I read this footnote to Luke 1:20 in the Orthodox Study Bible the other day, and I thought it was so interesting I had to share.
The verse comes as John the Baptist’s father, Zacharias, is told by the archangel Gabriel that he will have a son who will go before the Lord in the spirit […]

Just in case you were a child or teen of the ’80s and weren’t embarrassed enough by how stupid some of them were, you might want to check this out.

I think my favorite is “Mullet with headlights.”

Interesting that both Barack Obama and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates called this latest brouhaha and the allegations of racism over Gates’ arrest a “teachable moment.” I agree. So what should it teach them, now that both Obama and Gates have started backpedaling for all their worth?

If we’re ever really going to be post-racial as […]

Read this the other day:
When you feel that there is no peace in your heart, through an undue partiality towards anything earthly and worldly, and that, besides this, the heart breathes irritability and malice, be immediately on your guard, and do not let your heart be filled with the devilish fire. Pray fervently, and strengthen […]

I was thinking about my dad recently, and so I went onto YouTube and looked up this Laurel & Hardy movie called “Flying Deuces.” See the parts where a crowd is alternately chasing the plane and being chased by the plane? Somewhere in that crowd is my dad, at the tender age of about 11, […]

I recently took in a great Illumined Heart podcast at Ancient Faith Radio entitled “Insanity or Demonic Possession?(*)” To give away the punchline a little bit, there isn’t some patent laundry list that a layperson can tell insanity from demonic possession (thank goodness, right?), but the Church acknowledges that both exist. They are distinct states […]

“Well, what do you know? Today is the feast day for St. Elizabeth the Grand-Duchess.”
That’s more or less the internal remark when I was going onto the OCA site to check out something else and found that out. Saint Elizabeth was a saint I didn’t know much about until several years ago. But now I […]