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2024-08-06T02:33:05-05:00

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The Transfiguration And The Eschaton

Last updated on: August 6, 2024 at 2:33 am By Henry Karlson

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The Transfiguration is a special event in world history. God reveals to us in the Transfiguration of Christ that the glory of God can and will be shared with material creation, meaning, matter itself can participate in God’s glory and be transfigured by it. This is why some consider the Transfiguration to be an eschatological revelation because it revealed to us the truth of the immanent eschaton, that is, God is with us in Jesus. At the Transfiguration we are... Read more

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2024-08-04T02:34:58-05:00

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The Proper Way To Deal With Sin: Love And Mercy

Last updated on: August 4, 2024 at 2:34 am By Henry Karlson

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Several times during his ministry Jesus made it clear that we are not to go out into the world looking for people to judge and condemn. That is not what we have been tasked to do. We should not let a spirit of condemnation rule over us. If we do so, we find ourselves leaving the path of salvation ourselves, thereby risking being the ones who are condemned. Instead, we are expected to follow the way of love and mercy,... Read more

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2024-08-02T02:32:43-05:00

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The Paradox Of Suffering In God

Last updated on: August 2, 2024 at 2:32 am By Henry Karlson

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By nature, if we are to use such a term for God, God is perfect. In accordance to that perfection, God is incapable of suffering. If God suffered, then, with such suffering, there would be something less than perfect about God. This is why there is nothing we can do to make God suffer. Indeed, God is eternal and in that eternity, unchangeable, and since God is by nature perfect and without suffering, there can be no change which would... Read more

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2024-07-31T02:35:28-05:00

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PRS* XI Remembering A Story

Last updated on: July 31, 2024 at 2:35 am By Henry Karlson

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When I was in first grade, we had a teacher’s aide who came from Hawaii. At the end of her term, which I recall was not at the end of the year but sometime before then, perhaps at the end of the first semester, she told us she was going back to Hawaii. We had a farewell party for her at which she shared with us some Hawaiian candy as well as a story which she said she had heard... Read more

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2024-07-30T02:42:32-05:00

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To Overcome Strife, Focus On What Is Good

Last updated on: July 30, 2024 at 2:42 am By Henry Karlson

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Christianity is a religion about God, God’s love for creation, and the mercy and grace God is willing to give to those who welcome it. All that is good and true can and will find itself embraced by God insofar as it is good and true; in that embrace, God will bring them together, uniting them so that together they can be led to and directed towards even greater and greater goods, until, at least, they embrace not only that... Read more

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2024-07-28T02:33:14-05:00

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Foolish Spectacles

Last updated on: July 28, 2024 at 2:33 am By Henry Karlson

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Paul talks about how he and the rest of the apostles had become spectacles for the world, not only to watch, but to ridicule. This was due to the fact that they radically followed the teachings of Christ, teachings which often went against the hopes and dreams of the elite. The apostles, indeed, Christians, were drawn to the very people society despised, the poor, the social outcasts, and showed them love. In doing this, the apostles were in solidarity with... Read more

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2024-07-26T02:35:49-05:00

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Proper Repentance Leads Us To Being Hospitable

Last updated on: July 26, 2024 at 2:35 am By Henry Karlson

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We are to be good neighbors, helping each other with each other’s needs. This is true, not only in relation to material needs, such as food (often represented in Scripture as bread), but also for spiritual needs, which St. Antony the Great also represented as bread: Abba Antony said, ‘A person went to his neighbour in the Gospel in the middle of the night and said to him, “Loan me three loaves of bread because a friend of mine on... Read more

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2024-07-24T02:33:45-05:00

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PRS* X Political Philosophies And Agendas

Last updated on: July 24, 2024 at 2:33 am By Henry Karlson

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From where I sit, there appears to be two different political philosophies or agendas guiding the United States. The first embraces a concern for the common good, and flowing from that concern, engages social justice with the desire to lift everyone up, promoting the dignity of all persons, no matter the differences which one can find between them (race, sex, religion, cultural background, et. al); what gets in the way of the common good, what gets in the way of... Read more

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2024-07-23T02:33:41-05:00

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Teach In Humility, Not Pride

Last updated on: July 23, 2024 at 2:33 am By Henry Karlson

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Knowledge is a good, but like every other good, it can be abused. People can desire it for the wrong reasons, such as those who accumulate facts to make themselves look smarter, wiser, indeed holier than they are. We must do more with our lives than simply learn. We must act upon what we have learned, with the caveat that we do so with proper humility and love: Those who merely grasp at knowledge are themselves grasped by pride: the... Read more

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Education and Religion

2024-07-21T01:51:59-05:00

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Walking On Water

Last updated on: July 21, 2024 at 1:51 am By Henry Karlson

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Trials and tribulations come upon us all. Some are much more difficult for us to deal with than others, but during all of them we might wonder, where is God? Has God abandoned us? Why doesn’t God seem to be helping us? While it seems as if God has gone away, if we had a better perspective of the situation, we would see that God is letting us exercise our own agency so that hopefully we can grow and become... Read more

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