Interrupting the Silence

Tag: Genesis 1:26

  • Artisans of the Likeness of God – The Feast of St. Basil the Great

    “‘Let us make the human being according to our image and according to our likeness’ [Gen. 1:26]. By our creation we have the first, and by our free choice we build the second. In our initial structure co-originates and exists our coming into being according to the image of God. By free choice we are Read more

  • Required Reading: The Book of Created Things, Written By The Gulf Oil Spill

    Once a man who was considered to be wise approached St. Anthony and asked him, “How do you ever manage to carry on, Father, deprived as you are of the consolation of books?” St. Anthony replied, “My book, sir philosopher, is the nature of created things, and it is always at hand when I wish Read more

  • Dominion Over All The Earth

    Christianity teaches that the world is not eternal, but that there was a time when the world was not, a time when it had no existence. The world was created ex nihilo, created from nothing. If the world was created from nothing then the threat of returning to nothingness is ever present. The only way Read more