I wrote a comment on my being an Antiochian priest and how that affected my viewpoint on the Syria situation. Since then, my local Metropolitan, as well as various Patriarchates and the Pope have weighed in on the situation. Since my original blog post was written, the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, […]
Anglicanism–weird and weirder
Back in 2010 a story broke loose about an Anglican vicar in Canada. The story made it all the way to the BBC. Reverend Marguerite Rea of St Peter’s Anglican Church, in Toronto, received complaints from Christians all over Canada after she fed communion bread to a German Shepherd cross named Trapper. Area Bishop Patrick […]
Preventable diseases and trusting God
In an AP story from yesterday: NEWARK, Texas — The teachings of televangelist Kenneth Copeland and his family focusing on the virtues of trusting God to keep healthy are under scrutiny after a cluster of measles cases linked to his family’s North Texas megachurch revealed many congregants hadn’t been vaccinated against the highly contagious disease. […]
Sometimes we are blind–Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke
I read an article that made me think today. I am fortunate to not have seen the performance at the VMA awards that involved Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus. But, the father who wrote the article watched the awards on TV with his 17 year old son. It was meant to be a togetherness time. […]
Syria, intervention, the world, and polls
Right now the USA is about to decide whether to intervene in Syria or not. As an Antiochian priest, what happens in Syria concerns me. It concerns me because our Patriarch is headquartered in Damascus, Syria. Thus, both the incredible slaughter and the possible intervention concerns me. Today, the government of President Obama received an […]
Video games and theology????
The quote below comes from the manual of a video game: Accidie: rejecting life… is a Middle English word, retrieved because the usual word, “sloth,” now only expresses a trivial laziness. Accidie is a form of spiritual despair, a refusal of grace, a bargain with nothingness that shuts out God’s gift of the new possibility. […]
First sleep, second sleep, monastic hours
From an NPR program: One particularly fascinating sleep fact that Randall reports is that the sleep rhythms of the human brain have fundamentally changed over the centuries. Medieval literary texts, medical manuscripts and tales make reference to a mysterious "first sleep" and "second sleep." The "first sleep" began shortly after sundown and lasted until after […]
When not to show a show
Above is a Walt Disney short that never gets shown on TV today. You can only find it on the Internet, not even in any cartoon collections from Walt Disney. The cartoon is no longer shown because there is frequent use of characters in “blackface.” As this is not considered acceptable today, that is but […]
A Tuff approach to violent school invaders
This morning I watched an interview on cable TV of Antionette Tuff, the woman who talked an armed Georgia young man to give himself up to the police. Up above is a tape of many parts of the conversation she had with the gunman. While parts have been cut out, all the essentials are caught. […]
Joke left me pi-eyed
“I love math jokes. They’re so calculated.” The drawing comes from the Facebook site of George Takei. The quote comes from a comment made on the picture. The name of the author of the quote was withheld for privacy purposes. OK, why does the drawing above spell out pizza?
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