Houston … we have a program: Orthodox Radio’s a Comin’.The deal hasn’t been inked yet; details forthcoming. Have you heard of the Trojan Horse of Islam? A Bishop Speaks on Abortion & Amos. This sounds way cool: Orthodox Writers’ Week. Mollie writes of an Alanis Morissette-level misappropriation of the word ironic … Turkey’s Not Done Yet. Thanks God? Isn’t it ironic (as Alanis Morissette might say) — Lutherans become Orthodox. Read more

I couldn’t help but notice a striking difference between the following two quotes; the first comes from today’s issue of DYNAMIS, the second from a retired bishopess of the Episcopal Church. Wisdom’s Discernment: “…she goes about seeking those worthy of her, and she graciously appears to them in their paths, and meets them in every thought” (Wisdom 6:16). In Proverbs 3:13-16, Wisdom is revealed as a treasure unequaled to anything one might desire. Still, as St. Maximos the Confessor observes,... Read more

There’s an old story about the Duke University basketball team that involves the school’s mascot, the Blue Devil. It seems that it was one of those rare occasions when the team had lost on the road. They were headed back home on the bus through rural North Carolina when the bus encountered mechanical problems. Eventually, the bus died. The team was tired, defeated and grumpy. Besides, most of them were asleep when the bus had to pull onto the shoulder... Read more

A while back, through the Antiochian webpage, I received an email from an Episcopal priest interested in Orthodoxy. I wrote a response and tried, using everything but snail-mail and alchemy, to send reply through the addy listed and variations thereof … to no avail. I realize there are those who might see this as a sign that God wills the man to stay put. (Stranger things have happened.) But, if by chance the good Rev’d happens by this blog, please... Read more

Martin Luther King Day has come and gone, and so has the young black man, about whom the right dare not say a thing, and the left will not say a thing, lest they each admit that they have failed him. Not always by racism; more often now by our adherence to a sexual antinomianism and an androgyny (weirdly compatible with the cartoonish machismo of the cities, a phony manhood that is either chaotic and destructive or childish and useless)... Read more

I WISH TO EXPRESS MY OPINION in more detail, especially now that my death is approaching, so as to be consistent with myself from beginning to end, and lest anyone should think that I have said one thing and concealed another in my thoughts, foe which it would be just to shame me in this hour of my death. Concerning the Patriarch I shall say this, lest it should perhaps occur to him to show me a certain respect at... Read more

Yesterday, I was a “guest” on The Danny Fontana Show which originates in Charlotte, North Carolina. Plugging One Flew Over the Onion Dome has granted me several interviews with radios and newspapers; though, granted, I’d never heard of The Danny Fontana Show and, most likely, won’t again. Though when he quickly ended the interview, just before a break, he thanked me and said we’d do it again sometime. Danny, playing to his audience, wanted to know … How “Orthodox” differs... Read more

Any circumstance in which a man finds himself unwillingly is a prison for him. So be content with whatever circumstances you may now be in, lest by being ungrateful you punish yourself unwittingly. — St Anthony the Great Stolen from The Daily Lives, Miracles and Wisdom of the Saints and Fasting Calendar – 2007 (January 17th). If you google temptation st anthony, you’ll find lots of things (viewer beware). Like this. And the famous one from Dali. There’s this one... Read more

Fr Michael Dahulich, Dean of St Tikhon’s Seminary, preached at St George on Sunday. Though the sermon was a good exhortation — encouraging us toward repentance — I believe many in attendance may only have heard the first few sentences. Why’s that? Because somewhere in there he mentioned the “L” Word. After which their mind went into OMG-M (Oh-my-gosh mode). LENT is coming. That’s right … Next is Zacchaeus Sunday(I believe the garbled word is, ironically, “focus.”) Followed by the... Read more

“I’m under no illusion that America is going to embrace Orthodoxy within a generation,” Huneycutt says. “Kissing relics, kissing bones of dead people. Baptists don’t normally do that.” SourceThat’s one of my favorite (forgive me) personal quotes in this story. Until the non-Orthodox father of a blog reader sent notification to his son — who FWD’ed me — I didn’t know the article had run in Thursday’s USA Today. For whatever reason, USA Today cut out that quote. Okay you... Read more