As Lotz stood up to speak, caught up in what was a deeply stirring meeting, she put away her notes and said to the crowd, “Today, I just want to talk with you about Jesus.” She did so, preaching for more than an hour. A friend who was there told me that about half way through her message, many of the Anglican priests were muttering under their breath about a Baptist evangelist preaching too long at an Anglican meeting. By... Read more

I never liked Johnny Cash. Absolutely no plans to see the movie.Am I an American? Never, not once, have I liked a U2 song.Am I a Christian?H/T THUNDERSTRUCK I’ve owned only 6 pair of blue jeans in my life.Am I weird? I’ve never put much stock in the words of the current Patriarch of Istanbul.Is he Orthodox?Just [kinda] kidding. Read more

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Two men were shipwrecked near an island. When they landed ashore, one of them began screaming and yelling, “We’re going to die! We’re going to die! There’s no food! No water! We’re going to die!” The second man leaned calmly against a palm tree. When the first man saw how calm his friend was, he went crazy and shouted, “Don’t you understand?! We’re going to die!!”Undisturbed, the second man replied, “You don’t understand, I make $100,000 a week.” Dumbfounded, the... Read more

He said in 1994 that when he became Supreme Governor of the Church of England, he would rather be “defender of faiths” than “defender of the faith”.“Right. Ok. So, all that time on Athos adds up to this? As we were blushing from all the attention he paid to our Holy Mountain, we should have read up on the Prince’s close friendship with (the once Orthodox) John Tavaner and the composer’s views on “the trancendental unity of all religions” (taken... Read more

In ‘Spain,’ we were told of long-term missionaries, and we were told we would be able to sample “an Arab Christian church.” I got all excited; I thought they meant an Arab Christian Church, not a Protestant church that happened to be in Arabic (and it was in Spanish, anyway!). The same vapid drivel that we coo at chapel was translated, and the folding chairs surrounding the guitarist with the Arabic Bibles casually placed under them reinforced the ‘cultural barrier’... Read more

Welcome readers of Southern Appeal! Items of interest, things Southern: Orthodoxy in Dixie, Accent on the South, TOP TEN: Southern Orthodox, Rocket Launcher, Cullyrock, and Cullyrock Responds. I’ve added Southern Appeal to my blogroll. I visit This Side of Glory every day. Yet it was only this morning that I realized I’d listed Grace’s site as The Side of Glory for over a year now! Sorry! I’ve also added Serge’s Conservative Blog for Peace. Though we may differ on politics... Read more

Yes. I am a missionary; this is mission work. It’s not the same as the great missionaries who went where there was no written language and tried to translate the Bible, living in a place for twenty years before they had one convert. I think of those people, and in comparison, what I’m doing is hard, but not as hard as other missionary endeavors around the world. Going to Wheaton College, where there’s a great emphasis on missions, I never... Read more

The title of the article: One Woman’s Choice:After a Prenatal Test Shows Down Syndrome, A Wrenching Decision “So when do you go for the abortion?” my friend asked, her voice sympathetic. “Wednesday,” I replied, and then hurriedly got off the phone. I called Mike, my boyfriend, in tears, complaining about how inconsiderate people are, how no one thinks before they speak. The truth was, until I heard the word “abortion,” it hadn’t occurred to me that I was actually having... Read more

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