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The Chariot of Elijah 10 Aug 2013 | 08:09 pm
At the end of the Prophet Elijah’s life on earth, he was accompanied by his assistant, Elisha. Together, they led an entire community of prophets, located around the old town of Bethel (the place wher...
Where are you? -- a postmodern paschal oration 5 May 2013 | 08:59 am
Where are You? Once upon a time, in a land not so far away (and much closer than you think), a shepherd waited for his friends in the evening. He was waiting for a walk, under the rusting leaves in...
The Cross: Peace over Violence 24 Apr 2013 | 04:59 pm
the odd expectation In Great Lent, we are in a season when the faithful seek the Holy Mystery of Confession, and it is this time of year when a special problem emerges. And that is the issue of Penanc...
The hardship of history and the beauty of icons 25 Mar 2013 | 03:02 pm
The Wikipedia web site begins its description of today -- Orthodoxy Sunday -- with these words: Despite the teaching about icons defined at the Seventh Ecumenical Council in 787, the Iconoclasts began...
Lenten Fairy Tales, Third 18 Mar 2013 | 02:29 am
One of the old buddy pigs came running and found me when I went to ground, napping in the moldering afternoon, and reminded me porcine that one cannot be in two places at one time "that," said he, "is...
Why we fast 16 Mar 2013 | 09:05 pm
Today is the beginning of Lent, which is more accurately called “The Great and Holy Fast.” If I didn’t have a calendar, I would know this simply because the annual barrage of questions and anxieties c...
Lenten Fairy Tales, Second 12 Mar 2013 | 05:45 pm
Along the way a spade appeared, jabbed in dirt. I knew he was down there so I dug him up: he looked "really good," the same which is what you'd expect after a lifestyle of self-embalming. "My brothers...
Lenten Fairy Tales, First 12 Mar 2013 | 05:04 am
There is an enormous pig farm in western Ohio where I woke up at, sandwiched between two slats of slate, the jagged sky and the washed out between-snows wintered earth. I found this notebook in the di...
Things to Think About This Year 1 Jan 2013 | 08:16 pm
That the Absolute is Person. Oneness-and-Threeness, and Oneness-and-Twoness. Instead of one-or-the-other. That Pattern and Freedom unite in Dance. That Necessity can be transfigured by Love. That Chil...
Hidden, secret 25 Dec 2012 | 10:01 am
Bethlehem has opened Eden: come, and let us see. We have found joy in secret: come, and let us take possession of the paradise that is within the Cave. There the unwatered Root has appeared, from whic...
