by cutsinger | Sep 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
You speak of occasionally having the sense that something within you, which is “more than you”, is always praying, even in the moments when you are feeling the most distracted and spiritually indolent; and when you have this experience, you say, it’s...
by cutsinger | Sep 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
I believe you’d be wise to get some distance on your emotions. We’re to have cool heads and warm hearts, not hot heads and cold hearts. Not that you’re very close to running the latter risk—your evident compassion seems proof against a low...
by cutsinger | Aug 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
Metaphysically, there is clearly no incompatibility between the divine unicity of God, on the one hand, as this is expressed in the Islamic shahadah, and the divinity of Jesus Christ, on the other hand, as this is expressed in the Nicene Creed. The Christian is not...
by cutsinger | Aug 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
The passage you cite from Ignatius of Antioch—”My love has been crucified” (Letter to the Romans)—is profound indeed. The saint seems to be punning on eros. He means (among other things no doubt) that insofar as the object of his love, Jesus...
by cutsinger | Aug 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
There are of course many things an Orthodox Christian might read concerning Prayer of the Heart. What I often suggest that people read first is a little book by Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), called The Power of the Name. It is a superb introduction to the subject:...
by cutsinger | Aug 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
It’s not enough to read the results of other people’s thinking nor even books about how one might learn to think for oneself. You have to engage in the process itself, and this is not something for which there are formulas or rules. It’s a living...
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