Christ is Risen!

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling death by death, and bestowing life to those in the tombs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HOb3r6GZJM

Designed to Fail

One of the genius bits of Holy Week in the Orthodox Church is that it is so intense, a person can't really do it all. To use St. Paul's analogy of salvation as an athletic event, Holy Week is two-a-days (two workouts a day—the most intense phase of practice for a pre-season sports team). There's …

Picking Rocks

We have a line of bushes along the edge of the house that are slowly dying and need to be removed. When they were put in (before we owned the house) the ground was covered with landscape fabric and then filled with lava rock. The rock needs to be removed before we can proceed with …

Christ as Theoretical Construct Rather Than Person

Since I've gotten back to the first half part of vol. 4 of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics and have been posting about it, a friend sent me a note pointing me in the direction of Adam Neder's book, Participation in Christ: An Entry Into Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics. Since both Eastern Orthodoxy and Adam Neder …

The Innocent Righteousness of Works

Too often a dispute has unintended consequences. In theology nearly all disputes are not between right and wrong, but rather an over- or under-emphasis that leads to error. Heresy (broadly understood) is not a matter of being wrong, it is a matter of being only almost right. But when sides are taken and battle lines …

Surface and Depth

Every depth has a surface but not every surface has a depth, and this is why we should not pay so close attention to surface appearances but rather to the depth of things. -Maximos Constas