He told me "Never say 'never.'" Of course, at the time I missed the humor in that contradictory command. But, still, there is wisdom there. Whenever I counsel couples or…
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Bishop Athanasios of Kenya and Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco
I am just back from the "Bringing Orthodoxy to America" Evangelism Conference in Portland, OR.…
"Count your blessings. Name them one by one. Count your many blessings, see what God has done." When I sang that old hymn as a boy, I wondered what it…
She said this to me with such painful expression. I had really let her down by wondering aloud if another one of our mutual friends was really going to follow…
A great man once said that "The Greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions." We so often deceive ourselves not because we want to be deceived but because…
"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones, after all." So says the author of Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder. And I…
What provokes you? Politics? Religion? Race? Inequity? Violence? Chaos (OK, this one is a personal provocation!)? No matter what might provoke you to action, if you allow the provocation to…
It seems we've been focusing on being awake this week and today is no exception. In fact, I want to really dive deep today in the central wisdom of the…
Folks, there's just one use for a cross. No ambiguity. No "shades of meaning." The only use for a cross is to kill someone. Sorry for the stark language right…
Keith Green, an amazingly talented musician and singer from the 1970's, wrote this:
Like a foolish dreamer, trying to build a highway to the sky
All my hopes would come tumbling down,…