The Consumer It’s easy to view church as just another “commercial service.” After all, we’re used to all sorts of services in our society. There are shopping centers that seek to serve our material needs. There are restaurants that seek
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Learning to Swim I learned to swim at an early age. I remember, before I started taking official lessons, my father taught me the basics of swimming. He would hold me on my back and teach me to float. In
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What does it mean to be a Christian? In today’s world, with so many denominations, and with so many people becoming “nones,” it’s a good question to ask. Perhaps, the Christian Life is Flashy? However, by asking that question, I
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“Fr. Dustin, aren’t all those extra services (feast days, Vespers, Matins) just for monks and retired people?” Here’s my brief response.
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One time, while I was serving Liturgy, I turned around to say a prayer, but I couldn’t remember what to say for the life of me! How could this happen?
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I think our seasons are mixed up. At first, I didn’t think spring would ever arrive. Then, when it finally did stop snowing, it got so hot that I wondered, What happened to spring? Now, with all the rain, I
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At the Orthodox celebration of Pentecost, the Gospel reading comes from John 7, which is a story about Jesus celebrating the Feast of Sukkot? But, if it’s Pentecost, why would the Church have us read about Sukkot? How does that
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As I thought about the theme of one of the Easter Sundays, the Myrrhbearing Women, I wondered: what’s the deeper symbolic meaning that the first witnesses of the resurrection were female? Then, the answer came to me through the movie Shrek.
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Today is Thomas Sunday, the day we remember how Thomas wanted to put his finger in the marks made in Jesus’ hands by the nails and his side by the spear. He wanted to confirm that this man, the crucified
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Listening closely to the hymns of Palm Sunday, there’s one theme – among many – that reappears. It can be found the 2nd Apolytikion: “We were buried with you through baptism…and thus by your resurrection, we have been granted immortal
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