Devotional: The Bible is Not a Sex Manual

When the disciples jockeyed for thrones, Jesus knelt with a towel. That single image from Mark 10 reshapes everything — including how we open this Book. Scripture was never handed to us as a checklist of prohibitions to weaponize against the wounded. The Orthodox tradition calls us to theosis, the slow, holy work of becoming more like God, and God, as Jesus reminds us, "came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."…