Coming into church this morning, my mind was already awash in details to sort out. It’s rare that a major feast falls on Sunday, but when it does, things get more complicated. So I was being a good lead chanter and reflecting on all things Theophany-related when one of the chanters who’s a recent convert […]

Anam Cara pointed out something regarding that last post that had bothered me as well. I’m listing Adherents‘ stats for how many Christians there are worldwide, but Adherents counts a lot of the culties as Christian: Mormons, Christian Scientists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, etc. etc. It doesn’t seem right to include them in a worldwide Christian tally.
So, […]

A friend sent me the “Village of 100” meme a while back, and I’ve been noodling over it ever since. You know the one — it tells us to think of the world’s population as a mere village of 100 people, thus changing abstract percentages into small numbers you can relate to. And the moral […]

You know you’re Orthodox when the rest of the whole WORLD is saying “Happy New Year” to each other and you’re saying “Blessed Feast of the Circumcision!”
I bet we’ll never get our own Hallmark card either. So sad.
(Happy you-know-what and Blessed you-know-what, everyone.)