PATNA, India (Reuters) – Villagers at a wedding in eastern India decided the groom had arrived too drunk to get married, and so the bride married the groom’s more sober brother instead, police said on Monday. The younger brother readily agreed to take the groom’s place beside the teenage bride at her family’s invitation, witnesses said. The story. Read more

It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned the Episcopal Church — and, in some ways, I regret this update. However, it is what it is. The following is a comment by Mark Krikorian found on National Review Online.The head of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, is complaining about Nigerian Anglican bishops coming to Virginia this weekend to formally install the head of the conservative breakaway denomination in this country. Here’s what she said: “Such action would violate the... Read more

NOTE: Someone informed me that they were having trouble loading my most recent Ancient Faith Radio Podcast into their iPod. I believe that issue has been resolved … Here ’tis. Otherwise, as you were. Read more

Today marks the half way point on our journey from Pascha to Pentecost. In the middle of the feast, O Saviour, fill my thirsting soul with the waters of godliness, as Thou didst cry unto all: If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink! O Christ God, Fountain of life, glory to Thee! (Troparion) Christ God, the Creator and Master of all, cried to all in the midst of the feast of the law: Come and drink... Read more

This ol’ 666 is at least number 491 ’round here. Look, he might be considered “God” by knuckleheads in other countries … but in the Hispanic haven of Houston, he’s just another Jesus. (Who can’t hold a candle to the other 490 or so.) Jesus Might Be Alive and Well in Houston. “The same spirit that was in Jesus of Nazareth, and the same spirit is in me. He came to me. He [integrated] with my person in 1973.” de... Read more

This, stolen with gratitude, from today’s edition of The Writer’s Almanac … It was on this day in 1611 that the first edition of the King James Bible was published in England. It is one of the greatest and most influential works in the English language, even though it was translated by a committee. It was produced during a particularly chaotic period for England. An epidemic of the black plague had struck London so severely that the year before work... Read more

A band member of a group in Indiana — The SmallTown Heroes — sent me an MP3 of a song called “Long Road to Heaven.” I was picking through some JPEGs while listening and this pic, a shot from a Presanctified Liturgy came up. It just seemed to match as The SmallTown Heroes sang: “It’s a long way to heaven, dear Lord … It’s a hard row to hoe … And I don’t know if I’ll make it, dear Lord... Read more

Ladies and Gentlemen … the itty bitty history of big ol’ Texas. Illegal immigration? It’s just the … devil? “In order for Satan to establish his ‘New World Order’ and destroy the freedom of all people as predicted in the scriptures, he must first destroy the U.S.,” Larsen’s resolution states. “[It is] insidious for its stealth and innocuousness.”Source And to think — I knew him when he was just an Episcopalian! Yet, now it seems, and I hate to repeat... Read more

Humbly all of us should make great efforts to attend Church every Sunday and to offer God loving prayer. When we attend Church we are able to witness Christ Our Lord and to be aware of the Mother of God … and her loving prayers. Everyone of us knows that the Church is a place for healing, as we encounter the Physician of our souls, Christ our true God, who is reaching out to help us, save us, and keeps... Read more

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