PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

Faith does not ask us to believe in fantasies. It asks us to remain when certainty has disappeared. “Let us also go, that we may die with Him.” — John 11:16 Thomas has been remembered as the doubter. Perhaps we have remembered him wrongly. Long before he placed his hand near the wounds of the risen Christ, Thomas had already revealed something essential about his heart. When Jesus turned toward Judea again, the disciples understood the danger. They reminded Him that the autho