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Continue reading →: Saint Thaney, Innocence and The Buried Heart
To transport ourselves in mind, whenever we suffer tribulation, into universal dimensions makes us like unto Christ. ~ Saint Sophrony of Essex, On Prayer Last week I spent some time praying at the tomb of Saint Mungo in Glasgow, Scotland while on pilgrimage with the monastic community of All Celtic…
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Continue reading →: Celtic Pilgrimage
It is [man’s] God-given task to reconcile and harmonize the noetic (spiritual) and the material realms, to bring them to unity, to spiritualize the material, and to render manifest all the latent capacities of the created order.Bishop Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way I just got back from a two week…
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Continue reading →: On Silence
One of my favorite themes in the early church is Saint Ignatius theme of the silence of God. It has shown to be a recurring theme since I have arrived at seminary. Every question I have had since I have come here that wasn’t answered right out has been answered…
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Continue reading →: Reflections on Healing
These past few weeks in Boston have been the greatest encounter with words than any other period of my life. I could focus on the words, though I have never found healing in analyzing the words thrown at me. But here is healing. Healing no longer “from” an event, but…
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Continue reading →: Revolt or Reveal
These past 7 or 8 years I have been writing code as a software developer and I have been teaching code for four semesters at ISU. Coding is very much “figuring things out” and over the years the cycle of code and business projects has become very obvious to me.…
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Continue reading →: Christ’s Baptism: Mystery of Surrender
But made himself nothing, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. Philippians 2:7 KJV (my favorite verse) I struggle with writing, finding the best word or metaphor for a thought swimming through my head. I like topics with depth and…
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Continue reading →: Twelve Days of Christmas
Twelve Days to Christ’s baptism. Twelve Days of light and silence.
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Continue reading →: Walking into the Mystery with a PhilosopherI wrote this for a friend of mine who asked about my walk into Orthodoxy with Bill at his funeral. May his memory be eternal. The last conversation I had with Bill McCurdy was at bible study on September 21, 2021. He shared two thoughts that completely encompass his faith…
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Continue reading →: Why A Tree of Good and Evil
This past week I wrote out a bit of my life’s path and the bumps along the way. Writing it out showed me some recurring themes of moments of weakness and failure (some completely my fault, some completely out of my hands) that lead to disappointment and sadness. When I…
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Continue reading →: Humble Confidence or How I Found Solace in Suffering
One night, … mentally and spiritually exhausted, St. Silouan wanted simply to bow before Christ in His holy icon, but a terrible demon stood in his way, and he heard from God in his heart, “The proud always suffer from demons.” When he asked God how to defeat pride he…
Cycles of Newness 