The Centers for Disease Control came out with their 2012 report on Births in the US and they discovered that out of the almost 4 million births in America, over 1,600,000 babies were born this past year to unwed women. You can read the entire report at www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_09.pdf While I...
Here is this past Sunday's Homily. I pray it is a blessing to you. When The Rubber Meets the Road
Einstein's theories of relativity and space time mark science's attempt to explore and understand the created order. And reading about these ideas gives me a headache! But I am fascinated by the complex beauty and wonder these ideas reveal. A recent long term experiment conducted to test the theory...
Ralph Waldo Emerson once suggested that the greatest invention of humanity is friendship. But Emerson is mistaken. Friendship isn't man's invention. It is God's. No matter how hard we try to hide it, our hunger for intimacy, relationships, and communion always "spills" out of our hearts. That's why we hunger...
"When You, O Lord, were baptized in the Jordan, the worship of the Trinity was made manifest. For the Voice of the Father bore witness unto You and called You His beloved Son. And the Spirit, in the form of a dove, confirmed the truthfulness of His Word. O...
Words for me at the beginning of the year: "Love, endure, overlook, do not get angry, do not become irritated, forgive one another, in order that you resemble our Christ and are counted worthy to be near to Him in His kingdom." Elder Ephraim of Philotheou Mount Athos, "Counsels from the...
OK, I've got good news and bad news, and, it turns out it's the same news. Confused? Don't be. This reality is as old as time itself. One man's Good News is another man's bad news, and, as usual, it depends on the condition of your desires and your perspective. But...
At the height of the Jesus Movement in the 1970's in America, we had a "born again" President, Jimmy Carter, and we had the beginnings of the modern Church Growth movement and the start of what would become the megachurch movement among religious Americans. We also had a New York...
"I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Well, another year has come and gone and we stand on the cusp of a new calendar year. Inevitably we will be asked to read and reflect on the past year with its successes...
At the Feast of Theophany, our Orthodox on Purpose blog will celebrate our first year of ministry! We have over 2000 regular readers on our Facebook site, and growing readers on Twitter, Linkedin, and Google +. We have almost 2000 regular users of our Word Press blog site and a...
