Faith
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My Sabbath days are rarely boring. My wife Shira and I often have guests for Shabbat meals on Friday nights and Saturday lunches. And just about every Friday night, Shira and I play Scrabble, a board game that is perfect for Sabbath observers: no electricity and no writing (another Sabbath
Invention of the Holy Cross
Inspired by a post by @Jonah on Micro.blog, I looked into the art of Daniel Matsui. One of the images that captured my attention was the "INVENTION of the HOLY CROSS." The image came with some apocraphyal stories to which I have become accustomed in the Orthodox
Do Not Pass Me Just To Slow Down
I worry about the kind of witness I will present if I'm too obvious about my faith.
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So sentiments expressing objective claims of morality or beauty are still, as in Lewis’s day, found to be offensive, but sentiments expressing identity are seen as sacred. Alan Noble, on C.S. Lewis and education
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Several years ago, I listened to Terry Gross interview the son of a prominent religious leader, who had publicly broken with his father's legacy and migrated to another, rather different branch of the tradition. Gross asked why he had not simply let his faith go altogether. His reply
The ChatGPT Mary Feature
The popular LLM is devoted to the Theotokos.
Flow
On animals and companionship.
The Jesus Juke That Wasn’t
My brother-in-Christ was talking about the best ways to secure your household goods from potential burglars the other day. I reminded him of these words from Jesus: Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Damnable Things Afoot
Regular readers know that I attempt to hold together two theological commitments that sit in tension. First, a hopeful eschatology where God, in the end, is "all in all." Second, a fierce prophetic conviction that what we do here on earth matters and that God will judge the
American Pharisaism
I have wondered much that Christianity is not practiced by the very people who vouch for that wonderful conception of exemplary living. It appears that they are anxious to pass on their religion to all other races, but keep little of it for themselves. […] It is my personal belief, after