Robert Louis Stevenson once said "Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
And this is precisely why it is always so corrosive to a person, to a community, and to a society, to blindly chart a course of actions that ignore the consequences of our choices. Truth be told, the ignoring of…
Fr. Barnabas Powell
"Vain repetition, that's all it is!" My friend was absolutely horrified by my shift from my Pentecostal roots to the Greek Orthodox Church. He came to a service where I was presiding as priest and he simply shook his head in disbelief. "How could you do this?" he wondered to me afterwards. All the ritual…
As we enter this life-giving season of Great Lent, let us forgive everyone who has ever wronged us and ask forgiveness of everyone we have ever wronged.
"Do I have to?" Ah, that wonderful, childish question. "Do I have to?" I remember asking that question as a boy, and hearing the frustrating answer from my mother "No, honey, you don't have to; you get to!"
Why is it we humans seem to struggle against the disciplined life that can make our lives more…
Dear Ones, if you are in the Southern California area, please consider this your invitation to attend this event at Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral.
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Did you know that 70% of "millenials" support XXXXX! I leave out the subject because it doesn't matter. Our society continues to struggle with the unique problems of our affluence.
It is only the societies so freed from the immediate struggle to survive that deal with issues ranging from rights of convenience to issues of morality…
The season of Great Lent is almost here and this is a daily resource you should make a part of your spiritual toolbox to help you keep a focused and spiritually profitable season of preparation for the celebration of Pascha. Visit this site as often as you can!
http://lent.goarch.org/
"It's in your tone." My tone, what does that mean? We were discussing some heavy issue and the conversation had, indeed, turned toward the heart of the matter. I guess my voice and facial expression began to match the seriousness of my words, and she noticed it right away. That's when the "tone" comment surfaced.…
Dogged determination is said to be indispensable for true success. Author Simon Sinek says "One of the best paradoxes of leadership is that a leader needs to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the…
OK, it's really not a secret, but hopefully the provocative headline grabbed your attention!
But, our busy lives really do challenge us in keeping our priorities in the right order, don't they? We moderns are a complicated mishmash of schedules, opportunities, affluence, and "freedom." And that multiplication of events, desires, hopes, and advertisements don't seem to…