"To honor and obey." I remember hearing much howling about this phrase even years ago as the feminist movement became predominant in our culture. For a woman to have to "obey" her husband was insulting, demeaning, and needed to be removed from the ceremony. "We are equals" was the...
Sunday, August 14th, join Fr. Barnabas and his special guests Fr. Nicholas Louh of ASt. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Jacksonville, FL. and his Presbytera Dr. Roxanne Louh, a clinical psychologist, and we hear from this dynamic couple how they see their ministries working together for the...
As much as we might hate it, conflict isn't bad. It's just not pleasant. But if the highest "good" in our lives is to avoid unpleasantness, then we are headed for either eternal delusion or a rude awakening. I'll go even further and say that conflict is necessary for a...
So, what's it going to be - your way or our way? I guess your answer will depend on how you see yourself. If you think of yourself by yourself then self interest is going to trump community interest. But if you think of yourself as in community then...
My grandmother assured me many times when I was young "The Lord won't put anything on you you can't bear." As I became an adult, I questioned that wisdom many times in my life. But, what do you know, I'm still here! And yet, I would be less than honest...
"We have an eye witness." Well, that got his attention. You see I was helping with an investigation with a recent spate of home burglaries in the area and we had caught a suspect in one of the neighborhoods where this was happening. This young man had been very...
It's just who I am. I remember my time at an Evangelical Protestant school for my undergraduate degree, and the 2 years of homiletical (how to give a sermon). It was a bit gruelling and my professor was particularly tough on me. One day, I was walking with another...
It doesn't make sense. Jesus says some difficult things in His teachings and the Church continues this "challenge" to our intellect. The Lord says things like "If you want to be free, be a slave." And "If you want to live, you have to die." And even "If you...
If somebody would have told me my society would undergo the shifts it has gone through in the last few decades, I wouldn't have believed them. Perhaps it's a result of my increasing age when we "old folks" look at the world and say "this new generation" is changing...
G. K. Chesterton once said "True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare." So true. Real contentment is something that doesn't come "naturally" in a world...
