The video above is of the last night of the Greek Festival in Alabama, right after the night finished. At this point the festival booths have closed, and the band is playing a closing piece or two. The members of the parish and the visitors who are left have joined in a massive dance to […]
Archives for September 2014
On writing a blog
I have been writing this blog since 2008. Originally, it began as a type of personal journal. I had tried journaling several decades ago. What really happened is that I wrote some interesting claptrap that I decided should never be seen by anyone other than me. But, there is a difference between writing for your […]
Modern Christians and low expectations
During the persecution of Diocletian, there was a maid in Spain named Eulalia. She is now a saint, after being tortured to death at the tender age of 12 or 13. She is celebrated in Barcelona and the French have a heroic poem about her. In the poem it says in part: … Raising her […]
Oriental Orthodox liturgical dance
A couple of posts ago, I wrote about how old liturgical dance is. At that time, I had traced at least one strand of it to Spain in either the late 1400’s or early 1500’s. But, since that post, one of the readers of this blog pointed out to me what I did not know. […]
Sigh, moderates are hard to find
You may have read that Senator Ted Cruz was booed off the stage at the In Defense of Christians conference. What makes it really bad is that people from differing viewpoints were deliberately invited to that conference. What could have been a speech that would express one point of view for the sake of discussion, […]
Saint Raphael on The Episcopal Church
I found the letter below on the Orthodox History website. I can remember going to Nashotah House (an Episcopal seminary) and seeing a photograph of St. Tikhon with various Episcopal bishops. At the seminary I was told that this was proof of the closeness that there had been between Anglo-Catholic Episcopalians and the Orthodox. And, […]
A letter to one who asked questions
Recently, I received a question through the e-mail from one who had become Orthodox. I have made sure that neither his name nor his place of residence is mentioned. My answer to him is below. I have edited it mildly to make it read better. ======= It took me longer than I thought to […]
Babyboomers, we so do not have a legacy
We are currently enduring the worst Congress in American history and it’s packed full of Baby Boomers who are no better at compromising than a 3-year old on methamphetamines, and comprehend internet privacy and drone laws just as well. So the Baby Boomers inherited the most robust manufacturing force on the planet and then sold […]
Love, discipline, Romeo, Juliet
Where are these enemies? Capulet, Montague? See what a scourge is laid upon your hate that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! … Whiles Verona by that name is known there shall no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet. … A glooming peace this morning […]
Behold, this hath touched my lips
In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And […]
