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As I mentioned before, the criteria for being on my blogroll is that I feel a certain blog has proved to be a noticeable influence on whatever I’m doing in my own blog. There are a long list of blogs, however, that I read just for enjoyment. Here are four of the best-written of that long [...]

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A: If our world had been formed and filled by some lesser god, I think he would have made the vast mistake of laboring with too straight a back.
His steely arrowed finger would stab the depths, jolting them to fertility. Then he’d raise his dripping arm, and glaring across the sudden plains, he’d loose a lightning lash of life.
Oh, I have some idea in what anguished, [...]

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“Deamons fear the words of holy men and cannot bear them; for the Lord Himself is in the Words of Scripture and him they cannot bear.”
(Words from Athanasius On the Interpretation of the Psalms.)
I think this is what you might call a sacramental view of scripture, and I do find it a “higher” view than [...]

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Today I finished reading C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces. I first read it a few years ago and was almost completely bewildered by it. Yet I have no doubt it helped make me Orthodox.  Now it provides endless material for cogent, deep thought.
It’s funny. You don’t really understand something; but it makes you more Orthodox. [...]

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I realize that few figures lend themselves visually to thoughts of intrigue and mystery more than the hood of a monk. Nevertheless this trend in which exciting fictional stories feature a church as archvillian is distressing to me mainly because of the church’s identification with Christ, whom I love beyond anything. Still, I’m not ready to say that there is [...]

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