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The Temptation of Power and Control

Michael Josephson, the founder of the Character Counts Coalition, once said "Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses." Very true, In fact, the central message of our Orthodox Faith is the life-long reality of becoming sober and attentive. I was recently struck by someone coming up to me to thank me for…

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Give To Caesar What Is Caesar’s

The development of discernment is a central part of your formation as a Christian. Think of discernment as the ability to do critical thinking, but critical thinking that can actually tell the difference between spiritually healthy and spiritually unhealthy choices. This is why the spiritual disciplines of the Church are vital to your spiritual maturity. It…

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What Belongs to Caesar

NASA recently released the largest picture ever taken. It's made up of 411 snapshots from the Hubble telescope of our nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. The picture is 1.5 billion pixels and takes 4.3 gigs of disk space to load. It's big. But as large as the picture is, the scene it shows is even more…

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