131. 2011 Trip, Part Three: Athens, Saint Nektarios does it again (possibly), and Reflections on Re-entry

This has been a long vacation, folks. I see from the Blog stats that some have headed home already. Understandable. However, I think you who are still hanging in here will enjoy our last week in Greece. Today it’s… Back to the Mainland and Saint Nektarios We wanted to visit Saint Nektarios again, so on Wednesday […]

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129. 2011 Trip, Part One – Getting out of Town, “Givens” and Greece

It’s summer. Enough talk about troublesome issues. Time to put all that behind us and go traveling again. Get out of Town! Brothers and sisters, taking a break from regular life is important. We need to get out of the house, away from the job, and do something different – even if we only go […]

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128. War and Peace, Part Three – The Orthodox Priority of Creating Peace

Christ is risen! Truly he is risen! Here’s what we’ve covered so far: In Part One we looked at New Testament and Patristic teaching, and then at the Western Just War Theory by which wars may be judged to be good or bad. In Part Two we saw the classic Orthodox approach: Father Harakas said […]

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127. War and Peace: Part Two – The Classic Eastern Orthodox Approach

Christ is risen! Truly he is risen! Most of us living in the West, of whatever Faith, have grown up using many  Western categories and assumptions. OK, folks, give it up! Prepare to change your paradigm! Eastern Orthodoxy often comes at things differently. I learned this early, when I as an Anglican asked certain questions […]

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