Have you tried to explain blogging to anyone? I had to do it this week, and even with Greg there to provide real exposition (”Blogging might be described as …”) to my verbally-challenged attempts (”Well, here’s the thing. It’s kinda … no, wait … well, y’know…”) I’m not sure we covered it. A blog is […]

Here are a few comments to fellow Ortho-bloggers:

I’d appreciate input — especially helpful links for inquirers — for the Orthodoxy section article.
The links are a bit of a hodge-podge right now. Instead of coming out in categories as I’d like, they’re all thrown in together and alphabetically. So for now, it’s very, y’know, […]

What’s in a name? Well, maybe the relative popularity of different names does tell us something. I invite those with too much time on their hands to go to this site and investigate the rise and fall since 1900 of names like Dick, Adolph, Beulah, Agnes and Eugene. And sometimes it’s a fall and rise, […]

Another gem from the Ortho-convert list, in response to a long thread about whether Orthodox consider that they are assured of salvation and what part they play in their salvation:
Orthodoxy is a journey. It is a path you must follow. If you do not follow the path you do not reach the destination […]

Frederica Mathewes-Green has an essay coming up in “Christianity Today” that seems to me to provide some of the purest wisdom around on the nature of the battle Christians have today with making our voice heard in the debate about morality. Christians know the rules, and hopefully we practice them, but can you imagine actually […]

I’m home this Sunday morning because the hubby took ill. So he’s upstairs sleeping the Sleep of The Thera-Flued, and I thought I would peruse the Ortho-blogosphere.

This post from Dr. Mark Reynolds includes a fine three-point refutation of the dumb comparison between gay marriage and interracial marriage. I especially liked his last point:
The great Western […]

Well, I didn’t mean to leave things so long that I would be having the State of the Union address going on, but I did, so I might as well blog.
(But first, the dog is restless. And with all due regard to Mr. President, the dog’s business most certainly takes priority. Plus, I’m recording …)

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Okay, […]