A Matter of Faith, By Dale Hurd, CBN News Sr. Reporter, October 12, 2004 CBN.com – BORGHOLM, SWEDEN – Inside a small Pentecostal church in southern Sweden, worshippers pray for their pastor, that somehow he won’t have to go to prison for the crime of preaching against homosexuality. Sweden was at the forefront of the sexual revolution, and today is at the forefront of the gay agenda. As in many European nations, homosexuality has been embraced by society as a... Read more

For the record: I’m voting for Bush and have never in my adult life been labeled a liberal by anyone worthy of trust. I’m anti & pro all the right causes, at least in the social and cultural spheres. Personally, voting for John Kerry has not once crossed my mind. There’s much about the whole business that I find repulsive and I look forward to the day when saying, “Oh, that’s just politics,” will hold no water among a discerning... Read more

When Christ asks if we loved our neighbors, how many of us modern choosers will be hoping he means those far away, people whom we chose to help, rather than those strange and terrible beings who just happened to live on our block? — Anthony Esolen in Touchstone Read more

The Ecumenical Patriarchate was bombed on Thursday … The Antiochian Archdiocese’s Website has ideas for Church School … Sigh. Episcopalians. Secession. Really. (The Grey Book) Can you hear me? Wait. Can you hear me now? Read more

The destiny of America lies around the hearthstone … If thrift and industry are taught there… if the example of self sacrifice oft appears; if honor abide there, and high ideals; if there the building of fortune be subordinate to the building of character—America will live in security, rejoicing in an abundant prosperity and good government at home, and peace, respect and confidence abroad…Look well, then, to the hearthstone; herein all hope for America lies. But the hearthstone is an... Read more

Dear Father Huneycutt, I have read many of your articles on the Antiochian Archdiocese’s website, and I was particularly moved by your essay about Orthodoxy in the South. I was raised in New Mexico, and I’m currently a freshman at Fordham University in New York City. I was raised a Methodist; I began questioning my Methodist beliefs early into high school, and I started studying the Church Fathers and Church History. Originally, I settled on the Catholic church, in part... Read more

Erica, of a Catechumen’s Walk, had asked: “Why do we hold this particular set of beliefs, and not that one?” This is an excellent question which deserves an answer. In partial fulfillment, here is Elder Cleopa of Romania: The Church of Christ determined the truths of the faith, according to the long course of Tradition, through the teachings and canons of the holy Oecumenical Councils, decrees and the Symbol of Faith [The Creed], and with confessions [of Faith] by holy... Read more

As a follow-up to last week’s posting on Orthodox Psychotherapy … Psychology is very definitely not a theology; it is a natural science that seeks to describe experienceable psychic phenomena … But as empirical science it has neither the capacity nor the competence to decide the questions of truth and value, this being the perogative of theology. Carl Jung in Mysterium Coniunctionis [I]t is clear that Christianity is principally a science which cures, that is to say, a psycho-therapeutic method... Read more

This is something to think about when negative people are doing their best to rain on your parade. So remember this story the next time someone who knows nothing and cares less makes your life miserable – – A woman was at her hairdresser’s getting her hair styled for a trip to Rome with her boyfriend. She mentioned the trip to the hairdresser, who responded, “Rome? Why would anyone want to go there? It’s crowded and dirty and full of... Read more

Having a 2.5 year old named Helen, I’ve got my eye on: Static Cam of Mount St Helens, updated every 5 minutes or so. The ever-vigilant Dawn Patrol on Planned Parenthood’s training Teens to bash Bush … And did you know that Adoption and Chidlbirth are as traumatic as Abortion? Every now and then, to escape the squabblings of American Orthodoxy, it’s nice to “visit” a far-away place … The Novo-Tikhvin Women’s Monastery, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Three Possible Futures of Anglicanism... Read more