Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity
Fr Barnabas Powell comments on our FtFtL podcast…
Our modern society has become so confused about the depth and profound beauty of the human person, and this confusion has increased the amount of destructive tendencies in our lives together. The FtFtL podcast is not just a remedy for this poverty but a deeply Orthodox understanding of a healthy person created in God’s image. As someone who has benefited from the work done in preparation for this… [ read more ]
If fantasy is “pornography of the mind”, does that mean we shouldn’t read Lord of the Rings?
Seeing the title: you might say, what? Is he saying that all imagination and fantasy is pornographic? Well — what do we think about imagination? Have a quick look through your Bible or in the ascetic Fathers for something about the imagination and you may be surprised. There’s a good chance you won’t find the word “imagination” in… [ read more ]
A prayer by St Nikolai Velimirovich used in the 6th session of the FtFtL pastoral program “Forgiving and Forgiven”:
Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them. Enemies have driven me into Your embrace more than friends have. Friends have bound me to earth, enemies have loosed me from earth and have demolished all my aspirations in the world. Enemies have made me a stranger in worldly realms and… [ read more ]
