A homily given on Palm Sunday, April, 28, 2024 at St. Stephen the First Martyr Orthodox Church, Crawfordsville, Indiana The Orthodox Church begins Holy Week with a celebration, the Entry of Our Lord into Jerusalem, commonly referred to as Palm Sunday. The remembrance of Jesus arriving in Jerusalem, where He will face betrayal, arrest, trial, […]
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“Self-Appointed Tyranny”:Triumph and the Gospel
I try my best to not talk politics at Church. At seminary we were taught to preach the Gospel, not politics from the pulpit (or, in Orthodox terms, from the “ambo”.) The reason was because a) taking a political position would immediately alienate a portion of the congregation, and b) the point of the sermon […]
Jesus the Loser
Every time I read the scriptures I keep finding that God tends to side with the losers. The poor, the immigrant, the outsider, the refugee, the outcast, the broken, the condemned. This is present in the Old Testament, but is made undeniably clear in the person of Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh, […]
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