"People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not."-Wayne Gerard Trotman I am lately stunned by a co-worker who claims that they are trying to help when they provide unsolicited, mean-spirited feedback. I have trained myself to try and accept her criticism with grace and …
Continue reading There’s a bully in my brain… with apologies to Ms. O’Rourke
Greetings! This blog represents a decision to try my hand at public writing. Before I begin my posts, I beg forgiveness of my audience in advance for my incompetence. I am not very good at writing in complex terms about complex things, things that seem best for an adult to write. Instead, I like to make complex things simple …
Fr. Strickland’s work “The Age of Nihilism” is important in the overall discussion of how we got where we are in the division of Christianity and the history that followed. This book as a closure to his series is an opener to finding humanity in all our modernism. Hopefully we’ll be able to start conversing …
Image of the Book's Title Page “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against authorities, against the spiritual powers over this present darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” (Eph. 6:12). This is the writing from St. Paul which we as Orthodox Christians greatly take to …
Many of today's generalized opinions overlook the micro-fractures in both East and West leading up to the Great Schism and its harrowing aftermath. Observing a more completed context within this book's narrative opened my eyes to see more of the politics which have infiltrated the church over time. In "The Age of Division", Fr. Strickland …
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