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...
Forgiveness
“Forgiveness is so terribly hard. On a psychological level, it feels dangerous. The shame engendered by any insult or injury is our...
Hostility
“Too many people today insist on preserving whatever “dividing wall of hostility” they can use to promote their vain desires for power,...
Participation
“…our modern culture believes that relationships with other people are merely psychological phenomena – they are all in our head. There...
Knowing
“True knowledge changes us. “If only I had known,” can also mean, “If only I had been a different person.” Knowledge, in this biblical...
Blame
“St. John Chrysostom writes an encomium of Abraham, pointing out that nothing in his life prepared him for such faithfulness to God. For,...
Promises
“According to Bishop Kallistos Ware, “Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is...
Hope
“Many people indeed live lives of “quiet desperation” simply because they have no hope and cannot imagine where hope would begin. The...
Providence
“The Christian belief about all that exists in creation is that it is good. That the universe exists is itself good and is the work of...
Alignment
“There is only one God, so that God is the God of every human being no matter what they believe or do. There is only one mediator between...