August 1, 2020 “You Are Never Satisfied”: Jesus on Whimsical Humanity Whimsical people are never happy. Even God doesn’t suit them. It seems that any argument we make cannot break through the wall of skepticism…
July 19, 2020 The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost: The Healing of a Paralytic In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. When we read the Gospel passages about how Christ raised the…
June 16, 2020 Was Jesus a Revolutionary? Myth Some people say that Jesus was a revolutionary and that because of this He was punished by the authorities. Therefore, it is…
June 12, 2020 The Desire For a Woman: Someone Else’s Wife vs. Your Own Wife Matthew 5:27-32 The apostle Paul continues to unravel the connection between the knowledge of God and morality. We find that after the coming of…
June 2, 2020 The Q: A Mysterious Collection of Jesus’s Sayings There is a theory that the Evangelists Luke and Matthew used a document with the sayings of Christ that has not survived to this…
May 26, 2020 Whom and Why Did Christ Actually Drive Out of the Temple? Some people use the Gospel story about Christ expelling merchants from the Jerusalem temple to substantiate the thesis that a believer has the right…
May 26, 2020 Did Jesus Prophesy the Near End of the World? Jesus is sometimes said to have claimed that the world was coming to an end during the lifetime of His generation and therefore He…
May 24, 2020 Would You Rather Be Blind? The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. John 9:1-38 If you were given the choice between having your physical sight or having…
May 16, 2020 Are We Broken or Transformed? The Reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. John. (4:5-42) Today we are blessed with one of the most profound and rich passages…
May 16, 2020 Tips for Reading the Holy Scriptures Blessed Jerome of Stridon said, “Not knowing the Holy Scriptures means not knowing Christ”. Saint Seraphim of Sarov taught that one should teach one’s…
