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Recent content by Thekla

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    Question - a quote by maybe St Maximos

    I see - and thank you for responding !
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    Question - a quote by maybe St Maximos

    I read it in a paper, copied it, and unfortunately have no other info (crashed computer). If you don’t mind, what about the statement seems off to you ? Thanks and best to you in Christ
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    Question - a quote by maybe St Maximos

    Would appreciate help identifying the source text and correct wording for a quote attributed to St. Maximos the Confessor. I’ve misplaced the link where I read it. “The void beheld the beauty of the pre-eternal Logos and repented of its nothingness.” thanks so much for any help anyone can offer...
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    memory eternal!

    Memory Eternal
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    Indoctrination in the Doctrines Arising from Gender Ideology Taking the Form of Mandatory Workplace Sexual Harassment Training

    The fact of 2 biological sexes in humans is just a biological fact - there are no such things as hermaphrodites, just 2 sexes with variations within the 2 sex classes - is not a matter of a rhetorical style used by the fathers; it just is. And of course the consensus of the fathers is as you...
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    Indoctrination in the Doctrines Arising from Gender Ideology Taking the Form of Mandatory Workplace Sexual Harassment Training

    Thought I’d add some good news: an op ed in the WSJ, signed by 21 specialists from 8 countries has criticized the US standards for child transition care as being of low quality. This fact, based on numerous reviews of existing evidence, is behind the about face on child transition in Finland...
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    Indoctrination in the Doctrines Arising from Gender Ideology Taking the Form of Mandatory Workplace Sexual Harassment Training

    I hope it’s okay to weigh in independently on the trans issue - which preceded Money and arose in part out of the centering of male desire and its cultural acceptance. Here I outline a bit of centering secular male desire - as the trans movement owes a great to male cross dressing fetish...
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    Indoctrination in the Doctrines Arising from Gender Ideology Taking the Form of Mandatory Workplace Sexual Harassment Training

    First, sorry this has taken so long - life got busy ! I do agree there are dangers with both extremes, and I’m not confidant that I can identify one as being more dangerous than the other. The path to danger may be different, but humans can find a pitfall in any path and we do. There is also...
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    We See Now What Our Lord Prophesied to Us

    However this movement toward true love for God is enacted, perhaps some of the order might reveal to us our particular wounding and the means in Christ of its healing; God knows us best, and He will always work with full knowledge of us (something we can never have about others, and even about...
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    We See Now What Our Lord Prophesied to Us

    indeed - and to the central point it is our potentially loveless response, as we know something of the love of God, that we can address. His love is transforming; our loving response to others (whether or not we like or approve of them) may eventually help open the door to their love of God...
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    We See Now What Our Lord Prophesied to Us

    It doesn’t sound contrary actually. The target has changed (in my youth it was communists, Catholics, African Americans, then Latinos, then and now women although the form has changed), but I don’t consider a change in target to be a change. I do think it’s important for our love to not grow...
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    We See Now What Our Lord Prophesied to Us

    I’m not sure my comment has anything to do with depression or education; instead, that there is much that goes unnoticed, and the above example is not unique to this era, just a more obvious form. In the US, we slot things like homelessness, mental illness and other challenges under political...
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    We See Now What Our Lord Prophesied to Us

    I‘m sorry if this sounds contrary, but there has been so much of this kind of attitude for the 40 years of my adult life, this example just seems ordinary. The way it‘s been expressed was different, but the disposition is consistent. The horrors we have failed to even notice are yet another...
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    Indoctrination in the Doctrines Arising from Gender Ideology Taking the Form of Mandatory Workplace Sexual Harassment Training

    It would seem to me that we must always work to disentangle societal assumptions (beliefs or habits of actions/acceptance) from what we might make of theology; those assumptions in each era of history and embedded in culture that we are ‘unaware’ of except in retrospect. Or, how to inspect each...
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    I don’t even know what to think anymore

    There are numerous feeders into any problem - no fault divorce was a response to a problem (women in truly dire situations were required to provide evidence in order to flee a dangerous or a deeply dysfunctional relationship). Backlash against content empty rigidity and failing trust in...