Christianity cannot be reduced to a philosophy, a religion, a moral system, an ideology, a political party or system, or any other ‘ism’ or ‘ology.’ Christianity has to do with the destruction of death, the resurrection of the dead, and the re-creation of creation to make it capable of receiving the whole fullness of God. January 27, 2013The Kingdom of God is expressed in various images: It is the Heavenly Jerusalem, the City of God, Paradise, a Banquet Feast, a Bridal Chamber, Heaven, the New Creation (Or: “re-creation of creation). The door to the Kingdom of God is baptism into Christ’s death in order to share His resurrection by receiving the Holy Spirit. Palm Sunday 2020The Church is not an institution or corporation. The Church is the experience of ‘other mysterious worlds’ in the Holy Spirit. This ‘other mysterious world’ is the heavenly Jerusalem described in the letter to the Hebrews. It is God’s kingdom, proclaimed throughout the Gospel. It is a taste of paradise or the bright morning star of St. Peter’s epistle. It is also the house of the Father in the parable of the Prodigal Son, who, remembering his father’s house, realized he was in a bad place and that there was an infinitely better place to be. Mid-Lent - Sunday of the Cross, 2010Apostolic preaching is not just about Christ but is rooted and grounded in the mystery of the new creation brought about by the resurrection of Christ. October 15, 2017The essence of Orthodox Christianity is the resurrection of Christ from the dead and our resurrection in Him. Resurrection is not to be confused with the idea of the“immortality of the soul,” which has to do with a disembodied spirit.A common conception of “life after death,” often expressed in obituaries, envisions an “immortal soul” automatically floating to a “higher and better place.” Such a belief actually makes resurrection irrelevant. But in the Bible, death and disembodied souls are unnatural fruits of ‘original’ sin…. Sunday of the Myrrhbearing Women, 2019
