Father Elias sent me this link: five-minute video of the Al Jazeera interview with Dr. Wafa Sultan. Well worth watching. She is more concise in her attack on Muslim wrongdoing than anyone I’ve ever seen. And, given that her rhetoric incited a cleric to pronounce her a heretic on national television, she is a very […]

Greg sent me this this morning from the news wires:
Isaac Hayes has quit Comedy Central’s South Park, where he has voiced ladies’ man/school cook Chef since 1997, saying he can no longer stomach its take on religion.
“There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and […]

According to this story, a recent poll is showing that Americans compartmentalize their thoughts on abortion, keeping ideas apart from each other so they don’t have to deal with the fact that they’re ethically and morally incompatible:
A solid majority long have felt that Roe v. Wade should be upheld. Yet most support at least some […]

Via NYT —
LOS ANGELES, March 10 — Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims.
Today, thanks to an unusually blunt and provocative interview on Al Jazeera television on Feb. 21, she is an international sensation, hailed […]

As a follow-up to this post about the Pope dropping the title of “Patriarch of the West”, when this showed up on OrthodoxyToday.org today, it generated this comment that the title-removal might have more to do with Western redistricting changes than outreach to the Orthodox:

One Catholic commentator has suggested that this move might not be […]

It was terrible to hear that Tom Fox, one of the so-called Christian activists who was kidnapped last year, was found dead in Baghdad. And the cry of pain from the Christian Peacemaker Teams homepage was from the heart:
In grief we tremble before God who wraps us with compassion. The death of our beloved colleague […]

Jesus Christ has become everything for you, so you must become everything for Him.
– St. John of Kronstadt

Reading Frederica’s book on the Canon of St. Andrew has made me appreciate the Canon services I visited this week and find again one of those times when Orthodox worship shows the kind of elaboration that comes from centuries of piety and reflection. And because my mind always goes off on rabbit trails, it has […]

Five days into Lent and I have to say: Soy milk — yuck! I think I’m going to try a blind taste test someday with wall paint to see if I can tell the difference. But you have to get your protein where you can, and anyway, it certainly helps with the whole mortifying the […]

Apparently, the pope is willing to shed the title of “Western Patriarch” in the interest of appeasing the Orthodox. Notice the problem? Yep, So did I.

My priest, Fr. Elias, sent out an e-mail with this article from Bp. Hillarion of Viena entitled “Pope’s Title “Patriarch of the West” Removed. What Does It Mean for the […]