We gathered to discuss the event of Jesus' appearance to His disciples and to Thomas (John 20:19-31). The brother whose turn it was to speak to us, led us with words that revive the heart. What struck him first was that the disciples, after Jesus appeared to them and commissioned them with what God the ...
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Orthodox Ethics
Ethics of the Country
It was not the war raging in our vicinity that compelled me to write, nor was it what befalls us of its shrapnel, or rather it was not the only thing that compelled me, but it was also this aggravated wound that we were not able to protect our military and security institutions and their ...
Read moreObeying the Goodness
Mahmoud Darwish’s recommendation to President Mahmoud Abbas was to tell those who are occupying their land: “take my mother’s land by the sword, still, I will not sign my name to sell even a single inch of the thistles around the corn fields”. The recommendation is valid for all the peers of the two Mahmouds ...
Read moreA Disgrace of a Homeland
A friend of mine showed me a footage of a nursery, in which some female employees were abusing infants, both verbally and in action. Does such kind of iniquity exist?! My friend confirmed that the video is authentic, and that the nursery, in which this vicious abuse took place (read it in the sense of ...
Read moreThe Secret of Victory
There is no beast in the world fiercer than a human being who does not care about people’s labors, but rather charges them with blasphemy because of those labors. This is something of a jungle ethic. I am not talking about the beast who made a kingdom for himself in a faraway forest, but rather ...
Read moreSilence in Politics!
I now have a political solution to the political programs! I am speaking seriously. You must be watching our local channels! The news of our country is drawn from here first. I am just like you. I will tell you. A few days ago, my son, who has concluded his visit to us yesterday, went ...
Read morePower in Reality
We grew tired. For whatever reason, you rise to your guns, and shoot randomly in the air. You are not discouraged by the tragedies that your fire may cause in the body of this homeland, and what terror it spreads among your fellow countrymen who are already tired of everything. Your elders have addressed you. ...
Read moreTen NOs
I have ten NOs gifted to me by a friend who had espoused living in peace. He said to me: 1. Do not hurt someone you love with a word you know will hurt him. 2. Do not give him a distorted image of himself. 3. Do not remind him of the good you have ...
Read moreHow do we respond?
A friend of mine handed me a few papers on written topics of many kinds, ecclesial and others, as well as comments thereon, which he had copied from social media. I am interested in comments. I am not relaying to you what you do not know. Most people, if they comment on something that bothered ...
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