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2021-04-04T22:10:18-04:00

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The Patience of the Orthodox (Pascha)

Last updated on: April 4, 2021 at 10:10 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Patience will bring the final victory over sin, death, and devils. Easter joy to Christians celebrating the Feast! For the Orthodox, the ancient churches, Pascha is still four weeks in the future. The Son will rise in the East as always, but in His perfect timing. The Orthodox are patient. Our day is coming. Meanwhile, we rejoice with those who rejoice, but perhaps all Christians can learn from the Orthodox faithful. Patience is much needed just now. We are encouraged... Read more

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2021-04-04T22:54:53-04:00

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Endure as the Greeks Endured (The Greek Bicentennial)

Last updated on: April 4, 2021 at 10:54 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

In the United States, some are tempted to impatience or unseemly panic. Instead, we should keep calm, exercise patience, look to our roots, and endure. One ideological root for America is Greece. One great theological root for the Church is Greece. We learn from Greece, God-blessed Hellas, that the Faithful people endure. We are not afraid. Things have been much worse for the Faithful in the past and are much worse for those facing the atheistic regime in China. We can thank... Read more

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2021-04-04T22:57:06-04:00

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The Passion of Jesus and Chios (Greek Bicentennial)

Last updated on: April 4, 2021 at 10:57 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Rebellion against the tyrants was not their first choice. When the choice was thrust on them, when history caught up with the gentle, beautiful island of Chios, they kept being, gloriously, Greek, Christian. This was intolerable to a rotting empire, more eager to make new slaves and kill everyone than to allow liberty. Three quarters died or were enslaved on Chios. Consider: 75% of the freedom loving Greeks were murdered or made slaves for the love of God and Greece. What is... Read more

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2021-04-03T08:51:12-04:00

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Lord Byron Got One Big Thing Right (Greek Bicentennial)

Last updated on: April 3, 2021 at 8:51 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Lord Byron is a poet vaguely known, little read. He can teach all of us something, even if for your sins you never have to read his “classic” poem Don Juan. Byron himself was a terrible man, a human resource department disaster, with an ear for a jingle and a direct pipeline to the spirit of the age. As a result of his trendiness, he was an early social media star, forgiven for his vices, though like all such people,... Read more

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2021-04-11T21:36:48-04:00

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Some Mr. Booth is Planning Tonight

Last updated on: April 11, 2021 at 9:36 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Every year Americans face two anniversaries on one day: the sinking of the White Star Liner Titanic and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. This year, for assorted reasons, I have been trying to understand John Wilkes Booth. He was no madman, thought himself a great man, and might have been if he had not become a monstrous man. If we merely mock him, then we cannot understand him and so avoid him. Days before April 14/15, Booth had decided,... Read more

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2021-03-30T20:15:24-04:00

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King Jesus and the Martyred Gregory: An Example for Our Time (Greek Independence Bicentennial)

Last updated on: March 30, 2021 at 8:15 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

The way is shut. It was shut by the martyred dead and only on the Last Day will the risen Martyr open the door. In Constantinople there is a door frame where a tyrant sultan hanged a Christian patriarch by the neck until he was dead. The piety of the condemned man, his fasting and life of sacrifice, meant that his body was too light to drop and so quickly end his suffering. Instead, he was tormented for hours. So... Read more

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2021-03-29T00:09:35-04:00

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The Ad Celebrating Greece that Facebook Will Not Run: Solidarity with the Greek Republic and the Greek Bicentennial

Last updated on: March 29, 2021 at 12:09 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Can Facebook cancel Greek history? Why would they try? Or are they merely unwilling to advertise the bicentennial of a republic in a region where democracy is imperiled? Are they sorry that Greece defeated the Ottoman Empire to win liberty? Have they forgotten that one cannot say “democracy” without the Greek? Our College and School celebrates the bicentennial of Greek independence with no monument except one from the heart. The faculty chose the speech of Pericles and our students recounted portions... Read more

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2021-03-28T00:14:54-04:00

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The Debt We Owe to Enduring Greece (Bicentennial of Hellas)

Last updated on: March 28, 2021 at 12:14 am By John Mark N. Reynolds

Athens is a home of all who desire to know. There is a diaspora of Greek people spread out all over the world, but there is a diaspora of the heart for Greece. There are those of us that owe Greece a debt culturally and intellectually? For the Christian, Athens is the city where Saint Paul began the salvation of philosophy. When the Parthenon was dedicated to the true Virgin, not merely Athena, then a process began that would produce... Read more

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2021-03-27T23:22:54-04:00

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In an Illuminated Cave in Crete (Happy Bicentennial Hellas!)

Last updated on: March 27, 2021 at 11:22 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

One Christian in Crete, in an illuminated cave, was greater than all the treasures of antiquity. Minos, maze, Minotaur: so my imagination dreamed of Crete and on the island imagination is found in the stones of Minoan culture. On this ancient island, mother of one of the oldest Mediterranean cultures, Plato’s Athenian Stranger created mythical Magnesia as an ideal city, since the greatest god, Zeus, was born there. The ruins of ancient, pagan Crete are powerful and the images, even... Read more

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2021-03-27T23:18:08-04:00

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He was born in the Tomb of Agamemnon (Happy Bicentennial Greece!)

Last updated on: March 27, 2021 at 11:18 pm By John Mark N. Reynolds

Make history. Tell a story and root that story in the people, family, and times. Otherwise, we can become rootless captured by our facile judgments of those who came before us. We expect to live in the best of times, so when we discover we live in the worst of times, we forget that this always is true. Every age is golden and dross: the best of times, the worst of times. We must find this in the ancient ways... Read more

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