Reconstructing Repentance
Homily for the Sunday of the Prodigal Son; Week two of the Byzantine Lenten Triodion “O Lord, Jesus Christ. Son of God. Have Mercy on me, a sinner” The Parable of “Not This Again.” I have an odd and perhaps scandalous confession to make; I have never been particularly fond of The Parable of the…
Holy God; Wholly Good
Light can be all colors, in every shimmer and each hue, but light cannot be darkness. “O heavenly King, the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth,Who art everywhere and fillest all things.Treasury of blessings, and Giver of life,Come, and abide in usAnd cleanse us from every impurityAnd save our souls, O Good One!” In Nuce: Goodness…
Samsara Sea: A Poem
Trigger warning: it’s not a happy poem Born halfway down a leaking ship;Soaked from the start.The great Leviathan ©️ keeps us from drowning;At monstrous cost.Chaos swells and churns interminably below;Watery graves await in the deep.A boiler holds us above the waves;… at least the upper decks.Everything not in my back yard is fuel;The poor and…
What Great Hatred Pours Forth from the Hearts of the So-called Righteous.
Israeli and American genocide. Oppression from the “godly” When the religious pillars of the “civilized” world permit and even perpetuate rank abuses against whole categories of people, the oppressed will always eventually rise against their oppressors. Such uprisings come from those so desperate that they long to dash the infants of their enemies against the…
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Salutations.
My name is Solomon Svehla. I am an Master of Divinity seminary student with a BA in Biblical Studies and Church History. I am most interested in bringing Eastern Orthodox thought into discussion with current critical and ‘liberal’ discussions.
This blog is for me to share the theological content I am contemplating, the papers I am writing, and the rantings I am unsuccessfully avoiding.
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