"It is indeed a “new mode of existence” that is birthed in us through Christ. The weakness of the moralist’s approach is not that they are just trying to teach new tricks to an old dog, but that they are trying to teach tricks to a dog who is dead. …
"Fr Stephen's December postings on "unmoral" Christianity have generated a goodly amount of internet discussion. Clearly some are uncomfortable with his presentation of the Christian life as something radically different than "being good" with the …
"We do not just end with theosis, after a lifetime of repentance, hard work, and purification. We begin with theosis; we begin with our death in Christ and our baptismal resurrection; we begin with our re-creation by the Spirit. Life within the God …
Here's a repost from John's blog link:
Fr. Shenouda Maher
The Nativity Fast
Its Length and Manner of Observance:
In the Coptic Church, the fast of the Nativity invariably begins on 16 Hatur of te Coptic Calendar and extends to the eve of 29 Kiahk…
The Fraction by St. Cyril (Fraction of “O Lamb of God”)
O Lamb of God, who through Your sufferings have borne the sins of the world, blot out our iniquities through Your compassion.
O only-begotten of God, who through Your Blood have cleansed th…
"Community is not the place of security...community is necessarily the place where there can be decisiveness... Because community is about welcoming difference...so if we have a community where everybody must be like the founder it's going to very q…
"So there's something very particular... Not just living together...but a meeting...and meeting is a sort of...something happens, as if we've been bonded together as if in a moment of Communion, mutual presence, and what I think we've become much cl…
"To discover that to be a human being and therefore to be a Christian is to learn how to listen to people and to reveal to people, not to seek to convert them, but to reveal to them that they are precious."
Jean Vanier
In 1964, Jean Vanier, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, created the first L’Arche community in the village of Trosly in France. Forty-nine years later there are 146 L’Arche communities for the developmentally disadvantaged arou…
On a section entitled "Overdetermination", Roger Scruton mentions Kantian ethics and writes:
"Consider the evolutionary psychologist’s explanation of altruism as we find it delicately and passionately expounded by Matt Ridley in his book The Origin…
Rem are there any theological or logical reasons for current use or disuse or the diaconate today? Ie. The way that many in the Church understand Deacons today seems more like a reduction no?
Sister Vassa Larin: Orthodoxy Is Not a Religion of Fear
http://www.rocorstudies.org/interviews/2009/05/04/vienna-may-4-2009-sister-vassa-larin-orthodoxy-is-not-a-religion-of-fear/
"Be that as it may, I would nonetheless agree that history is gene…
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2010/10/christian-not-pagan-origins-of.html
And
http://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2012/10/how-christians-made-halloween-satanic.html
One more
http://orthodoxwm.blogspot.com
The Orthodox Women’s Ministry (OWM) aims to launch its first international Orthodox conference. The conference’s main objective is to establish an understanding of the role of women from a historical, theolo…
Here's another interesting excerpt by Jean Vanier:
"We are taught that we must seek success individually, for we are in a society where we must compete, or die. This means that we are obsessed by efficacity, by work and by recognition. We want to …
I really like what St John Chrysostom says in Homily on the Gospel of Matthew 18.1, using the translation found in The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, Matthew 1-13 (Chicago: InterVarsity Press, 2001), 118.