Teaching high school Sunday School last school year and now teaching junior high school this school year has been a challenge. In order to keep some interest in the younger tweens, I am in the process of telling them some of the “funnier” stories in the Old Testament. Well, that is, I am telling them […]
Archives for August 2015
Immigration and my personal story
Lately there has been much discussion of undocumented immigrants and anchor babies. But, in the midst of that discussion, the fate of legal immigrants is not being discussed. Why do I mention that? Well, because if the citizenship of natural-born citizens can be removed under some type of specious argument, then the citizenship of those […]
Democrat, Republican, Orthodox
I have not written for a while for various reasons. Most of them have to do with an incredibly heavy workload lately. But, I ran across the meme above, and found it quite worthwhile. The original version was on phatmass.com, this is a repost of a slightly altered version because the original version had a […]
Oikonomía, a better way to pastor
There was God’s Will to consider, and God was understood often to give people not what they wanted but what they needed. He dealt with people not according to fixed principles of justice but in ways that would best bring about each soul’s salvation. The Byzantine term for this was oikonomía, and it is still […]
