Just yesterday I received the following e-mail from a person who has posted on this blog: . . . I have been reading & enjoying your blog & have recently commented on the Anabaptist church. I have noticed that you have written often about the Immigration laws that are being introduced in Arizona. My church […]
Lies, d*** lies, and statistics
We have all heard the saying about there being, “lies, damn lies, and statistics.” From where does the saying come? No one knows for sure, though it comes from the 19th century. The word statistics did not exist in English until 1787, so the saying cannot come from prior to that. A mathematician from the […]
Thanks Chief Justice Roberts, it needed to be said
Yesterday, Chief Justice Roberts of the United States Supreme Court issued his end-of-year report, in it he said some rather strong things to Congress. Fox News quotes his report: Citing the economic downturn as one of two “immediate obstacles” to improving the performance of the federal judiciary, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts […]
Penelope Cruz, Fox News, and the anything but fair and balanced approach
Very recently, Penélope Cruz, the Spanish actress who has acted in quite a few films and has currently finished being one of the stars on the yet to be released Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, announced that she and her husband are expecting a child, and that they plan on having it here […]
Saint Eulalia of Mérida and child martyrdom
Many Western saints are not known to Eastern Christians, just like many Eastern saints are not known to Western Christians. I am talking about the saints that both the East and the West have in common because they come from the time of an united Christendom. Yesterday I mentioned that for various historical reasons, some […]
The Holy Innocents killed by Herod (2010)
One of the oddities of the Church calendar is that there are certain feasts that are celebrated on one day in the East, but another day in the West. This is the case of the Feast of the Holy Innocents. The West celebrated that feast yesterday, but the East celebrates it today. Here is what […]
Pithless Thoughts, $40.00, and moist eyes
Normally I do not port someone else’s blog post to my blog. But, I am porting this one because it is such a good example of how the Desert Fathers used to give. It comes from the blog of Pithless Thoughts, and I hope that he will not mind my porting it here. So, please […]
He came to us, God with us.
On this day the Virgin cometh to a cave to give birth to God the Word ineffable, Who was before all the ages. Dance for joy, O earth, on hearing the gladsome tidings; with the Angels and the shepherds now glorify Him Who is willing to be gazed on as a young Child Who before […]
Mystery is sometimes very mysterious
One of the standard Evangelical definitions of mystery takes all the mystery out of mystery. That particular definition claims that there is no mystery to mystery. In other words, the claim is that a New Testament mystery is only something that was mysterious in the Old Testament but that is no longer mysterious in the […]
A non-theological appreciation of free will and the sovereignty of God
A person commented the following on my post yesterday: You know, the more I read and learn concerning Orthodox theology, the more I see an acceptance of paradox that even exceeds my native Lutheranism. My reply is that it has more to do with the idea of mystery, but rather than try to explain it […]
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