Borrowing their blessings
May 19th, 2012 | Books, Orthodox perspective, Slider | Grace | 1 CommentI remember a time when I was the little dog eating the crumbs that fell from the children’s table.
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Posts from the ‘Orthodoxy’ Category
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What if asking questions is a good thing?
May 13th, 2012 | Orthodox perspective, Pop goes the culture, Slider | Grace | 2 CommentsRemember how Carrie Bradshaw always used to end up typing questions that had no answers on her laptop? Do you ever feel like that in your prayer life?
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Easter egg
April 24th, 2012 | Orthodox perspective, Slider | Grace | 9 CommentsWhen I wrote this post, on Pascha Sunday of 2008, I was quietly amazed over a precious little find on my daily walk. Then, as now, little things help me work my way through the larger truth of Pascha. The reign of life has begun, the tyranny of death is ended … This is the […]
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Behold, therefore, my soul …
April 9th, 2012 | Orthodox perspective | Grace | 1 CommentBehold, the Bridegroom cometh at midnight, and blessed is the servant whom he shall find awake. But he whom he shall find neglectful is verily unworthy … I’ve heard the troparion of the Bridegroom matins services for quite a few years now. What — 20? 25? It’s the musical centerpiece of the services for the next […]
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Baptists and me
April 3rd, 2012 | Just a slice of heaven, Just my humble opinion, Orthodox perspective, Slider | Grace | 12 CommentsA friend was baptized recently, and so we went to a nearby Baptist church for the event. And it was bad. Bad for me, I mean. Other people might have thought it was fabulous, but I’ve been away from these slap-happy churches for too long, and the whole thing … well, it made me sick, actually. […]
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“From whence comes this beauty …?”
March 9th, 2012 | Orthodox perspective, Quotes, Slider | Grace | 4 CommentsGreg was our photographer for a trip to Prescott last week, and when I read something from St. John of Kronstadt this morning, I had to borrow them from him.
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“It is like we are back in the first centuries here”
March 7th, 2012 | La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective, Slider | Grace | No Comments“Last Saturday on my way to the printers near the Qalandia checkpoint, it was like a world war with burning tires everywhere …” Maria Khoury posts a blog on OCN’s The Sounding about how it feels to live in Palestine.
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Dublin’s stolen heart
March 6th, 2012 | Current events, La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective | Grace | No CommentsA strange theft in a Dublin cathedral was in the news. But how can thieves take what was already gone?
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Monastic masterpieces of sound and imagery
March 1st, 2012 | Orthodox perspective | Grace | No CommentsIn most churches, tonight’s our last night to hear the service of the Canon of St. Andrew. So I probably should’ve a topic with a longer shelf life for my post to OCN’s The Sounding blog. But as I’ve listened to the services this week, I remembered blogging that the Canon reminds me of Celtic […]
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H H S Ruling follow-up: Obama winks
February 13th, 2012 | Culture gone mad, Current events, Just my humble opinion, La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 1 CommentThe perception is that Obama’s supposed compromise on his ill-received HHS ruling amounted to him capitulating to religious opposition. But if he gave in, why do I feel so insulted?
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