Kerfuffle by KicsterAsh on DeviantArt Recently there has been a kerfuffle going on in the political campaign. In different ways it involves both Hillary and Trump. And, it has me frustrated because it is a kerfuffle that is based on pressure outside the law. What do I mean? Well, Hillary has been being pressured to […]

This is to honor a large group of civilians who were never properly honored. We remember the police and firemen of 09/11. Most of us are not aware that the largest maritime evacuation in history took place on 09/11. It is estimated by the Coast Guard that over 500,000 people were evacuated by Coast Guard, […]

I normally do not respond directly to another writer’s blog, as this can lead to strong misunderstandings and sometimes even inappropriate comments. It is worse when I generally agree with most of the writings of that particular author. In all honesty, when it comes to politics he and I are about as far apart as […]

  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 […]

I published a post yesterday on a subject that included, in passing, a comment on the insistence on the use of King James English only in Orthodox services. There are only some that insist on that, but they are a strong enough force to prevent the updating of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy into modern English […]

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 […]

The Princess Bride is the ultimate “chick flick” as far as I am concerned. But, as a priest, one of the funniest scenes is the marriage scene with the eccentric bishop. He says: “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam… And wuv, tru wuv, will […]

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. […]