New Book by Seminary Director Bastiaan Baan
Lord of the Elements Interweaving Christianity and Nature The four classical elements of earth, water, air and fire are present in Genesis and the New Testament. But while traditional Christianity […]
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A Story of Redemption: By Fyodor Dostoevsky
This is a profound excerpt taken from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov in which Father Zossima reflects on his life from his deathbed: Beloved fathers and teachers, I was born in a distant […]
The Mission of Failure
Failure seems like such a negation. I did not…. It points to the fact that we are imperfect, incomplete; that our reach exceeds our grasp. Yet hidden in that very […]
Christianity as Growing Wakefulness
Lo! I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake, keeping his garments that he may not go naked and be seen exposed. -Revelation 16:15 Christ’s coming […]
Gravity, Warmth and Light: Three Gifts of the Trinity
The Earth has sometimes been compared to a spaceship, a machine hurling through the black void of outer space. In this scientific vision space is stunningly cold and inimical to […]
North American Spring Newsletter 2013
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God the Rebel
…Faith begins at the point where atheists suppose it must be at an end. Our faith begins with the bleakness and power which is the night of the Cross, abandonment, […]
Impossible?!? The Winter Youth Conference 2013
During the festival of Epiphany, we speak of the star that guided the kings as it was entering into the earthly sphere to take on a sunlike presence on earth, […]
The Seminary Fall Newsletter 2012
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The Star of Grace
From time immemorial the stars have been, literally, a guiding light for mankind. In the dark nights of ancient times people lifted their gaze to the starry heavens: to navigate […]