Eight years and one month ago I published a blog post about the unavailability of clergy shirts in a guayabera design. I pointed out that clergy shirts in Panama design were available but that, sadly, no guayaberas were available. Well, I am now happy to report that clerical guayabera shirts are available. So, those […]

Saint John Chrysostom has several things to say about wealth and poverty. His sayings have been collected into a booklet titled “On Wealth and Poverty” which you can get at Amazon. Most everyone who is into the whole subject of wealth and poverty sadly only quotes one paragraph of multiple things that he said on […]

As Orthodox, we pride ourselves in conserving the Holy Tradition that we have received from the Fathers. We pride ourselves on the surprise people get when they read some of the Early Church fathers and find that it sounds like some of what the priest said this immediate past Sunday. We like seeing a photograph […]

Again, a tremendously enjoyable article in Internetmonk. It is actually a reprint from another blog (with permission) about God and how he works with us as a parent. It uses the popular phrase about parents today being “helicopter parents” and compares that to how God works with us in Scripture. Go here to read the […]

One of the earliest Christian writings outside of Scripture is The Didache ton Apostolon, the Teachings of the Twelve Apostles. It is worth reading for the wealth of information about how the Early Christians actually looked at life. It can be a very important corrective to so many of the ideas that we have nowadays. […]

On one of my favorite blogs, Internetmonk, there was recently an article responding to another article on Christianity Today called, “Why Most Pastors Aren’t Answering Your Phone Calls.” You can find the response by Internetmonk here. The original article was a not-well-done justification by a pastor on why pastors do not immediately return telephone calls. […]

“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” – Daniel Sarewitz, […]

“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. … Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that […]

The meme above is one of several that I have seen lately, and it points out how misinformed, and sometimes even deliberately misleading, some of the advocates of “healthy living” are. Frankly, most of the time they are simply incredibly misled and misinformed. They make the mistake of seeing the chemical name of some compound […]