They Could Not Heal Him
"I need to speak with your supervisor." The customer service lady on the other end of the line could tell I was frustrated. I had already called several times to find out why what I had ordered had not been delivered. First they told me it had been delivered....
There’s No Profit in It
I remember thinking "We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto." It was one of those moments in our journey to Orthodoxy that caused my soul to say "Aha." A point of enlightenment about just how profound our newfound, and ancient faith was going to be for how I thought about...
They Provided FOR Them
I've heard this all my life "God will provide." I remember hearing it when me and my brother and my mom were near poverty when I was young, and He did. I remember hearing it when I watched my family go through a shattering crisis, and He did. I...
Spiritual Germs!
You see it in every restaurant bathroom you go to: "Employees must wash their hands before returning to work." I've even seen detailed instructions in bathrooms as to how to wash one's hands properly! In 1546 Italian physician and scholar Girolamo Fracastoro first suggested that unseen "germs" were the cause...
A Prophet Without Honor
"Hey, I know that boy. I've known him my whole life. Who does he think he is?" I confess, it hurt a bit. You see, I was preaching one of my first "sermons" and some "friend" of the family who had, actually, known me and my parents since I...
The Wisdom to Know the Difference
George Bernard Shaw once said "Youth is wasted on the young." What he meant by that is when we have great strength and potential, we are still too immature to take full advantage of our possibilities, and when we gain the wisdom of the years, we tend to have...
What Makes You Unclean?
My dear bride has a hard and fast rule for my two girls: "Wash your hands!" You see, my wife is a trained elementary school educator and part of that training has to do with hygiene. Teaching children to wash their hands before they eat, after they play, and...
Childlike OR Childish!
The great 20th century thinker, Aldous Huxley, once said "Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision." Funny, now that I think about it, he's right. Children have the power of a clarity of thought that...
They Kill Prophets
I know it is a bit "old fashioned" and it may be hard for those of this generation to understand, but the timeless message of the Faith is that we are called to battle and tame the passions! So, then, what are the passions? Some may say "I thought...
Because of Their Unbelief
The late Fulton Sheen once said "Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius." And there is simply no other vice that destroys both parties as completely as jealousy. It cankers the soul of the one who experiences it and it reduces the object of jealousy to a forever unreachable...