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BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (172): Why does freedom need the law?

April 14, 2022April 14, 2022 adminFaith & Life

Very often we rely more on maps or signposts than on our own sense of direction, of whose unworthiness we have plenty of experience. When we follow the signposts we don’t have any sense of being imposed upon; rather do we welcome them as a great help, a fresh piece of information which we immediately proceed to make our own.

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BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (171): What factors can diminish freedom or enhance it?

April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 adminFaith & Life

It would seem that grace diminishes freedom because it comes from the outside. But St Paul, in his Second Letter to the Corinthians (3:17), tells us: “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”

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BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (169): Does commitment take away freedom?

March 24, 2022March 24, 2022 adminFaith & Life

Life is a journey and in any journey, one encounters crossroads where choices have to be made. Once we stop making choices, we get stuck in one place. We stagnate. Only when we decide can we move on.

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BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (168): So what do we understand by “freedom”?

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 adminFaith & Life

“We are in a sense our own parents, and we give birth to ourselves by our own free choice of what is good” (St Gregory of Nyssa, Sermon on Ecclesiastes).

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