Our modern age is suffering a crisis of meaning. This, of course, is a natural consequence of decades of the proactive dismantling of the timeless wisdom that had been shaping…
Orthodox Christianity is an eschatological religion! O, Mr. Fancypants with your big words! :-)
Ok, Orthodoxy is the Faith that keeps eternity in mind and the ultimate victory of Christ over…
I love this quote from C.S. Lewis: “There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their…
“There’s no time like the present.” This and many other “time” quotes really get to a pearl of central wisdom we humans have learned: Timing is everything.
I have a dear…
There's a strain of thought in modern society called "good trouble." It started gaining more widely known during the Civil Rights era of our societies move away from this notion…
Have you ever thought about all those people Jesus healed during His ministry here on earth? They were so happy, grateful, and changed. In some cases (the illness of leprosy)…
My folks at the parish make fun of me a bit when I talk about how much I love being a Southerner. I regale them with stories from my family…
I remember the look on his face when I told him that Orthodoxy is "maximalist, not minimalistic." And then I reminded him of years of government promotion of the "minimum…
"E Pluribus Unum" Out of the Many - One. This is the motto of the United States of America, a republic founded in 1776 after a war of Independence from…
I confess I'm a bit of a rebel at heart. Maybe it's my Southern American heritage, or maybe it goes further back in my lineage from my Welsh and Irish…