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 ‘Slider’ 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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Drawing little altar boys
May 7th, 2012 | Books, Just a slice of heaven, Slider, The whole Art thing | Grace | 3 CommentsSorry I haven’t been doing much here lately. I’ve been unusually busy for once, putting in long hours that didn’t allow for much blogging. Any time in the past few weeks that Greg has called and asked what I’m doing, I’ve answered “What else? Drawing altar boys.” That sounds pretty weird, and it’s even weirder to […]
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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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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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