Perspective
“We humans have a very limited perspective on life, the cosmos and the divine. Our perspectives are limited by our own personal...
Darkness
“The spiritual life consists in moving from light (that which we can readily see, experience, know, namely: creation) to darkness (the...
Morality within Reality
“Christ’s teaching cannot be reduced to morality (“do this because it’s good”). Rather, His teaching is ontological. If God, in His...
Fasting
“The Genesis narrative shows that the relationship between Man and God is not primarily an intellectual one (the contemplative raising of...
Deification
“Self-deification [through culture] is not life-giving but . . . death-bringing.” (Vigen Guroian) “…the whole of our journey through life...
Charity
“Perhaps a great surprise in Christ’s parable of the Last Judgment (Matthew 25:31-46) is that God’s judgment of us is not based on the...
Utopia
“Throughout human history, the existence of evil spirits has been something so obvious that it is practically a universal constant across...
Spiritual Struggles
“In order to encounter God, we must be sincere in prayer…Know that the road we travel in our spiritual life in order to encounter God and...
Repentance (and Remorse)
“Remorse consists of an emotional acknowledgement of an error which arises from a subjective identification of the subjective with the...
Judgmentalism
“The Apostle Peter exhorts us Christians to be “of one mind” which will require us to have compassion for one another and to forgive...