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The Unsearchable and Incomprehensible God
“But who, O LORD, my Lord, will comprehend Your judgment, Or who will search out the profoundness of Your way? Or who will think out the weight of Your path?” Apocalypse of Baruch (4 Baruch), 14:8 “For...
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The Canon of Christ
The earliest Christians did not have any collection of Christian (new testament) scriptures at their disposal, and for at least two generations this continued to be the case. When the letters of...
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We’re All Children Now – A Response to Bledsoe (and Leithart) on Orthodoxy
Peter Leithart (a minister in the PCA, author of multiple books on theology, literature, etc.) has recently re-blogged some thoughts from a counterpart in the “Federal Vision” movement, Rich Bledsoe....
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A Homily on Death
Saint Ignatius of Antioch – one of the earliest bishops of our Church and a disciple of the apostle John – wrote a letter to the Church of Rome, asking them to pray for him as his martyrdom approached....
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Gay Bishops and the Bible
Every year in recent memory has brought yet another mainstream, protestant denomination into the tumultuous debates and Traditional compromises of our present age. Whether the debate is in regards to...
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The Church is Apostolic
The fourth and final attribute of the Church, as found in the Symbol of Faith, is that of “apostolicity.” At the heart of apostolicity is our very experience of God’s Grace in salvation (or Theosis),...
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Building a Wall Around the New Testament
As with most dogmatic developments in the history of the Church, the “closing” of an exclusively New Testament (i.e. Christian) “canon” or “list” of scriptures was inspired by and done in response to...
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A Homily on the Mother of Life
In the wisdom of our fathers, the liturgical calendar of the Orthodox Church begins and ends with the life of Mary: We begin in September with a feast in celebration of her Nativity (being born to the...
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God “Pleased to Punish?” Isaiah 53 in the Septuagint
The Orthodox Church has within Her Sacred Tradition several different analogies and explanations when it comes to explaining the purpose behind the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross. For example, some...
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The Healing of the Cross
In a previous post, I looked at Isaiah 53 (vs. 4 &10) in three different textual traditions, showing that the most ancient witness (the Septuagint) lacks a reference to the Father punishing the...
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Living On Terms of Peace
“… Let the flock of Christ live on terms of peace with the presbyters set over it.” First Epistle of St Clement to the Corinthians, Chapter 54 (AD 80) One of the most widespread and damaging heresies...
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On Kneeling or Making Prostrations on a Sunday
“The practice of not bending the knee on a Sunday is a symbol of the Resurrection, through which we were delivered by the Grace of Christ both from our sins and from the death which was put to death by...
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Saint Basil On the Creation Narrative
“Those who do not admit the common meaning of the Scriptures say that water is not water, but some other nature, and they explain a plant and a fish according to their opinion. They describe also the...
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Accusation and Confession
Accusations can be powerful. The dragon accuses the woman of naivety in following the commandments of the Lord — “‘You will not die by death, for God knew that on the day you eat of it, your eyes would...
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Iconoclasm: The Heresy of Heresies (Part One)
We live in a culture that almost celebrates the annihilation of others. In some cases, that is done through actual, physical violence — whether one considers widespread abortions, capital punishment or...
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Iconoclasm: The Heresy of Heresies (Part Two)
[ Read Part One of this post ] - – - – - – - In his work Franks, Romans, Feudalism, and Doctrine, Fr John S. Romanides writes: “The schism between Eastern and Western Christianity was not between East...
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Right Glory for the Wrong Reasons
I have only been involved with the Orthodox Faith for about three years now, but I have witnessed many, many conversions, catechumenates and otherwise journeys towards the ancient faith. Some have...
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The Triumph of the Church
Over the past few months or so, I have been teaching through the major Ecumenical Councils and other interesting parts of early Church history at our parish, and it has been a very enjoyable and...
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The First 7 Ecumenical Councils – A Brief Summary
When the Roman emperor Constantine I converted to the Christian faith (out of gratitude for military victory through what he believed to be divine intervention), the persecution of the religion was put...
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Is the Orthodox Church “Missional?”
Protestant Christianity in north America is notorious — especially as of late — for both creating and harping on certain, key “buzz words” when it comes to promoting their individual churches and/or...
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