… for whatever reason, the other day. Teenaged daughter wouldn’t believe us … That this was actually a song, on the radio!, … back in the day. Please. (Forgive me, but …) You gotta. Watch: Read more

Everyone from Nero to Kissinger to Osama to GaGa has been believed to be the Antichrist. The weekly Bible study group at St Joseph Church is about to learn from— er, I mean, of — another one. The Orthodixie Podcast on Ancient Faith Radio. Image Source Read more

Forgive me. But I really have nothing to say about Taught by God except — THANKS. Excellent. Good work! I can’t say enough good things about your writing & this work. — That was my note to author Dan Fanous last year after reading the manuscript for Taught by God. This, from the publisher’s site: Few would dispute that the sayings of Jesus were and are important. But though important, these very same sayings are difficult at best and incomprehensible... Read more

It is a pious custom to keep some holy bread and holy water in one’s icon corner — to consume, breaking the night’s fast, with one’s morning prayers. O Lord my God, may Thy holy gift and Thy Holy Water be unto forgiveness of my sins, unto enlightenment of my mind, unto strengthening of my spiritual and bodily powers, unto health of my soul and body, unto vanquishing of my passions and weaknesses, by Thy boundless merciful kindness, through the... Read more

“If one wants more than secular reason can disclose – and one should want more – then one should join a religion and be careful to choose the right one … I indeed affirm the canonical, concrete moral narrative, but realize it cannot be given by reason, only by grace. I am, after all, a born-again Texan Orthodox Catholic, a convert by choice and conviction, through grace and repentance for sins innumerable (including a first edition upon which much improvement... Read more

Thanks to Fr Seraphim Holland and Matushka Elizabeth Perdomo. Read more

Health Care in a Secular Culture:The Conscience of Physicians & Nurses at Risk Friday, April 29h and Saturday, April 30th: ORTHODOX: Dr H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr PROTESTANT: Dr C. Ben Mitchell ROMAN CATHOLIC: Dr Grattan T. Brown Co-sponsored by Houston Baptist University, Pope John Paul II Forum, University of St. Thomas, Orthodox Clergy Association of Southeast Texas, and Touchstone Magazine. Also, invited to Friday evening’s banquet: ROMAN CATHOLIC: Daniel Cardinal DiNardo PROTESTANT: Dr. Robert B. Sloan, Jr. ORTHODOX: Bishop Thomas... Read more

A nice job by CBS; a beautiful presentation of Orthodox monasticism. If you missed 60 Minutes’ Mount Athos Story: Click HERE. Worth your while. And broadcast on Pascha! What is the “world” coming to? Christ is Risen! Image Source Read more

Christ is Risen! Read more

From clerical collar-wearing altar boys to (apparently) Alice Cooper and KISS attending the Paschal Matins — Oh, and you’ve never heard the Good News till you’ve heard it read in German, with a Japanese twist and a Southern accent. (In this “blast from the past,” Fr. Joseph even describes how to get one’s choir-directing wife to “do her job” only 48 hours after giving birth!) Back in North Carolina, our Mission would process around the church three times singing “Thy... Read more