All right, I’ll be totally honest, though it kills me. Bush just plain didn’t do as well in this first debate as Kerry did. I’m not sure why Bush seemed so flustered. He looked like he was getting steamed up over some of what Kerry was saying, and I thought he missed all kinds of […]

Well, mark your calendars. It’s here. The first morning that I picked a long-sleeve shirt to wear. That must mean that the season of autumn will actually happen this year. (Me and Puxatawney Phil hang together sometimes and predict stuff just for the fun of it.)
Sure enough, when I take Clementine out to attend to […]

Well, how long did it take to go from assurances from scientists that we would never clone human beings to this?
And here’s the most chilling sentence:
Professor Wilmut has stressed that his team has no intention of producing cloned babies, and said the diseased embryos would be destroyed after experimentation.
What a relief, right?
(Political part coming up. […]

If you have interest in a much better answer to the article by Dr. Bouteneff, consider this from George Strickland at the Orthodoxy Today blog.
If you don’t want to do any more mental heavy lifting, here’s the capper:
American democracy may not be the ideal, but is there an adequate replacement? Approximation to the ideal is […]

In response to this silly post, Fr. John McKuen referred me to an Orthodox Haitian mission which sells “Mission Bleu” coffee. Being one of the slowest human beings in the world, I only today have gone investigating. Here is more information about the coffee and the mission.
It seems like a very good way to give […]

(sing with me now)
The glory of the Lord has shown on you,
Exult now, exult, and be glad, O Zion
Be radiant, O pure Theotokos,
In the resurrection,
The resurrection of your Son.
You got it, didn’t you? It’s from “The Angel Cried”, the wonderful hymn that greets us at the Paschal service and stays with us like a merry […]

I know these political discussions seem to take us out of the hard-won peace that we share in the One True Church and deposit us into the loud squabble that we want nothing to do with. But as I said earlier, this seems worth more consideration.

A very interesting thread is going on on the Touchstone blog-site concerning this article from Beliefnet.com and now on the OCA Web-site, entitled “How Should Orthodox Christians Vote?” Since the author, Dr. Peter C. Bouteneff, teaches dogmatic theology at St. Vladmir’s Seminary, I have no doubt of his level of erudition, but like James from […]

When Christ sent the disciples out into the towns and villages, He exhorted them to be “wise as serpents, but gentle as doves” (Matt 10:16). That verse, like so many of the more quotable ones, has become many things to many people, but to me it suggests that we are encouraged, even exhorted, to be […]

I would like to feel sorry for Dan Rather, but …