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  New Rapture date … and a Protestant problem

  May 24th, 2011 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, La Vida Iglesia | Grace | 23154 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fcaution-the-moving-walkway-is-ending%2Fnew-rapture-date-and-a-protestant-problem%2FNew+Rapture+date+...+and+a+Protestant+problem2011-05-24+21%3A10%3A56Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2315

  Well, shucks. The Rap­ture didn’t hap­pen last Sat­ur­day. As I told Word­Mama, I’m kind of relieved to hear it, actu­ally. What if the Rap­ture DID hap­pen, and you’re one of the Left­Be­hinds? You’d get all sweaty like the guys in the Chick tracts. And in case you hadn’t heard, Harold Camp­ing took another look at […]

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  Save the date: Rapture will come Saturday

  May 16th, 2011 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, La Vida Iglesia, Orthodox perspective, Politics and Current Events, The looming crisis, Uncategorized | Grace | 23056 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Funcategorized%2Fsave-the-date-rapture-will-come-saturday%2FSave+the+date%3A+Rapture+will+come+Saturday2011-05-16+19%3A31%3A46Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2F%3Fp%3D2305

  Accord­ing to 89-year-old evan­gel­i­cal Harold Camp­ing, all the faith­ful will be Rap­tured at 6pm on Sat­ur­day, May 21. Seems like news you could use, if only to make the appro­pri­ate deci­sions re: dessert & alco­hol con­sump­tion on Fri­day.  Camp­ing has used “com­plex math­e­mat­i­cal for­mu­las” to arrive at that date — they’re the same for­mu­las that […]

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  Treading on thin, climate-controlled ice

  October 28th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Culture gone mad, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 14173 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fcaution-the-moving-walkway-is-ending%2Ftreading-on-thin-climate-controlled-ice%2FTreading+on+thin%2C+climate-controlled+ice2009-10-28+06%3A02%3A24Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Ftreading-on-thin-climate-controlled-ice%2F

  I love the Ortho­dox Church, but some­times when I read edi­to­ri­als and procla­ma­tions that come from the high­est lev­els, I want to scream. Case in point: This edi­to­r­ial in today’s Wall St. Jour­nal writ­ten by the Greek Patri­arch. Titled “Our Indi­vis­i­ble Envi­ron­ment,” the piece speaks of the Ortho­dox Church’s com­mit­ment to envi­ron­men­tal issues, not­ing that […]

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  Rats! and atheists!

  May 17th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Culture gone mad, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 129211 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fcaution-the-moving-walkway-is-ending%2Frats-and-atheists%2FRats%21+and+atheists%212009-05-18+00%3A07%3A56Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Frats-and-atheists%2F

  Don’t you hate to waste a lovely spring day on a bad mood? But the sun is glis­ten­ing out­side, lawn­mow­ers are hum­ming, … and I’m bummed out.

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  Is decay ever beautiful?

  March 16th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending | Grace | 12775 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fcaution-the-moving-walkway-is-ending%2Fis-decay-ever-beautiful%2FIs+decay+ever+beautiful%3F2009-03-17+01%3A35%3A15Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fis-decay-ever-beautiful%2F

  Post-apocalyptic piano bar? Nope, it’s the lobby of a long-abandoned hotel in Detroit, beau­ti­fully pho­tographed by two French pho­tog­ra­phers as part of a haunt­ing col­lec­tion called “Detroit’s Beau­ti­ful, Hor­ri­ble Decline.” You can see it HERE. Are ruins ever beau­ti­ful? The answer, I think, is yes.

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  Is it time to go inside?

  March 14th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending | Grace | 12613 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fcaution-the-moving-walkway-is-ending%2Fis-it-time-to-go-inside%2FIs+it+time+to+go+inside%3F2009-03-14+23%3A36%3A09Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fis-it-time-to-go-inside%2F

  Greg accuses me of ‘going meta’ at the drop of a hat. He can do a pretty good imi­ta­tion of me notic­ing a new fla­vor of ice cream and turn­ing it into a case against post­mod­ernism. He’s prob­a­bly right that I get a lit­tle loony some­times, judg­ing from the fact that a bit of gardening […]

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  Natural Man, Religious Man and the recession

  February 7th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Current events, Orthodox perspective | Grace | 12442 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fcaution-the-moving-walkway-is-ending%2Fnatural-man-religious-man-and-the-recession%2FNatural+Man%2C+Religious+Man+and+the+recession2009-02-07+18%3A24%3A07Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fnatural-man-religious-man-and-the-recession%2F

  There’s an essay called “Born to Suf­fer” in monas­tic newslet­ter I get called ‘The Veil,’ (monastery list­ing HERE) and in it I read: Our suf­fer­ings come in many forms, both col­lec­tively as a peo­ple or a nation, and also as indi­vid­u­als. As a nation/people, we do not have to look far into the past to see […]

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  Colder than it’s supposed to be

  January 16th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Culture gone mad | Grace | 12314 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fcaution-the-moving-walkway-is-ending%2Fcolder-than-its-supposed-to-be%2FColder+than+it%26%23039%3Bs+supposed+to+be2009-01-17+02%3A07%3A31Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fcolder-than-its-supposed-to-be%2F

  The dog and I have retired to the den. My office is a pret­tier room, but right now it’s also a colder room which trumps other con­sid­er­a­tions. Mis­souri isn’t being hit as hard as other Mid­west­ern states with this nasty cold front. But it’s still cold enough to make me say what I always say […]

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  A serious thought or two about tough times

  January 11th, 2009 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending | Grace | 12302 Commentshttp%3A%2F%2Fthis-side-of-glory.com%2Forthodoxy%2Fcaution-the-moving-walkway-is-ending%2Fa-serious-thought-or-two-about-tough-times%2FA+serious+thought+or+two+about+tough+times2009-01-12+00%3A21%3A51Gracehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-side-of-glory.com%2Farchives%2Fa-serious-thought-or-two-about-tough-times%2F

  I asked Greg what he thought of the Fred video I posted here, and it turned out he didn’t like it, even though he usu­ally likes All Things Fred. Greg didn’t like the switch from Fred’s usual folksy wis­dom to this arch bit of sar­casm. But more to the point, he didn’t see how a […]

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  “Yes, we can” what? Ruin the country?

  November 5th, 2008 | Caution: The moving walkway is ending, Culture gone mad, Current events, Political circus | Grace | Comments Off

  Con­ser­v­a­tives are sup­posed to be being con­cil­ia­tory right now. We’re sup­posed to be act­ing classy and doing all that ele­gant stuff like con­grat­u­lat­ing Obama and tak­ing our right­ful place as the losers with the ‘good sport’ pin on our lapel. That’s baloney. I’m a sore loser, and I’m hon­est enough to admit it.

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