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Sophiology, Eastern Orthodoxy, Orthodox Church politics, attacks on church-state separation in America, religion’s influence on shaping domestic public policy, and the religious radicalism that crucifies Jesus everyday in the United States.

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Great Lent – Walking with Fools for Christ

The Eastern Orthodox Church does not celebrate Ash Wednesday.  Preparation for Pascha (Easter) formally begins on “Clean” Monday, February 27th.  It marks the start of Great Lent or the Great Fast in the Orthodox calendar.  During every Great Lent there is hope that the days leading up to Pascha are restorative and transformative.  This year [...]

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Elvis has left the building!

The bus left.  The train departed.  The horses fled the barn.  Elvis has left the building!  Increasingly, more of the faithful are ignoring religious leaders due to false humility, being out of touch, or just getting it wrong too many times and not having the security to admit it.
As I’ve observed many times in the [...]

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Join My Walk with Sophia

Friends -

The Holy Spirit is Holy Sophia (Divine Wisdom).

Moral, social, and ethical problems like hate, injustice, violence, discrimination, and religious radicalism still divide us. Our differences, misunderstandings, and difficulty to love one another can be overcome from a Christ centered Sophiological outlook on the world.

Please join me in an extraordinary spiritual sojourn as Holy Sophia, the Holy Spirit invites us to a fuller realization of the Christian faith united as one, more harmonious family.

Your Brother,

Paul