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Taking the Sting out of Death. Living Our Passages Well. The Quality of Life.

07/30/2020

Taking the Sting out of Death Dying is returning home. But even though we have been told this many times by many people, we seldom desire to return home. We prefer to stay where we are. We know what we have; we do not know what we will get. Even the most appealing images of the afterlife cannot take away the fear of dying. We cling to life, even when our relationships are difficult, our

The Beloved Community (Martin Luther King Day)

01/21/2019

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. —Martin Luther King, Jr. [1] As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. saw clearly in the last years of his life, we face a real choice between chaos and community—we need a moral revolution. If that was true fifty years ago, then we must be clear today: America needs a moral revival to bring about beloved community. —William J. Barber II [2] I believe that

Alertness in Solitude

01/16/2017

Not too long ago a priest told me that he cancelled his subscription to the New York Times because he felt that the endless stories about war, crime, power games and political manipulation only disturbed his mind and heart and prevented him from meditation and prayer. That is a sad story because it suggests that only by denying the world can you live in it, that only by surrounding yourself by an artificial, self-induced quietude

FOUR ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LESSONS FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (Part III)

01/21/2015

By Andrew F. Estocin Law #4: Faith is a Thermostat, Not a Thermometer: In the same way that a thermostat sets the temperature in given room, Orthodox Christianity changes our society and is not a mere indicator (or thermometer) of popular culture. Letter from Birmingham Jail is not just a call for social action, it is also a critique of Christianity and that includes our own Orthodox Christian witness today. Rev. King has some harsh

FOUR ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LESSONS FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (Part II)

01/20/2015

By Andrew F. Estocin Law #2: Being Legal Does Not Mean Being Right: “Never forget that everything Hitler Did in Germany was legal.” This warning from Letter from Birmingham Jail points to the tradition of natural law. Natural Law is an integral part of Orthodox Christianity and the thought of Martin Luther King. What is natural law? It is the teaching that just laws participate in and reflect the law of God. Man has a

FOUR ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LESSONS FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (Part I)

01/19/2015

By Andrew F. Estocin “Our Church has never hesitated to fight, when it felt it must, for the rights of mankind….there are times when we must risk everything, including life itself, for those basic American ideals of freedom, justice, and equality, without which this land cannot survive. Our hope and prayer, then, is that we may be given strength to let God know by our acts and deeds, and not only by our words, that

God and Caesar (Part V): The Love of Enemies & The King and His Fool

01/13/2015

The Love of Enemies The theologians of violence forget the Beatitudes. The theologians of non-violence forget that history consists of tragedies. But amongst the violence of history, it is the duty of Christians to manifest the love of enemies, which is the strength of Christ himself. The love of enemies, exercised in the most extreme circumstances, is the only cure for our political neurosis, the desire to escape one’s own death while projecting it on

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Taking the Sting out of Death. Living Our Passages Well. The Quality of Life.

The Beloved Community (Martin Luther King Day)

Alertness in Solitude

FOUR ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LESSONS FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (Part III)

FOUR ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LESSONS FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (Part II)

FOUR ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LESSONS FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (Part I)

God and Caesar (Part V): The Love of Enemies & The King and His Fool

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