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Juneteenth(2)
“…in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”
Why does God sing?
The Lord your God is in your midst,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.
— Zephaniah 3:17
Augustine’s Origin of Species
North African bishop Augustine of Hippo (354–430) had no skin in the game concerning the current origins controversies. He interpreted Scripture a thousand years before the Scientific Revolution, and 1,500 before Darwin’s Origin of Species. Augustine didn’t “accommodate” or “compromise” his biblical interpretation to fit new scientific theories. The important thing was to let Scripture speak for itself.
Perfection in pain
At the time of acute self-consciousness at the birth of adulthood, when the soul is still innocent and open, has not been hardened, everything is poured out freely, sometimes too freely, and there is no attempt to guard one’s inner world from being trampled on. The child who has never been hit by a car, if he is not told of the dangers, will have no fear of walking into a busy street.
More in this category:
- The nature of things
- Can a scientist believe in the Resurrection?
- An Interview with Sister Aemiliane
- The Crucifixion of the Paschal Lamb
- What did Christ do for us?
- It’s nothing personal
- Dude, where’s my God?
- At the beginning of Lent
- Cold-Blooded Christianity
- What happened at Whitby?
- Ancestral Versus Original Sin
- In the Temple of Broken Hearts
- The Lost Gospel of Mary
- Hallowe’en: An Orthodox approach
- When Tradition Fractures
- Perichoresis: God and His mother
- Monasticism in the 21st Century
- September 24: The Feast of Saint Silouan
- The Monastic Call
- The Old Testament and Rationalistic Biblical Criticism
- Under the Heaven Tree
- The Way into the Kingdom of Heaven
- Deacons and bishops at the end of the first century
- The Spirituality of the Celtic Church
- Star Wars: Another Point of View
- Pietism as an ecclesiological heresy
- Personal Experience Of The Holy Spirit According To The Greek Fathers
- Call no man “Father”
- God the Logos
- The Fundamental Difference Between East and West
- What’s Wrong with “Spirituality”?
- Sola Scriptura
- Facing up to Mary
- Original sin according to St Paul
- Orthodox Monasticism
- The Pain of the Earth: A Cry for Change
- Kissing: An Act of Religious Devotion
- Why did Christ become Man? (Athanasius, 318AD)