Christ is Ascended!
There was an article recently in the Wall Street Journal talking about the noticeable increase in the amount of Americans converting to Orthodoxy. And one of the…
Christ is risen! (On this Leave-Taking of the Feast of Pascha!)
One of my very first jobs was at the fast-food restaurant Burger King! Man, that was a hoot. I loved…
Christ is risen!
In the heady days of the Enlightenment in Europe, the elites and the educated were convinced humanity had turned a corner away from the silly superstitions of…
Sad woman swinging on a surreal swing.
Christ is risen!
The old apocryphal Chinese curse seems innocuous at first, but when you really think about it, it is truly a curse:…
Christ is risen!
It's so easy to be "one-sided!" You know what I mean - "That idea is so wrong and everyone who thinks that way and acts that way is…
Christ is risen!
It seems we are a society of fads. To say that our modern culture is captured by the immediate and temporary seems to be a bit of…
On this Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, we are confronted with the message that we must never neglect the marginalized in society AND the confrontation that all of us must…
Christ is risen!
I have some acquaintances that are academic lay theologians and they never cease to amaze me with their regular "insights" that "Well, we know this has been…
Christ is risen!
Let's face it, ideas matter. Words matter. The current fad of "lived experience" as a way to insist that truth is relative is a linguistic trap filled…
Christ is risen!
American author and humorist Patsy Clairmont famously said "Normal is just a setting on your dryer." She was hoping to communicate that many times our idea of…