"We are of one mind about this." I heard his words and I understood each word and it's meaning, but I had never heard this put this way before - "of one mind." What did he mean? But, hey, I was a kid of 22 and the situation was...
An Introduction to Original Christianity! It's almost HERE! The demographics don't lie. We are living in a time when it is hard to stay faithful to the Orthodox Faith. Our missing young people are a testament to that stark and sobering reality. But there is no use in cursing the darkness....
The latest statistics from the Archdiocese says that upwards of 80% of all marriages performed in the Orthodox Churches in America are between an Orthodox Christian and a non-Orthodox Christian. For some Orthodox Churches in Europe, this is a mystery since they still hold to the older wisdom on...
The word "asceticism" is something of a mystery to our modern way of life. We have lived with such plenty and such amazing comfort and ease for so long that now we assume that all of life is meant to be pain (and even effort) free. Just consider our...
Ever wonder how words lose their meaning? I have. I think of how society redefines things to suit their current thinking. But this isn't a new phenomena at all. We humans do this all the time. In fact, a famous president of the United States defended himself from serious...
Listen to this quote from St. Peter of Damaskos: “Patient endurance kills the despair that kills the soul; it teaches the soul to take comfort and not to grow listless in the face of its many battles and afflictions." Wow, "the despair that kills the soul." How often have I...
Why all the drama? OK, I have to confess, I am no fan of drama for drama's sake, and I'm in the house with two daughters who excel in drama! "She touched me" "She's looking at me" WHAT? She's "looking at you? Really? I guess I didn't get the...
He was serious when he said he didn't "need" to go to church to be a Christian. He could just be walking through the woods and sense God's presence. I had been wondering where he'd been. You see he had been quite faithful up until about a year ago...
It's always funny to hear people talk about what they think the Faith means by eternal life. I remember one movie from the 1990 called "Ghost" with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. The movie was about this tragic murder of a man and how the woman he loves copes...
I've paid the price for failing to recognize "a VIP" before. I was new police officer in a small town and hadn't really met all the "important people" in that town yet, and one day I pulled this nice Cadillac over for speeding on one of the side roads...
