Organic Orthodoxy Reclaim the Identity 25 Mar 2023 It so happens that once a woman becomes a mother her identity usually goes for a toss. Everything suddenly becomes riveted around her child. The case of Mary is no…
Organic Orthodoxy The Sundry Kingdom 20 Mar 2023 The Gospel of Luke is impregnated with healing miracles that upend the physiognomic stereotypes prevalent in the first century Greco-Roman culture. For instance, healing of the paralytic (5:17-26); healing of…
Organic Orthodoxy Wrestle with God 14 Mar 2023 Tyre and Sidon were Gentile regions which shared a political alliance with Israel to defeat Philistines, their common enemy. When Israelites crushed Philistines on land, Tyre and Sidon - being…
Organic Orthodoxy Harmony of Will 26 Feb 2023 One of the significant Christological titles that is ubiquitous in the Syriac Liturgical corpus is "Physician". Christ is identified as the Good Physician / Great Physician / Heavenly (Celestial Physician).…
Organic Orthodoxy Nuptial Economy 19 Feb 2023 The Wedding at Cana is a paradigmatic ‘sign’ (semeion - σημεῖον) that somehow encompasses the implications of the other signs. It is not just the first sign but more emphatically…
Organic Orthodoxy Reverberations of Choice 30 Jan 2023 Jonah is a classic example of how interconnected human beings and ecology are that the choices we make have a substantial impact on the entire ecosystem. Jonah typifies that our…
Organic Orthodoxy Annunciation of Peace 21 Nov 2022 Behind the sanitized, antiseptic and cellophane portraits of Mary one can find a despised single mother with callous feet and hands, perspiration on the brow, persevering to sustain her child…
Organic Orthodoxy Oscillating Ones 17 Nov 2022 What are our kids? Entertainers who recite poetry, sing songs or dance to appease us? Or are they impressionable beings on whom the adults wield dominion in the guise of…
Organic Orthodoxy Tread in Travail 1 Nov 20223 Nov 2022 In the process of theologizing, the position of the theologian is of paramount importance. This is very well discovered when we juxtapose the positions of Peter and the Centurion. Since…
Organic Orthodoxy Distortion Of The Cross 14 Sep 202216 Sep 2022 As we celebrate the Feast of the Cross it is most unlikely that one would not hear about sufferings. Yet certain things need to be made blatant. Christ never romanticized…
Urho, The Way 