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Testing Our Faith: Actions Reflecting Christ’s Teachings

Jesus is the good shepherd who is willing to die in order to take care...

February 2024

February 25, 2024

Jesus Offers Himself As A Sacrifice Of Love

God transcends all names, even the name of God. But, to deal with God, we...

March 2023

March 05, 2023

To Experience The Presence Of God

Jesus is the way. He directs and guides everyone, hoping to bring them together as...

March 13, 2022

Jesus The High Priest Laid Down His Life For All

Jesus came to bring everyone life; he did not come to judge and condemn us...

November 2021

November 14, 2021

Worthy Of Grace?

When we are filled with grace, we must engage it, cooperate with it, live it...

November 03, 2021

Reason, Arguments, And Truth

Faith and reason are both important; the two complement and correct each other, so that...

May 2021

May 24, 2021

Uncreated Energies. Part Seven: Conclusion

The distinction between God’s nature and energy (or energies), between God’s essence and God’s activity,...

May 19, 2021

Uncreated Energies. Part Six: Deification Is For Both Matter and Spirit

God truly is all-deifying, acting and working with creation, matter and spirit, seeking to elevate...

May 17, 2021

Uncreated Energies. Part Five: Partakers of the Divine Nature

God reaches out towards us, indeed engages us so that we can become partakers of...

May 12, 2021

Uncreated Energies. Part Four: Divine Simplicity

The plurality of God’s works with creation, the plurality of the divine energies, do not...

May 10, 2021

Uncreated Energies. Part Three: The Distinction Between Essence and Energy

What we know of God, we know through God’s energies, that is, God’s operations. We...

May 05, 2021

Uncreated Energies. Part Two: The Light of Truth

God, the unapproachable light of truth, draws us in; the more we engage the light,...

May 03, 2021

Uncreated Energies. Part One: The Light of God

The divine nature’s transcendence leads to all kinds of paradoxes for us when we try...

March 2021

March 29, 2021

Grace, Theosis, And The Uncreated Energy Of God

“God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods...

February 2021

February 28, 2021

St Gregory Palamas And The Uncreated Energies Of God

God, by nature, is simple. God has no parts. Likewise, God, by nature, is incomprehensible...

June 2020

June 17, 2020

Hierarchies

God, who is all good, established his creation so that he could share that goodness...

March 2020

March 08, 2020

The Meaning of St Gregory Palamas Sunday

The first Sunday of Lent, the Sunday of Orthodoxy, celebrated the triumph of icons, and...

February 2020

February 17, 2020

Humans, Animals, and God: Learning About The Other Through Analogy

Epistemologically, it is difficult for us to prove we know what happens outside of ourselves....

August 2018

August 15, 2018

Dealing With the Paradox of God: Part Two of Three

How can we know God if he transcends us? In the Kabbalah, the answer comes...

March 2017

March 09, 2017

Reflection For The Second Sunday of Lent (St Gregory Palamas Sunday)

And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was...

February 2016

February 24, 2016

The Triumph of the Cross

The cross was once a thing of pain and sorrow, an instrument of terror and...

February 18, 2016

After Aquinas, Palamas

In my previous post, I talked about how good followers of St. Thomas Aquinas should...

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