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Continue reading →: AI and the Quest for Ultimate Truth: the Transfiguration of Creation
I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. But the angel said to me, “Why did you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that…
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Continue reading →: Words to worship to :words: to new worship.
Bless the LORD oh my soul, oh my soul, worship his holy name. In Christianity’s struggle to be united, we have lost much of our holy language. We no longer sing songs for the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three in one and blessed Trinity. Contemporary worship is inspired by…
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Continue reading →: Our Offering of Peace
Today is the Feast for the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, when Saint Simeon held Christ in his arms and declared, “Lord, now let your servant depart in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared in the presence of…
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Continue reading →: Laying Aside Old Garments: Freedom as Healing
For anything unchangeable is not us. The soul is healed as she lays aside garment after garment and “presents herself naked and pure in spirit to the vision of God in a divine vigil.” – Hans Urs Von Balthasar commenting on Saint Gregory of Nyssa I have been reflecting on…
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Continue reading →: The Appearance of Saint Ephraim and His Healing
I want to invite everyone to join me for Saint Ephraim’s feast day on January 3rd this Saturday. Friends are coming over from the Serbian Church and we will read Saint Ephraim’s Akathist at 6:30 PM MST. the Akathist is at the bottom of this article if you want to…
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Continue reading →: The Way Down Is the Way Up
We can only escape shame by shame. The way down is the way up. – Saint Sophrony of Essex My last month as a staff member for CrossRoad has been a series of miracles strung together. My last experience with a program like this was in Vienna as a missionary…
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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…
Cycles of Newness 