Life in Christ frees us to build intimacy with integrity
How do we find true fulfilment? Why repentance is hope, life and joy.
Last time I mentioned that society cannot even really define what constitutes pornography, but that in seeing how pornography is a parody of iconography helps us to understand not only precisely what it is, but also why it is so destructive.
I said that a pornographic image is a parody of the icon, a demonic twisting of the goodness of the image… [ read more ]
How prevalent is pornography in our society?
In this series of podcasts, I’ve been talking a lot about the relationship between image and ultimate Reality, and about how the icon manifests to our senses a deeper, fuller, ultimate Reality that it is all too easy for us not to bring to conscious awareness. By manifesting that fuller Reality to us, the icon permits us to enter into relationship and communion with that fullness… a fullness… [ read more ]
How do we venerate the image of God in one another? And what does it signify when we abuse one another?
As Orthodox, we all have the experience of venerating icons. Speaking for myself, I know that my experience varies… sometimes I fail to give it my full attention, being self-conscious in front of others waiting behind me; or rushing on to the next thing; or sometimes feeling too much shame and not wanting to… [ read more ]
