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Works And Grace

As the Christian faith is often presented as some sort of moralistic legalism, with God...

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God’s Work With All Major Religious Traditions

Early in Christian history, especially during the time before Constantine, Christians often engaged and recognized...

September 15, 2024

God Is Not An Agent Of Sin

When Christ shows us love and mercy, doing so despite our many sins, we should...

September 12, 2024

Love All, Including Ourselves

We are called to love our neighbors as ourselves, which means, we are to love...

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August 18, 2024

Trust In God

Paul reminds us as Christians that all our actions should be geared towards love. “Be...

August 13, 2024

PRS* XIII God And Science

I like to visit my local Half-Price Bookstore every week, as it is most likely...

August 02, 2024

The Paradox Of Suffering In God

By nature, if we are to use such a term for God, God is perfect....

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July 05, 2024

Agape

John tells us that God is love, “Ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν” (1 Jn. 4:16). The...

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Becoming More Like God

Grace comes to us from God, providing us the means to share in and participate...

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Abraham’s Revelation

We have to look back to pre-history, to Abraham, to see the foundations of modern,...

June 09, 2024

Freedom Is Good, Even Though It Can Be Abused

Humanity was made for greatness; sadly, we find ourselves far from it. We have gone...

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May 14, 2024

Evil Must Not Be Essentialized

Everything God created, God created good. Existence, being created by God, therefore is good, which...

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April 30, 2024

Many Ways To Worship God

Tolkien mentioned that those who believe in a personal God find themselves drawn to God...

April 12, 2024

How Can God Dwell In Us?

We are called to be temples of God, that is, to have God dwell within...

April 02, 2024

Annihilation And Destruction Is The Way Of Evil, Not God

God created the world and saw it was good. As God is the source and...

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January 26, 2024

God’s Universal Love

God’s all-deifying love is for all. God desires to share it with everyone, for God...

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November 29, 2023

Salvation Is Participation In Love

So many people have distorted the message of Jesus that they think salvation is about...

November 28, 2023

Darkness, Light And Glory

Solomon’s Temple, built to house the presence of God, provides us ways to understand various...

November 17, 2023

Love Is The Foundation For All Our Encounters With God

Scripture often talks about God anthropomorphically as if God were human. Sometimes, this is done...

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Blessings And Sinners

Salvation is by grace, not works. Grace is given out to sinners, blessing them so...

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God And Gender

God has no gender. God transcends all genders, and yet all genders participate in and...

September 26, 2023

God And The Poor

St. Peter Chrysologus pointed out that those who stand for and promote the poor are,...

September 17, 2023

The Foolishness Of God

While common sense often provides basic insight which can be useful in making judgments, it...

September 08, 2023

Accepting Our Nothingness

God created the universe out of nothing; this makes creation contingent in its existence. The...

September 01, 2023

God Changes Without Change

Humanity has had, and continues to have, many kinds of relationships with God. Many of...

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We Should Let Ourselves Be Taken In By God’s Love

God seeks to do what can be done to make things right with us. God...

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Everyone Can Teach Us Something About God

Many Christians say that anyone who has a different understanding of God than the one...

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May 26, 2023

To Imitate God

God is love. Jesus is the visible image of the invisible God (cf. Col. 1:15)....

May 23, 2023

God Is Mercy

St. Leo the Great pointed out that God works with us, indeed, with the whole...

May 09, 2023

The Greatest Thing We Can Say About God Is Nothing

Nothing. God is so great, no matter how sophisticated our words are, no matter how...

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