Reflections in Christ

Fall officially begin at 10:21 a.m. EDT on Thursday, September 22.  From my personal—and, admittedly, “subjective”—perspective…

If one didn’t know better, one might guess that our salvation started with the birth of Christ at Bethlehem.  After all, that was…

Ironic indeed, that the Olympic Games—which displayed an array of highly disciplined specimens of physical prowess and stamina…

Missionary work no longer commands the cultural respect it once did.  Indeed, missionary work is often grouped together with…

“Strictly speaking, a system of ethics which does not make death its central problem has no value and is lacking in depth and earnestness”...

The Nicene Creed was created to exclude.  This goes against the grain of our modern secular society, where the word “inclusive” has…

We recently celebrated the Great Feast of Pentecost on June 19.  All of the subsequent Sundays of the liturgical year, until the pre-lenten…

When the great boxing champion Muhammad Ali died recently, events in his life were reviewed in the media. One of…

At the Vespers of Pentecost that will be celebrated in all of our parishes on Pentecost Sunday—which falls on June 19 this…

In the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed we profess, “Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was…