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Straight from the Heart: July 2015
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Straight from the Heart. Orthodox Reflections by Father Lawrence. Friday, July 24, 2015. The Reality of Demonic Possession. A great gulf separates those who read the Scriptures over the shoulders of the Fathers and those who read over the shoulders of modern secular academics. The former are open to the possibility that the ancient worldview might have something to teach us, while the latter dismiss it utterly as primitive, unsophisticated, and unscientific. He was not alone, and a number of people today...
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Straight from the Heart: Articles
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Straight from the Heart. Orthodox Reflections by Father Lawrence. Ex Oriente Vox: an Eastern Response to Dr. Allert" (from Fideles: A Journal of Redeemer Pacific College. Vol 3, 2008). Book Review of "The Shack". Book Review of "John Chrysostom and the Jews". Been a Long Time Gone": Reflections on Constantinople. The Spirit of '70" (from The Orthodox Church. Fall 2008, p. 7). A Return to Tradition" (from The Orthodox Church. Pascha 2008, p. 9). Back to the Catacombs" (from The Orthodox Church. OCA (Archd...
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Straight from the Heart: January 2015
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Straight from the Heart. Orthodox Reflections by Father Lawrence. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Newspapers are always happy to cover bad news—as the old saying has it:. 8220;If it bleeds, it leads”. Stories of kindness and heroism are not considered news in the same way as are stories of atrocity and disaster—and massacre. Consider the coverage given to the slaughter in Paris of late associated with the Charlie Hebdo. Consider the slaughter of innocents in Syria at the hands of ISIS. It seems that in my n...
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Straight from the Heart: The Reality of Demonic Possession
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Straight from the Heart. Orthodox Reflections by Father Lawrence. Friday, July 24, 2015. The Reality of Demonic Possession. A great gulf separates those who read the Scriptures over the shoulders of the Fathers and those who read over the shoulders of modern secular academics. The former are open to the possibility that the ancient worldview might have something to teach us, while the latter dismiss it utterly as primitive, unsophisticated, and unscientific. He was not alone, and a number of people today...
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Straight from the Heart: Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?
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Straight from the Heart. Orthodox Reflections by Father Lawrence. Sunday, July 12, 2015. Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Franklin Graham (son of the famous evangelist Billy Graham) opined on NBC Nightly News. That Muslims pray to a “different God” than do the Christians. What are we to make of such assertions (often repeated since first made by Graham and Vines)? Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? To worship the same God? What about suc...
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Straight from the Heart: May 2015
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Straight from the Heart. Orthodox Reflections by Father Lawrence. Friday, May 22, 2015. Those for whom ancient history is irrelevant and who equate “old” with “out-dated” (or better yet, “medieval” with “barbarically primitive”) will have trouble appreciating the Fathers of the First Council of Nicea, since they met and produced their work well over a thousand years ago, in 325 A.D. How could a creed so old be remotely relevant today? A single “i”? With the Father or homoiousios. He was of “ like. The et...
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Straight from the Heart: November 2014
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Straight from the Heart. Orthodox Reflections by Father Lawrence. Saturday, November 29, 2014. The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever. Our experience of living in North America today is very different than was the experience of living in Byzantium in the fifth century, or in Holy Russia in the nineteenth century—or even in post-Soviet Russia now in the twenty-first century. Every culture is different, and these differences profoundly impact on the life of the Church and its mission to those around it.
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Straight from the Heart: March 2015
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Straight from the Heart. Orthodox Reflections by Father Lawrence. Monday, March 30, 2015. Congratulations: It's a Baby Girl…Maybe". An article about a presentation made in my neighbouring province of Alberta some time ago made me wonder if I didn’t live in the Twilight Zone rather than Canada. Twelve years ago, a baby girl was born in Alberta by the name of Wren Kaufman. Soon after her birth, the customary birth certificate was issued, containing the information that she was “F”, a female. It does not co...
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Straight from the Heart: December 2014
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Straight from the Heart. Orthodox Reflections by Father Lawrence. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. St Basil: a Proper Bishop. St Basil lived and worked in the fourth century, when the Church was just starting to work hand in glove with the Roman state. The new relationship took some getting used to:. Before this the Christians tried to avoid the State and its police whenever they could, since the coming of the Roman police (i.e. soldiers) was often a prelude to Christian martyrdom. 8220;Everyone else has yi...
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Straight from the Heart: April 2015
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Straight from the Heart. Orthodox Reflections by Father Lawrence. Friday, April 17, 2015. The Death of Dialogue. 8220;Dialogue” is a happy word, along with other happy words like “inclusive”, “tolerance”, and “acceptance”. We do not assume we are correct in all our views to such a degree that we will not even give an opposing viewpoint a respectful hearing. Our western civilization, I suggest, is based on a willingness to dialogue. Their mind is already made up, and the arguments of the other person are ...
