"It's not a "what." It's a "Who." And with that caveat, my initial lesson in becoming Orthodox began.
You see, I always thought that the Christian Faith was about giving mental assent to certain doctrinal precepts and saying the "proper" words. I thought that I could argue and use "apologetics" to convince others that my version…
Jesus gave us many promises as he preached and taught during His ministry. The problem is we want to pay attention to the "happy" promises like "ask, and it shall be given to you." We have a bit more trouble hearing this promise to us from Jesus: "If they persecuted me, they will persecute you…
Jesus gave us many promises as he preached and taught during His ministry. The problem is we want to pay attention to the "happy" promises like "ask, and it shall be given to you." We have a bit more trouble hearing this promise to us from Jesus: "If the persecuted me, they will persecute you…
In 1972 Stevie Wonder released the song Superstition. The opening guitar licks are still one the the most famous opening lines of any song I remember from my youth. But the lyrics always fascinated me, I guess because I was raised in the rural South and we had lots of superstitions. Things like black cats…