Kallistos Ware Blog

I am starting a new side blog dedicated to the life and thought of Bishop Kallistos Ware, who has been a very important part of my Christian growth and formation the last couple of years, and who -- as far as I can tell -- does not have any other online compedium of his available articles, lectures, etc. I commend him to you, and hope you will find him as nourishing and inspiring as I have.

http://www.kallistosware.blogspot.com/

And The Wolf Shall Lie Down with the Lamb.

This is a video of a Serbian Orthodox Monk and a wolf. I have read stories of saints and very holy men and women who could befriend and "tame" wild animals (St. Francis of Assisi, St. Seraphim of Sarov, etc.), but I have never seen anything like this. I do not understand the narration - but no words are necessary in this video. The reality speaks for itself.

Hauerwas on the Reformation

"So on this Reformation Sunday long for, pray for, our ability to remember the Reformation – not as a celebratory moment, not as a blow for freedom, but as the sin of the church. Pray for God to heal our disunity, not the disunity simply between Protestant and Catholic, but the disunity in our midst between classes, between races, between nations. Pray that on Reformation Sunday we may as tax collectors confess our sin and ask God to make us a new people joined together in one might prayer that the world may be saved from its divisions."

Read it all here.