Professor Terry Mattingly, aka tmatt of GR, recently delivered a presentation … So What Do Converts Want, Anyway? I found it insightful — Listen for yourself! It’s well worth 30 minutes — perhaps even a repeat! Source Read more

Family … I have an announcement to make. Beginning January 1st I am no longer going to be so critical,” I half-seriously boasted. “That’s right, from now on I will think before I speak and refrain from criticism.” My wife basically paid me no mind. Honestly, I’d given the resolution no thought and was merely blathering just to hear myself talk. As I soon learned, and you shall see, my oldest daughter, a pre-teen, drank up every lost drop of... Read more

First, the Lord Jesus is Bread without price offered freely, the Bread that truly does satisfy, for He is “the Bread of life [and] he who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.” (Jn. 6:35). SourceThe Son of God Himself entered the flow of history “when the fullness of the time had come” (vs. 4), where He remains to this day – God’s amazing and singular gift to mankind. We have reasons... Read more

This is not an endorsement; I just bumped into this while poking around. Curious. Read more

JANUARY What would Beezlebub blog? Who would Jesus bomb? Oh, it’s probably just the End Of Time. FEBRUARY Though I no longer eat mayonnaise, and can’t remember the last time I had steak, here’s: My One, My Only … MEME. Oh well, true to form, some of the links are now missing in the post about My Uncle Monkey. Ain’t no such thing as a Bishop Gene. More Uncle Monkey. MARCH In memory of Darwin Kirby. Before the Pope made... Read more

Remember when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the United Nations and announced the coming of the Antichrist? It was around the same time that Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez called President George Bush the devil; so, the story might have gotten lost in the, uh, details. EDITOR’S NOTE: I realize I have entered the Nut Zone. That is, any time you bring up something like the Boogeyman (Antichrist, Hitler, for some – even W) you lose credibility. But, if you’re still... Read more

The Fourteen Thousand Holy Children of Bethlehem When the Magi from the east did not return to Jerusalem from Bethlehem to inform Herod about the newborn King but rather, at the angel’s command, returned to their homeland another way, Herod became as enraged as a wild beast and ordered all the children two years old and under in Bethlehem and its surroundings to be killed. This frightening command of the king was carried out to the letter. His soldiers beheaded... Read more

Moscow, December 28, Interfax – The first common divine service of the Primates of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Church Abroad will be celebrated untraditionally: the Royal Gates in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour will be open throughout the service, that being done only during the Bright Week, the first week after Easter. The service was announced in the joint release of the secretaries of the commissions of the two Churches, archpriests Nikolay Balashov and Alexander Lebedev. The... Read more

You, too, come to Christ … Don’t think of the long journeys … One reaches him, the omnipresent one, through love, not by seafaring. Yet, since the floods and storms of manifold temptations are common enough on this voyage, too, believe in the crucified one so that your faith is capable of climbing onto the wood. Then you will not sink … — St Augustine Read more

Regarding this posting (a conference for Anglicans interested in Orthodoxy), here’s the scoop … DETROIT – In response to numerous enquiries, St. Andrew House Center for Orthodox Christian Studies will host “Faith of Our Fathers: A Colloquium on Orthodoxy for Anglicans” Jan. 29-30 for clergy of the Episcopal Church in the United States, the Anglican Church of Canada, and other churches in the worldwide Anglican Communion. While the colloquium is designed for Anglican clergy, it is also open to Anglican... Read more