There was God’s Will to consider, and God was understood often to give people not what they wanted but what they needed. He dealt with people not according to fixed principles of justice but in ways that would best bring about each soul’s salvation. The Byzantine term for this was oikonomía, and it is still […]

Father Justin Patterson of the OCA uploaded the video above to Facebook. It is the Paschal troparion sung to Appalachian harmonies, but conforming to tonal rules of the Slavic Orthodox. It was sung at a music workshop at the All American Council of the Orthodox Church in America, meeting in Atlanta in July of 2015. […]

There is an argument among some Orthodox as to whether it is appropriate to speak of there being fundamentalist Orthodox. I would argue that there are. From a lecture by The Rev. Joshua Raja John (UK Anglican), I abstracted the slide above. It has a good set of statements that are well worth noting and […]

During the last couple of days, a scandal has broken out that involves Planned Parenthood in the sale of body parts to various institutions. I have posted the short version of the video that broke the story, however, it is important that you know that the organization that posted the video has also posted the […]

I saw the above posting, as usual, on Facebook. I am not sure who the author is. But, like most postings of this type, the above is only possibly true if you make some rather odd assumptions about both the people involved and about what is ethical and moral. 1. You cannot legislate the poor […]

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken. One of the true tests of maturity is the realization of how many things you were wrong about. Although the most famous, Saint Augustine of Hippo is not the only one to have written at the end of his life an essay in which the […]

< p align=”justify”>Geeks have been known to have an odd sense of humor. The comic above is obviously from a person who has watched/read too much Dune, Star Trek, Star Wars, and maybe even a little Galaxy Quest. How many of those movies/books have you watched/read? Do you have a high geek IQ?

We have two pictures of America in our minds this July 4th. One is the traditional image of hot dogs, parades, and remembering the events that led to the founding of this country. The other one is the image of an America that is tearing itself apart as it polarizes into two camps, neither of […]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Arizona’s voters were entitled to try to make the process of drawing congressional district lines less partisan by creating an independent redistricting commission. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the majority in the 5-to-4 decision, endorsed what she called “an endeavor by Arizona voters to address […]