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  • Theological English
    • Theological English (0): The Line
    • Theological English (1): Away from the Line – AIO
    • Theological English (2): The Holy Trinity
    • Theological English (3): The Alphabet
    • Theological English (4): Connections – Same Letters, Same Order
    • Theological English (5): Connections – Same Letters, Different Order
    • Theological English (6): Connections – Vowels
    • Theological English (7): Connections – Consonants
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    • Word in Language (2): Alpha and Omega
    • Word in Language (3): Seed and New Life
    • Word in Language (4): Christ the Translator
    • Word in Language (5): WHOLE
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    • Word in Language (7): Time
    • Word in Language (8): Economy
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    • Word in Language (12): Love
    • Word in Language (13): Hate
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    • Word in Language (15): AIO (0)
    • Word in Language (16): AIO (1)
    • Word in Language (17): Christ the Son of God
    • Word in Language (18): Mary, Mother of God
    • Word in Language (19): The First and the Last
    • Word in Language (20): Believe
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  • SEVEN BRIEF LESSONS ON LANGUAGE (2023)
  • STONES OF ITHACA (2019)
  • THE LIFE OF A TRANSLATOR (2013)
  • THE DNA OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (2007)
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    • Turner and the Uncreated Light
    • Turner: The Man and the Angel
    • Turner and the Orthodox Liturgy
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Category: Language

Ukraine-Nuclear

I don’t think we’re particularly interested in the other person’s viewpoint. We like to listen to our own voice, to … More

Chernobyl, Coronavirus, Covid-19, no man’s land, nuclear, Russia, Seven Brief Lessons on Language, Three Percent, translation, Ukraine, Wuhan

I AM

There is a very important distinction in grammar between countable and uncountable nouns. Uncountable nouns are generally concepts, things that … More

AM, countable, creation, Exodus 3:14, Fall, Genesis 1-3, I AM, John 14:6, lamb, Lamb of God, law, Matthew 5:18, Messiah, repentance, uncountable, way

ONE

It is remarkable that the number 1 is a straight line. We teach our children to count from the number … More

counting, God, moon, numbers, one, oxygen, ozone, sun, Trinity

Ownership

We have been placed on this earth, we’re not really sure how, except to say that we emerged from our … More

burning bush, Christ Pantocrator, Exodus 3:14, I AM, I AM WHO I AM, Moses, o wn, one, ownership, translation

Meekness

‘Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.’ This is the third of the Beatitudes that Jesus teaches … More

animals, Apostle Peter, Beatitudes, belief, Greece, Matthew 14:22-33, Matthew 5:5, meekness, spiritual sight, Thassos, walking on water

Time

Time is a line drawn by teachers of English on a whiteboard, with the points past, present and future marked … More

auxiliary verbs, be, deny, do, eternity, future, have, Jesus Prayer, meet, past, prayer of the heart, present, sin, tenses, time, will

The Fall

For centuries now, the Church has been taking a dim view of the Fall, the moment in human history when … More

Adam, body of the Church, Church, Eve, forbidden fruit, Genesis 3, John Zizioulas, procreation, The Fall, translation, tree of the knowledge of good and evil

Mercy, And Not Sacrifice

The icons shine. When you give them even cursory attention, they shine. Icons are in the habit of gathering dust. … More

dust, Folkestone, Gospel of Matthew, icons, Matthew 12:7, Matthew 9:13, mercy, sacrifice

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