The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals. The sermon this morning: “Jesus Walks on the Water.” The sermon tonight: “Searching for Jesus.” Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 PM in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King. Ladies, don’t forget the rummage sale. It’s a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands. The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled... Read more

Moscow, May 13, Interfax – The new First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) doubted the relevancy of the World Council of Churches. “The Moscow Patriarchate participates in the World Council of Churches for the purposes of maintaining a dialogue among Christians, but we can see that there is hardly any union reached, and this organization has lost its importance,” said the First Hierarch Hilarion in his interview published by the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily on Tuesday.... Read more

HOLYHEAD, Wales — A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape … and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church, was given a suspended sentence Tuesday. Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones — aka Master Jonba Hehol — with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates’ Court. He also whacked Jones’ 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones — known as Master Mormi... Read more

There’s a little ice cream shop in Sam Houston’s “hometown” of Huntsville where we’d popped in before, on the tail end of a previous camping trip. There we sat again, but this time we noticed the sign. As you exit the goody shop, it hangs by a window: “Please hurry back.” Though, seeing as how we’d lived in the woods for a couple nights, anything could be anything. It suddenly read: “Plush hairy back.” At least that’s what the dad... Read more

There was only one bishop who voted for another candidate … Vladika Hilarion himself. May God grant him many years!Thanks to news from Fathers John Whiteford & Mark Mancuso.UPDATE: The official word, thanks to Fr Andrew Damick, is —On April 29 (May 12), 2008, on the feast day of the Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus, we, the undersigned bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, having gathered in the church of our Most-Holy Queen, the Mother of God and... Read more

We hear it from time to time: a silly thing, really. Truth be known, we’ve probably even said it.He’s in a better place … She’s in a better place …And, if you’ve said it before, forgive me, I’m not talking about you. Lord knows I’ve probably even said it. Sometimes when we try to comfort someone who has just lost a loved one, we say: He’s in a better place. or,She’s in a better place.I don’t think it’s just a... Read more

Okay, so this has nothing to do with Orthodoxy nor, truly, the season .. Also, having a ten year old boy watch the 26 episodes with you is better than the best laugh track. My son’s favorites were “Bunny vs the Elements” and “Bunny vs Doggy” and “Bunny vs Sauce Pan.” Forgive me (and/or enjoy)! Read more

Fr Moses Berry talks about the annual Ancient Christianity conference sponsored by The Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black. May 30 – June 1, in Ash Grove/Springfield, MO. Listen here. Read more

The EU leadership makes laudable efforts to help immigrants from Islamic countries to embrace European values and to fully integrate into European society. An environment of tolerance is being created, whereby every person, regardless of his or her beliefs, must feel at home. I believe, however, that secular ideologies should not be regarded as the main basis for creating a society of tolerance and mutual respect. A secular or atheist ideology cannot serve as a common denominator for all of... Read more

It was years ago – perhaps in another reality – but a man came up to me and asked: Do you have what it takes? I said, “What are you talking about?” What It Takes … he repeated. Then he showed me a book. I looked down and saw the title of the book, written large in Sharpie on Duct Tape over a floppy leather cover, it read: What It Takes. I reached out for What It Takes and he... Read more