{"id":642,"date":"2009-02-08T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2009\/02\/the-great-awakening.html"},"modified":"2009-02-08T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T05:56:00","slug":"the-great-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2009\/02\/the-great-awakening.html","title":{"rendered":"The Great Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/_iTncioBQZNk\/SY7K7roKGwI\/AAAAAAAACh4\/1-_E8HwLbf8\/s1600-h\/EvesApple.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 282px;height: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/399\/blogger\/_iTncioBQZNk\/SY7K7roKGwI\/AAAAAAAACh4\/1-_E8HwLbf8\/s400\/EvesApple.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><span style=\"font-size:180%\"><span>S<\/span><\/span>ome say it all started when Bill Gates admitted that the term <span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: italic\">icons<\/span> \u2014 which are windows into heaven \u2014 and thus, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: italic\">Windows<\/span>, are really trademarked by the Orthodox Church; not to mention when Steve Jobs and others finally came clean about that Apple design going back thousands of years to the very Genesis of man.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, after those two saw the light the money really started rolling in!<\/p>\n<p>Now some of our churches have icon screens that offer flat panel LED displays of Saints \u2013 you can even change them from time to time with downloads <span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: italic\">and<\/span>, since they are lighted like a TV image, there\u2019s no need for all those candles.<\/p>\n<p>It also didn\u2019t hurt when Tom Hanks began <span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: italic\">promoting<\/span> his new found faith \u2026 the Steelers started wearing Three Bar Crosses on their helmets, and Taco Bell started boasting of its Wednesday, Friday, and Fasting menus.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was Jeremiah Riddle who owned an old bubble gum factory.  His was the bright idea to produce Saints cards, like they used to do the ol\u2019 baseball cards, and stick one in each pack of bubble gum.  Now that idea took off like hot cakes!<\/p>\n<p>Ever had Rose Water flavored gum?  Not bad!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of hot cakes \u2026<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:130%\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">The <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Orthodixie Podcast<\/span> on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ancientfaith.com\/podcasts\/orthodixie\/the_great_awakening1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ancient Faith Radio<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Or, just listen <a href=\"http:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/orthodixie\/odx_2009-02-07_pc.mp3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-size:85%\">Orthodoxy is often called \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Kept Secret,\u201d but what would it look like if it was embraced by all \u2014 including \u201cthe world\u201d? This is an encore presentation from October \u201907.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:78%\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Image <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citywindsor.ca\/000356.asp?artist=sandys\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say it all started when Bill Gates admitted that the term icons \u2014 which are windows into heaven \u2014 and thus, Windows, are really trademarked by the Orthodox Church; not to mention when Steve Jobs and others finally came clean about that Apple design going back thousands of years to the very Genesis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Great Awakening<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some say it all started when Bill Gates admitted that the term icons -- which are windows into heaven -- and thus, Windows, are really trademarked by the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2009\/02\/the-great-awakening.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Great Awakening\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some say it all started when Bill Gates admitted that the term icons -- which are windows into heaven -- and thus, Windows, are really trademarked by the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2009\/02\/the-great-awakening.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orthodixie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-02-08T05:56:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/files\/blogger\/_iTncioBQZNk\/SY7K7roKGwI\/AAAAAAAACh4\/1-_E8HwLbf8\/s400\/EvesApple.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fr. 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