First, let me say that—as an Orthodox priest—I cannot support violence. I both must support peaceful resolution, and I am committed to supporting peaceful resolution. Violence is something that we need to dread and see as only an acknowledgment that this is a very fallen and damaged world. At the same time, we also need […]

There is no point to this post. It is for the meat lovers among us. So, do any of you have any good marinating recipes for meat that involve heavy amounts of Greek beer?

“PTSD, don’t leave Nam without it.” Though the picture above is of a patch, I saw the saying above on a t-shirt yesterday. I ached when I saw it. PTSD has been present in every war ever fought. Sometimes it has been called combat fatigue. Sometimes it has been called shell shock. In 1000 BC […]

On 29 March, I published a post on how Pope Francis took practical action to rein in a bishop who had spent inappropriate, and maybe even immoral, amounts of church monies on building a personal mansion. He removed the bishop from the diocese and simply said that the bishop would receive some future assignment. I […]

Thanks to my nephew in Miami for the meme above. I had never caught that the front of his uniform (in the movies) does look just like he is wearing the Flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. So, below is the national anthem of Puerto Rico.

When we look at the lives of the saints, we study those lives in order to be inspired, to see how God unexpectedly works in the lives of men and women who are willing to follow him. But, often we also see examples of how we are supposed to behave, and what can happen when […]

Jake Rush is a former sheriff’s deputy and an attorney running in the primary against first-term Florida GOP Rep. Ted Yoho. … But in his spare time, Rush also dresses up in costumes and participates in supernatural live-action role-playing games featuring vampires, werewolves, and gothic elements. Actually, I would vote for this guy. Anyone willing […]

Just yesterday, I listed logical fallacies that people can fall into. Some of the fallacies are the result of deliberate action. Many of them are due to inadvertent mistakes. But, the first graph is a deliberate attempt to mislead. Note that in the first graph it visually appears that about three times as many people […]

As you can see, the poster above comes from http://bewareofimages.com. While I do not support some of what is on the site, they are good at pointing out deliberate lies, inadvertent lies, omissions of truth, etc. I find the poster above to be a quite good one. It lists the most common logical fallacies found […]

From the Vatican website, dated three days ago, 26 March 2014: Con riferimento all’amministrazione della diocesi di Limburg, in Germania, la Congregazione per i Vescovi ha studiato attentamente il rapporto della Commissione voluta dal Vescovo e dal Capitolo Cattedrale, per intraprendere approfondite indagini circa le responsabilità coinvolte nella costruzione del Centro Diocesano “St. Nikolaus”. Atteso […]