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Chaos Is The Enemy of Peace

Newspaper words texture Isaac Newton once said, "Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." How I resonate with that. Simplicity is the enemy of confusion and chaos. I'll never forget the story of a Third world visitor to the US...

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Is Speaking in Tongues Real?

It's one of (if not the) fastest growing forms of Christianity in the world, and it's the movement I came from when I converted to Orthodoxy so many years ago. I'm talking about the Pentecostal movement. And one of the most distinctive aspects of Pentecostalism is something called "speaking...

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To Love Is To Understand

"Oh, come on. You know good and well I didn't mean that the way you are taking it!" Frankly, I couldn't get over that this person so misunderstood me. It almost felt like it was on purpose to discredit what I was saying. After a few deep breaths, and...

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The Power Of The Eyewitness

Ask any police officer or investigator and they will tell you having an eyewitness to an event is great, and not so great. The reason is eyewitnesses are notorious for filtering what they see through what they think they remember. So, we were trained how to weed out what...

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What Idols Lead You Astray?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn once said, “We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.” I wish I had learned this earlier in my life. I would have avoided some painful idolatries. But we humans are slow learners. And over and over again we come to the end of what we...

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Normal Orthodoxy Invites Us to Repentance

If you had to choose between self-esteem and self-awareness what would you choose? By the way, it's a trick question! I remember when there was this emphasis on self-esteem becoming so very central to our educational process for children. And I remember when there were even public service announcements during...

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