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Trusting the Eye-witnesses: A Reply to Sullivan’s Christianity in Crisis Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 5 October 2017 The April 2 edition of Newsweek Magazine featured a piece (just in time for Western Easter) by journalist Andrew Sullivan.  It is a heartfelt piece, urging its readers to ignore (i.e. reject) all fo...

The Gospel According to “Firefly” Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 4 October 2017 The Firefly ship Serenity             For a preacher who loves to mine contemporary culture (that ephemeral thing) for theological nuggets, the late TV series “Firefly” represents a rare gift.  Each...

Ecclesiastical Nostalgia Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 27 May 2017 Bishop Pankraty of Troitsa with Metropolitan Jonah If one is the type that is easily discouraged, one can find today much that is discouraging—secularism is making inroads, even in the Orthodox Chur...

The Ravens of Farne Jane G. Meyer 25 May 2017 The Ravens of Farne: A Tale of Saint Cuthbert by Donna Farley published by Conciliar Press ISBN: 978-0-9822770-5-8 Softcover, 32 pages, $14.95 Two years before this story about the ravens of Fa...

Aliens Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 13 May 2017             The Church has classically been described by four adjectives:  one, holy, catholic and apostolic.  If I were looking for a more concise way to sum up these attributes, I would choose one...

On the Death of the Wicked Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 25 November 2016 The news, on this Sunday evening May 1, is full of the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of American troops inPakistan.  I listened to both President Obama’s announcement of the death, and Pri...

Saints, Bollandists, and the Weight of History – and a Commercial Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 27 September 2016 St. George           Since the Church started its earthly sojourn about two millenia ago, it has waded through a lot of history, and this historical journey has left its mark upon it, for good a...

“The Abolition of Man” by C.S. Lewis: a Prophecy and a Challenge Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 10 September 2016 Evidence for C.S. Lewis’ status as a prophet could be argued from two of his works, one of which is The Abolition of Man, written as a pamphlet in 1943.  (The other work is a short essay entitled, “...

Back to the Catacombs Fr. Lawrence R. Farley 19 August 2016 Fr. Alexander Schmemann, in his essay “A Meaningful Storm”, described the history of the Church as consisting of a series of layers. The earliest layer (and most fundamental, I would suggest) is th...