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August 02, 2020

Workers With God

God gives us freedom, and with that freedom, we can (and should) choose to work...

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July 14, 2020

Losing Sight Of God

When we pursue holiness, we are tempted to think of ourselves as being better than...

June 2020

June 17, 2020

Hierarchies

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

April 2020

April 24, 2020

God Does Not Throw Us Away

Hans Urs von Balthasar suggests that the way many of us treat the concept of...

April 17, 2020

To Freely Speak With God

Often when we pray, or rather, when we try to pray, our heart is not...

April 16, 2020

We Are Not Being Judged By God With The Coronavirus, But We Will Be Judged By How We Deal With It

While the novel coronavirus COVID-19 should not be seen as divine punishment, some manipulators are...

April 14, 2020

Our Actions, Not Fate, Determine What We Experience

One of the most dangerous things to develop in popular forms of piety in religion...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

The Annunciation and Consent

The Annunciation tells us about God and how he interacts with us. When Mary was...

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....

February 09, 2020

The Prodigal Son and Us

The Second Sunday of the Byzantine Pre-Lent Triodion reminds us of the great and bountiful...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

Aquinas and God: Why Muslims And Others Believe In The Same God As The Christians

St. Thomas Aquinas pointed out there is a distinction between what we can come to...

January 24, 2020

God, Humanity and Exile

In the 16th century, Rabbi Isaac Luria presented his own developed insight on the Kabbalah....

January 17, 2020

St. Antony the Great and God’s Universal Presence

After seeking God through an ascetic life of prayer, St. Antony the Great realized a...

November 2019

November 12, 2019

We Should Be Careful And Not Presume That Only Humanity Is Religious

“How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one...

September 2019

September 18, 2019

Christians Need To Acknowledge Others Worship God With Them

When philosophers and theologians talk about the existence of God, they talk about God in...

September 09, 2019

God Covenants With All Creation

The greatness of God transcends the human imagination. While God reveals himself to us, especially...

September 03, 2019

The Great Prophet Moses

One of the greatest, indeed, perhaps the greatest religious figure in the pre-Christian era, was...

September 02, 2019

All Creation Praises God

God, the source and foundation of everything and everyone, sustains everyone and everything as well....

July 2019

July 01, 2019

When We Accept The Exploitation Of Creation, We End Up Exploiting Each Other

Humans, called to be stewards of creation, are not meant to be parasites taking over...

June 2019

June 02, 2019

The Glorification of the Son: A Reflection on The Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council

It might seem strange that the last Sunday of the Byzantine Paschal cycle, coming after...

May 2019

May 27, 2019

Life Is A Dream

In trying to console his friend, the decaconess St Olympia, St John Chrysostom reminded her...

May 13, 2019

Appropriations and Essentialization

The incomprehensible God has revealed himself to us. There are many ways in which this...

April 2019

April 29, 2019

Don’t Limit God By A Lack Of Imagination

Étienne Tempier, in his famous condemnations of 1277, denounced the notion that God could not...

April 11, 2019

The Eight Deadly Sins

In the Western tradition, the seven deadly sins are listed as pride, greed, lust, envy,...

April 09, 2019

The Blasphemy of Calumny

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor” (Ex. 20:16 RSV). Who is our...

March 2019

March 08, 2019

The Puzzle of God

Several theological and philosophical paradoxes emerge as we try to deal with and contemplate the...

February 2019

February 12, 2019

Some Reflections Concerning Pluralism in a Catholic Perspective

When people hear the suggestion that God wills the existence of a variety of religions,...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

The Way of Truth

Jesus told his disciples that he was going to go and prepare a place for...

January 28, 2019

Mystical Theology of Dionysius: Transcendental God-Talk. Conclusion. Part Eleven

Marsilio Ficino, in the opening of his commentary to the Mystical Theology, understood the point...

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