Members of Russian NationalOlympic team pose for a picturewith Russian Orthodox ChurchPatriarch Kirill, center, at Christthe Savior Cathedral after ablessing ceremony in Moscow,Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. Stolen from here. Read more

An industrious blog reader sent the following regarding a portion of this post which referenced this link: Hi, Fr. Huneycutt— I enjoy your blog and wanted to respond to one of the posts, but, alas, didn’t have an “account” and not sure how to do that. Anyway, re. the Patriarch Kyrill comments about Haiti. I looked at the speech and didn’t see how the news accounts could twist his words that way. Even with my poor Google translation, it doesn’t... Read more

The good folks at Ancient Faith Radio note: “Our budgeted donation goal is $11,000 for January. If you are able to help us during this last week DAY of the month, we would be very grateful. Thank you.” At the time of this posting they still lacked $961. Thanks for your support! PS – This being the 30th post of the 30th day, I shall now enjoy a relief of pressure; sporadic postings promised TFN! 🙂 Read more

Recently, I had the privilege of speaking in Dallas, Texas – at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. This was a pre-Lenten retreat sponsored by the NTOM, the North Texas Orthodox Mission. They’re good folks, doing great work — a pan-Orthodox LAY organization; look ‘em up on the web … NTOM.ORG Between house blessings and an upcoming clergy retreat, I hope you’ll forgive me if we just take a listen to the words of a fool recently recorded in the Big... Read more

State of the Groundhog … by Lars Walker It probably won’t surprise you much when I inform you that I passed up the opportunity to listen to my president’s State of the Union address last night. Instead I popped my DVD of Groundhog Day into the player, and watched it for the eleventy-second time. It was almost shorter than the president’s speech, and definitely less repetitious, from what I’ve read. And it’s the right time of year. I think Groundhog... Read more

From the seminary website: This year’s annual public Lenten retreat at St Vladimir’s Seminary will be “Southern Style” as we welcome Fr Joseph Huneycutt, author of the popular blog Orthodixie. Fr Joseph’s topic for this year’s retreat, to be held Saturday, March 20, 2010, is Paschal Fire from Spiritual Ashes. Known for combining wit with wisdom, and satire with sobriety, Fr Joseph has authored several books reflecting his journey to and through the Orthodox Christian faith, including: We Came, We... Read more

“As every young Texian* Christian of school age knows, Austin shall surely be the fourth Rome, and if not Austin, then Dallas or perhaps Abilene … the patriarch of the Texans will then bear the weight of that priority among the Church, that future diocese of Sante Fe. As the capital of the Empire of Holy Texas, it will preside as first in loving care for all true believing and worshipping churches … Once all is put in order, the... Read more

Fr. bless, Well, I finally finished the book. Thank you for this gift. Now for my end of the bargain… I was most disappointed with it. I have listened to most all of your podcasts on AFR. I can’t even in my head reproduce the sound of your voice in these stories. I certainly can’t sing any of the songs. Here I was sitting and reading the stories I have played over on AFR knowing how they read and trying... Read more

“A New York City woman on trial for starving four of her children was brought up in a ‘cult-like’ religion that prohibited its members from direct contact with the outside world, her brother testified yesterday. ‘It was an almost cult-like existence. We weren’t allowed to watch TV, go to the movies, or vote,’ said Frederick Phillips, 45, of Manhattan, describing the lifestyles of members of the Brooklyn-based Church of the Brethren, an Orthodox Christian church that believed in a strict... Read more

Just in case you missed this episode last month, but mainly because I got home late, having promised 30 posts in 30 days, here’s a repeat (otherwise known as a “favre”) … Back in the 7th grade I played on my first school football team. I knew absolutely nothing about the game, but being a “big ol’ boy” (as they say in the South) I think my parents didn’t want me getting much bigger. They believed football would get me... Read more