I have just finished reading Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity, by my friend Carl R. Trueman. Dr. Trueman is professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove...
Every so often one encounters something that breaks the head as well as the heart. By that I refer to things that not only wring the heart with grief, but also confound the head because they are so perversely stupid. One such thing is...
I am told that during a very interesting and well-run radio show about deaconesses, it was agreed (or at least widely thought) that Phoebe, mentioned famously in Romans 16:1, was a deaconess. But was she? By “deaconess” I mean the...
I am pleased to report that the final volume of the three-volume verse-by-verse commentary on the Psalms entitled The Mystical Psalter is finally available through Amazon. The combined work comprehensive and large, consisting...
I have just now finished re-reading the seminal 2007 book The Language of God, written by physician-geneticist and Christian Francis S. Collins, the man under whose leadership the Human Genome was finally mapped in 2003. It is an...
I note with no surprise whatsoever the news out of England, which is that the Church of England has decided to bless homosexual partnerships. Two priestesses, the Rev. Catherine Bond and the Rev. Jane Pearce had their union blessed at...
I am pleased to announce that The Mystical Psalter volume 2 - Psalms 42 - 89 is now available for purchase through Amazon in both paperback and Kindle editions. Like volume 1 of this 3-volume series, it includes an original translation...
The feast whose season we now in is called “Theophany” or (in many places) “Epiphany”. This latter is not so much an English word as it is a transliteration of a Greek word, epiphaneia. It is often rendered “appearance” in the English...
I am happy to report that the first volume of my new commentary on the Psalter (entitled The Mystical Psalter) is now available through Amazon in Kindle format as well as in paperback. The link to the Kindle version is here at: ...
I have just read two fascinating pieces about Pope Francis’ recent and controversial document Fiducia Supplicans, which officially allows Roman Catholic priests to bless persons in same-sex relationships, one by an Orthodox and the other...
I forget, in the course of my long life as a Christian, how many times I have heard people assure me that “God will never give you more than you can handle”. By this they seemed to mean that God knows my emotional limits and...
If we Gentile Christians are being honest, we secretly find the opening chapter of Matthew’s Gospel something of a bore. This Gospel begins by announcing “the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham”...
I am happy to announce that volume one of my brand new book The Mystical Psalter has been published and is available through Amazon. The book includes a fresh and literal translation of the psalms from the Hebrew, along with comparisons...
On November 10-12 Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston hosted a conference of the St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess, at which Dr. Carrie Frost gave the key-note address, entitled, “Deaconesses in the Orthodox Church...
The St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess has published a file entitled, “Myth-busting: The Truth about Deaconesses in the Orthodox Church”, presenting myths about the proposed creation of a new order of Deaconess and truths to counter...
