by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon When we say that God made the Cosmos in freedom, we mean that nothing outside of God had to be. Modern philosophers ask---as philosophers have done for centuries---why is there something instead of nothing? This very sane question rests on the simple insight that … [Read more...]
Why The Eternal Word Was Baptized
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon From the traditional accounts of Jesus' Baptism, the Gospel of John preserves only one detail: the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus in the likeness of a dove. This detail is preserved, moreover, not directly in narrative itself, but in a quotation from John the … [Read more...]
The New Year: The Mystery of Time
by Fr. Alexander Schmemann On New Year’s Eve we feel the mystery of time more powerfully than at any other time. We feel, in other words, that its flow – in which we live and in which everything constantly vanishes as the “past” and constantly places us face to face with the unknown future – … [Read more...]
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