A visit from our Ethiopian friends () If we find fault in others, our self-indulgent attitude keeps us from having a successful interaction with God. Prayer is born of love, while fault-finding, idle talk and self-indulgence are the death of prayer. Love and prayer are interconnected because both involve God,

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The Veneration of the Holy Virgin in the Ancient Church All the early reformers, including Luther and Calvin, believed Mary to be Ever Virgin. The practice at the time was to refer to all cousins as siblings, and none of the early Christians believed Mary had born any children other

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Addressing the youth of the Ethiopian cathedral in Seattle Moving on to the Horizon Recently I spoke with an old friend of forty years, an Episcopal priest who is dying of a rare form of cancer. The day I called him was the second anniversary, to the day, that his

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