Sung to the tune of “The Church’s [sic] One [sic] Foundation [sic]”Our community’s stated purposeIs gracious mass-appeal,It’s in our Mission StatementReflecting how we feel:No “lifestyle choice” appalls us,C’mon you’re welcome here!Throw out that moral compass,There’s no one here to steer. What’s this all about? Go HERE! Read more

This sermon was originally preached on Sunday, August 4, 1996. Gospel Text“Then he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but the boat by this time was many furlongs distant from the land, beaten by the waves; for the wind was against them.... Read more

Ancient Faith Radio is in Montreal this week covering the 48th biannual Antiochian Archdiocesan Convention. Here’s the host parish site. Also, the Antiochian webpage is undergoing a make-over. Read more

In other news, I read Fr Joseph Huneycutt’s One Flew Over the Onion Dome this week. I’m planning on doing a “Book Review” for my Religion in America class. Very funny stuff. Unfortunately for us, it is very true to life. There are some particularly funny stories in it which had me laughing outloud. Anyways, anyone who is Orthodox, converted to Orthodoxy or thinking about converting to Orthodoxy should read this. It hints at a beneficial moderate path in the... Read more

This, from Matushka Anne Mancuso … Well, tonight is the night. The final HP book comes out. Rose is at Nell’s house drinking butterbeer and making predictions about the next book. I am so grateful that I was influenced to read these books by someone whose taste I trust. I am grateful that I didn’t dismiss them because I sometimes like listening to Christian radio. I think now that there has been so much talk among the Christian talkers about... Read more

These days, having achieved middle age, I’ve resorted to telling tales to my kids that all boil down to: One Way, Up Hill, In the Snow, Barefooted. Yep, that’s the way it was … back in the day. Recently, back in my hometown waiting on my wife to return to the car, my teenaged daughter spotted some older teens just hanging out in the Walmart parking lot on a weekday summer’s night – as if they had nothing better to... Read more

Thanks to FWD from Tim Gibson. Read more

We have met Big Brother and he is us. Read more

Today, the 18th of July, is believed to be the anniversary of the fire that burned Rome in 64 AD, while the emperor Nero supposedly played his fiddle. In fact, he wasn’t in Rome. He was away at his holiday villa on the coast, and when he heard about the fire, he rushed back to the capital and took charge of the operations. The rumors about his playing his fiddle probably came from people in the Roman military who did... Read more

Hey Great Pearl whatchya doin’ out therePrayin’ alone with such might while I pray here above you[Protestant] I can hear your music playin’[Orthodox] I can see your censers swayin’Although you’re below me you don’t even know meI love you RefrainOh, my darling, knock three times on the ceiling if you want meTwice — I’m the Pope — if the answer is no, oh, my sweetness(Knock, knock, knock!) Means you’ll meet me, oh say, halfwayMmm — yes, I’m the Pope —... Read more