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You Were Never Meant to Carry This Alone
Read more: You Were Never Meant to Carry This AloneYou Were Never Meant to Carry This Alone There is a quiet moment many spiritually serious people eventually reach. It usually comes after years of sincere effort—reading, praying, seeking, experimenting, trying to live well.……
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God Is Not an Idea You Figure Out
Read more: God Is Not an Idea You Figure OutGod Is Not an Idea You Figure Out Many people I speak with today are not spiritually indifferent.They are spiritually awake—sometimes profoundly so. They have had moments of beauty, insight, healing, or awe. They have……
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Blessings for the Rejected
Read more: Blessings for the RejectedBlessings for the Rejected There are those among us who know the quiet sting of being pushed aside—not because they have done wrong, but because they simply exist in a way that unsettles the familiar. Some……
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To Seek Out New Life: Independent Sacramentalism Through the Lens of Star Trek and the Ideals of the Federation
Read more: To Seek Out New Life: Independent Sacramentalism Through the Lens of Star Trek and the Ideals of the FederationIntroduction: A Federation Imagination and an Ecclesial Disappointment I grew up with Star Trek before I had language for ecclesiology. Before I knew the word sacrament, I knew that bridges were places where diverse……
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An Exhortation for a Wounded Nation
Read more: An Exhortation for a Wounded NationBeloved in Christ, Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. We live in a moment of profound turbulence and sorrow. The wounds of our nation are exposed……
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How Christians Lost Beauty — and Why We Need It Back
Read more: How Christians Lost Beauty — and Why We Need It BackThere was a time when Christians knew that beauty saves. Not in the superficial sense of decoration or aesthetic preference, but in the deep, ontological sense: beauty as revelation, beauty as knowledge, beauty as……
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Epiphany for a Fractured World
Read more: Epiphany for a Fractured WorldIcon of the Nativity What the Magi Still Teach Us Now The Church never keeps Epiphany in the past. It places the Magi in front of us now—not as figures in a nativity set, but……
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Between Egypt and the Cross
Read more: Between Egypt and the CrossThe Holy Family, the Thieves, and Us A homily on the Sunday of the Holy Family 2025 by Subdeacon Joseph Michael On the Sunday of the Holy Family, the Church places before us a……
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Healing as Sacrament: The Body and Spirit
Read more: Healing as Sacrament: The Body and SpiritHealing as Sacrament: The Body and Spirit “The mercy of God is not exhausted in forgiving sins, but extends to the healing of the whole man.”— St. Isaac the Syrian, Ascetical Homilies I I. Introduction……
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Theosis as the Fulfillment of the Gospel
Read more: Theosis as the Fulfillment of the GospelIntroduction: The Church as the Living Extension of the Incarnation In the theology of the Early Church, salvation is not an external transaction nor a mere pardon for sin, but an ontological transformation of……