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A Beginner’s Guide to Spirituality: The Orthodox Path to a Deeper Relationship with God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Genuine spirituality keeps us in balance with God, our neighbor, and the material world. Michael Keiser walks us through the Orthodox Church’s timeless teachings and practices on the ancient understanding of Christian spirituality with humor and keen insight. He outlines how ascetic practices, personal and corporate worship, confession and repentance, overcoming the passions, and opening...

For Orthodox Christians, this is all just a bit much. At the risk of being accused of being tolerance-challenged, I admit I tend to gag at the misuse of a perfectly sound word like “spirituality.” This word properly refers to the devotional practices that help us put the teachings of Jesus Christ into day-to-day use as we seek to learn God’s will and then do it. You see, spirituality has a very practical purpose that has nothing to do with releasing our inner mystic;
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