Yesterday I posted on how we should be cautious as to how we preach about arriving on time. I pointed out that the concept of "being on time" is somewhat cultural. In Anglo-Saxon and Germanic cultures, being on time means that one arrives no later … [Continue reading]
Being on time
I found this cartoon from England to be quite funny. There is a perpetual joke in both Greek and Antiochian circles about Greek time or Arab time. I have not heard quite as much of it among the OCA folk, but it is there as well. Before anyone … [Continue reading]
Loaves, fishes, and artoclasia
The homily below was given on 7 August 2011 by Fr. Demetri Tsigas of Saint Katherine Greek Orthodox Church in Melbourne, FL. He e-mailed it out to various people and I am including it here because it is such an excellent sermon and a good explanation … [Continue reading]
Synaxarion of the Transfiguration
Tomorrow, really beginning tonight at Vespers, is the Feast of the Transfiguration, one of the 12 Great Feasts of the Church. Below is the reading for the day from the online Chapel of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Our Lord had … [Continue reading]
Harry Potter philosophical camps
I read an interesting article by Terry Mattingly, the Orthodox journalist and religion writer. In it he summarizes the various camps that have developed around the Harry Potter books, or perhaps I should say the corpus. As you know, the release of … [Continue reading]
Fr. Paul and an eerie coincidence
Those of you who have been reading this blog for a couple of years will remember that I posted on the sickness and then the death of The Rt. Rev. Fr. Paul W. Moses, an Archimandrite of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. He was a WWII veteran who had … [Continue reading]
The Woman caught in adultery and us
I am an Adjunct Professor in a course called Religions of the World at a state university. It is a freshman level course and is usually taken by people who simply want to learn about other religions. Frankly, some students take it looking for an … [Continue reading]
Priests, pastors, and “politics”
Priests and pastors are often told that they should not become involved in politics. This is for a couple of reasons. One of them certainly is that one needs to be able to pastor to the whole congregation. If one frequently expresses political views, … [Continue reading]
Bycicles, old memories, and new experiences
Recently I decided that I needed to lose weight. Well, several million Americans and I decided that, since that happens on any given week. However, I had become increasingly concerned both about my health and about my Orthodox witness. It is somewhat … [Continue reading]
If you are here legally, you have rights
From Fox News: A judge this week ruled this week that Texas can no longer deny driver's licenses to legal immigrants with temporary visas and must issue standard licenses instead of non-standard ones approved by a state panel three years ago. … [Continue reading]
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