For He is Good and Loves Mankind

an Orthodox Christian blog under the patronage of St. John the Theologian

Friday, January 9, 2026

The Mission of Fatherhood

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  We have a priest! Well, we've always "had a priest."  We had Fr. Gabe as our priest-in-charge from the inception of this mis...
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Graceless People

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It seems the more we move into the future, the more we, as a society, lack grace.  Our leaders are, for good or ill, a reflection of us. The...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

The Mission of Transformation

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Transformation is a central theme in the Christian faith.  God takes our feeble and broken souls, and mends us into something better than wh...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

Ideology is Death (Thoughts and Prayers, Part II)

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  For the second time in two weeks, a tragic shooting has taken place.  I do want to talk about my prior post on "Thoughts and Prayers,...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Thoughts and Prayers (and why they aren't the same thing)

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  There was yet another school shooting this week, this time in Minnesota.  It has become reflexive lately for certain portions of our socie...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

What is love (baby don't hurt me)?

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A discussion on an internet forum got me thinking about this topic.  The discussion on the internet forum is between Lutherans, mostly.  It ...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

The Mission of Compromise

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One of the interesting things we've all learned in this Mission is the frequency of compromises we are called to make.  I don't mean...
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