed him all these years? […]

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555. The Assassination of Charlie Kirk and GUNS IN AMERICA

Pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank.   This will not be pleasant reading. If you want sweetness and light, come back next week. However, to your great relief and mine, I’m not going to talk about Charlie Kirk today. I’m just using him as […]

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554. 1) Is it right to address God as “she”? 2) The Orthodox approach to Environmentalism

  Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Please give through International Orthodox Christian Charities. iocc.org ________________________   What follows here are two papers I prepared almost thirty years ago, for what purpose I can’t remember. A member of our Saint Nicholas congregation found […]

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553. Holy and Righteous David, King and Prophet, the Ancestor of God

  Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the much-suffering Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. __________________   Why an article about King David in the middle of September? Just because… Because I’ve wanted to write about this fascinating and significant man, but there’s never an appropriate time. Many prophets get […]

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552. 1) The Orthodox View of Science. 2) The Trump Administration’s War on Science

  Please pray for the suffering people of Ukraine and the Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank. Please give through International Orthodox Christian Charities. iocc.org _______________________________________ Point One: The Orthodox Church’s View of Science and Scientific Research To sum up at the beginning: We’re all for it. In this we are unlike Fundamentalist […]

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