May 7, 2012

Saint John Climacus writes in The Ladder that the beginning of prayer consists in chasing away invading thoughts…

Apr 29, 2012

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending and speak without offending.   Source: floating about the Internet for years.</>

Apr 25, 2012

Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow...

Apr 25, 2012

Lord, Thou knowest better than I know myself that I am growing older and will some day be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion...

Apr 25, 2012

In his De Vita Contemplativa the Alexandrian Philo makes an extremely remarkable description of an ascetic community with which he was familiar and which was settled not far from Alexandria...

Apr 23, 2012

A group of pastors and former youth ministry leaders suggest that today's youth ministries should be disbanded...

Apr 23, 2012

In paradise, anger was blessed. The Lord God sowed it in man to give him an instrument for violently repulsing from himself every trick of the devil that aims to separate him from the true God...

Apr 22, 2012

And as you stand before this Christ you will do so alone. You will not be able hide in a crowd. When you see Christ as he is, for who he is, you will not be neutral...

Apr 19, 2012

"Cold" isn't a thing. It's a way of describing the reduction of molecular activity resulting in the sensation of heat. Cold is a description of a circumstance in which heat is missing.

Apr 18, 2012

I feel a calling to help people know a lot less so they can know anything at all.