Category: Morning Walk

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Morning Walk Update (6/10/2022)

Hello, our dear readers! We hope you are all doing well in living out the Gospel in your daily life. Things at Morning Walk have been getting busier as our various members grow older and pivotal life events approach! This summer, between weddings and other programs, we are cutting back our post frequency from weekly to biweekly. We will still host our Morning Walk Fellowship (for the third summer in a row!) and a large Morning Walk summertime meet-up. We also look towards another trip to the March for Life in 2023—hopefully one celebrating a decision against Roe v. Wade! … Continue reading “Morning Walk Update (6/10/2022)” →

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Thanksgiving from Morning Walk

We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We at Morning Walk are grateful to you, our readers, for being such a motivation behind our articles. When there are moments of doubt where we wonder whether we should keep writing, it is always the consistent and steady readership that pushes us to continue. We continue to write because we see the interaction between all members and associates of Morning Walk that comes from it. Writing also helps us think through our own beliefs more clearly; as always, if you disagree with anything here, feel free to share. We are committed to … Continue reading “Thanksgiving from Morning Walk” →

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Morning Walk Convention 2021

Morning Walk is excited to host our first convention this July from the 16th to 18th in the Chicago area. We are still in the planning phase and looking to have a new style of debate we wanted to trial at the convention. While the topic is not nailed down yet, we are looking to have a discussion on Genesis 1 & 2 (the Creation narrative) and how we should read it in light of the high level of acceptance of evolution amongst American Christians. We will be sending out a schedule shortly. RSVP with this link for the convention … Continue reading “Morning Walk Convention 2021” →

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Morning Walk Conference: Pictures

Came one, came all! We are thanking God for allowing us to get together this weekend to learn, fellowship, and challenge ourselves. Many thanks also to the conference attendees—in person and online—for making this conference a smashing success! You all were so helpful, enthusiastic, flexible, charitable, and, most of all, engaged. If you attended in any capacity, please fill out this post-conference survey. Here are some of our favorite photos from the conference:

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Morning Walk Conference: Join Our Livestream!

Greetings! The Morning Walk Conference has been in the works for a year, and it will start tomorrow afternoon! For those unable to attend, we will stream our conference on YouTube. On both Saturday and Sunday, feel free to join in the livestream chat and type in your questions for the keynote speakers. All times are Central Standard Time. August 22nd Keynote Speeches on Prayer: https://youtu.be/VbEvxWKSRh4 August 23rd Q&A with Keynote Speakers: https://youtu.be/j96o2_sD1q8 God Bless, Morning Walk

by Daniel Sutkowski

Augustine’s Answer to the Problem of Evil

The problem of evil, known as theodicy, has led many to doubt God’s goodness and existence. Theodicy has come up again and again throughout history, and most major theologians will deal with it at one time or another. While there are many ways thinkers have gone about answering the question, few do it as well as Augustine. Augustine lived a life afflicted by this question. He spent years not fully embracing Christ because of his doubts. While Aquinas provides a useful, and in my opinion correct, analysis of the problem, Augustine lived it. Augustine speaks of how his conscience chides … Continue reading “Augustine’s Answer to the Problem of Evil” →

by Daniel Sutkowski

A Manual for Catholics on How to Dialogue with Orthodox Christians

Orthodox convo

I thought I would write a fun article that, while it contains some pearls of truth, is largely meant to tease Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians. Enjoy! Many a Catholic has gone through their entire lives without knowing what the Orthodox Christian is. For some, the word “Orthodox” often should be followed with the category of “Jew!” For other Catholics, Orthodox Christians are that weird combination of far east mysticism and Christianity, complete with bearded priests in smoke filled rooms (straight from Woodstock I suspect). For still other Catholics, Orthodox Christians were just fun people to go on Crusades with … Continue reading “A Manual for Catholics on How to Dialogue with Orthodox Christians” →

by Daniel Sutkowski

What Real Ecumenism Looks Like

For the past few years, Zach and I have had a running debate with Vlad about whether the term “Ecumenical” aptly describes Morning Walk. Zach and I advocate for its inclusion into our Mission Statement. Vlad, in all his belligerent Russian Orthodox fashion, thinks the word speaks too much like a festering of High Church Anglicans getting together with Vatican higher-ups to dither about much of nothing and sign something that has little real world implications. Such “Ecumenism” does not reflect the spirit of true Christian ecumenical conversation, and Vlad is right to be concerned with the usage of a … Continue reading “What Real Ecumenism Looks Like” →

by Vlad Smetanko

Possible Directions for This Blog

This blog is just about a year old, and it is a good time to take a breath and examine the direction in which we have gone and the possible places to go from this point on. There has never been a precise idea of what the content of this blog ought to be like, and perhaps that is a good thing. Yet there has been a general understanding that we produce intellectual posts that relate at least somewhat to Christian theology or religion in general. Let us divide such content into three groups: (i) confirming or illustrating a point … Continue reading “Possible Directions for This Blog” →