Magnificat anima mea Dominum, et exsultavit spiritus meus in Deo salvatore meo — My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. During Advent, in both East and West, this great prophetic hymn of Mary is read in the churches. Whether Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Anglican, or Protestant, Mary’s hymn has become […]

  The Thanksgiving weekend is not even over and we already have this year’s first salvo of the yearly complaints about the anti-Christian War on Christmas. The American Family Association has now proclaimed: AFA is calling for a limited one-month boycott of Radio Shack over the company’s censorship of the word "Christmas." For years, Radio […]

“In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world,” he said. “This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of […]

Because of all the misuse of “end-times” theology, we have often reacted against apocalyptic language. We will read about the forecasts of the end times and, every time, they are wrong. In the Eastern Roman Empire, what is now called the Eastern Orthodox Church began to react somewhat against apocalyptic because of the many false […]

on this second video, if you wish, you can skip the speech and go to minute 7:50 for the beginning of the performance Yes, I was born in Latin America. But, I must admit that growing up in an Anglo-Saxon environment has made me into something of an Anglophile. At least one of my contributors […]

In Internet slang, a troll (/?tro?l/, /?tr?l/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a forum, chat room, or blog), either accidentally or with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response […]

I really like the comic above. It catches the spirit of what synergy means. In its simplest terms, synergy is our willing cooperation with God’s work. But, in the Orthodox sense, synergy is our willingness to take steps of faith in order to allow God to works his change in us. And, yet, we must […]

I am a Federal employee. I have a cousin by marriage who is a Federal employee, and not being paid. I have a daughter who is a member of the Army Reserve. I have a son-in-law who is attending school on the G.I. Bill after having served in more than one Middle Eastern country. My […]

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The video above has played on several news channels. It shows a Republican Congressman harassing a Federal employee. Why can the Congressman do it? Well, because he knows that he can get away with bullying someone whom he can probably get fired should […]

From FactCheck.org: Republican Rep. Robert Pittenger is misleading his constituents by saying that he will decline the health insurance offered to members of Congress next year because it includes a “special subsidy” from the president that “exempted” Congress from the Affordable Care Act. Congress isn’t “exempt” from the law. It wasn’t exempt back in 2010, […]