Holy Nativity Orthodox Church

[A wordy offering] In Charles Williams’ novel Descent into Hell , one of the characters, an old man and a wise poet, Peter Stanhope, helps ...

“Do not deceive yourself with idle hopes/ That in the world to come you will find life/If you have not tried to find it in this present worl...

In Charles Williams Descent into Hell , one of the characters contemplates "a good so alien as to be terrifying."  I think that is...

We are all tempted at various times to think that if the conditions of our life were different, we could serve God better.  This is not wisd...

I watched two coyotes frolic in our field today.   One of them was probably the one that got “Lucky Ducky” a few days ago.  Lucky was an ama...

As I have been reading Emma , I have been repeatedly struck by the importance of truth in Emma’s growth. I think this is one of the reasons...

Communities: more than one.  Most of us move in and out communities.  The advent of modern transportation (beginning with the railway in the...

[I have been asked to give a talk on "community" to a group of zealous, young, mostly Mennonite Christians who have been trying fo...

Mercy and grace, in as much as we use these words to refer to God, can refer to the same thing.  That is, both mercy and grace--and love and...

I’m reading Jane Austen’s Emma again because of a sentence I read in Elder Porphyrios’ Wounded By Love . In a passage on the dangers of pr...

Forgiving, again, and again, and again.  Forgive me if I carry on with this topic forgiveness, even if I get repetitive.   When I was a k...

Ostensive Lyme asked whether Christians "need to" forgive the unrepentant.  The short answer is yes.   I can see why someone might...

We forgive those who trespass against us, don’t we?  I have been wondering about this as I have discussed the topic of church community life...