After doing due diligence with both sets of folks for Thanksgiving, Greg and I are winding up with a little business and pleasure combination in San Diego and flying back Thursday. All of this gives me the occasion to get in a little time in one of my favorite cities and do blogging from another […]

Some odds and ends from here and there.

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This, from the Orthodox convert list-serv, which was asked the Orthodox view on the anti-Christ:
From Fr. David Moser:
It is certainly an Orthodox belief that just before the second coming of Christ, the end of all things and the great judgement there will be a man who is “the […]

WHOMP!
It must have made that noise, though I slept through it. But we got so much snow in such a short time, it had to have sounded something like that. I took the dog out at nine-ish last night and there was no snow. We’d been hearing that we would get snow, and so I […]

Redford has decided not to move to France.
(Best quote in the story comes from the Calgary columnist who said, “Stay home, you pathetic, whining maggots!” Sorry, Huw, I know you don’t like the snarky stuff, but this one was too good to pass up.)

Uh-oh. Locusts in the Holy Land. Abandon ship.

Does anybody else think the developing situation in the Netherlands is one of the most interesting things going on right now?
If so, here’s another tidbit.
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And besides all that, does somebody want to explain to me why Holland is also The Netherlands but the people and language are Dutch? Those aren’t even close! By golly, you […]

I’m asking for prayers for the priest of my new church, Fr. John from Holy Trinity OC in Kansas. He had been having stomach pains, and now they’ve determined that he has a tumor in his pancreas. It isn’t the extremely fast-spreading and indestructible kind of cancer (thank God!), but a very rare type that […]

America has two great dominant strands of political thought … conservatism, which at its very best draws lines that should not be crossed, and progressivism, which at is very best breaks down barriers that are no longer needed or should never have been erected in the first place.
Bill Clinton said that at the opening […]

This fine entry on OthodoxyToday.com called “Tripartite Formulations: The strengths of threes” says something that doesn’t get said enough: that the evidence of God and the beauty of His craftsmanship exist in math and geometry.
The ancients understood the strength of things arranged in threes, and the thesis that “a threefold cord is not easily broken” […]

Haven’t I been saying that the Democrats need to find those poor little Christian Democrats they’ve had hog-tied in Terry McAuliffe’s garage and let them out? But this from the New York Times isn’t quite what I had in mind:
Bested by a Republican campaign emphasizing Christian faith, some Democrats are scrambling to shake off their […]