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Isaac Newton once said, "Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." How I resonate with that. Simplicity is…
It's one of (if not the) fastest growing forms of Christianity in the world, and it's the movement I came from when I converted to Orthodoxy so many years ago.…
"Oh, come on. You know good and well I didn't mean that the way you are taking it!" Frankly, I couldn't get over that this person so misunderstood me. It…
Ask any police officer or investigator and they will tell you having an eyewitness to an event is great, and not so great. The reason is eyewitnesses are notorious for…
Alexander Solzhenitsyn once said, “We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.” I wish I had learned this earlier in my life. I would have avoided some painful…
If you had to choose between self-esteem and self-awareness what would you choose? By the way, it's a trick question!
I remember when there was this emphasis on self-esteem becoming so…
It was a bit of a significant moment between me and my daughter. We were at the Mall and went into a store for her to buy some of the…
I love this quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have…
The Christian Faith is meant to transform you into a "new creature." You are made to become like Christ. In fact, the purpose of the Orthodox Faith is to have…
Welcome to the second day of the Dormition Fast! The wisdom of the fasting disciplines of the Church is meant to reinforce the reality that unless the faith is holistically…