I decided I would celebrate the Christmas season the really old-fashioned way this year by praying it in several times a day at a monastery. I had one other agenda item: deciding whether or not to ask Dottie to marry me.
Dean's List of 21 Reasons to be an Orthodox Christian.
Mass Shootings: Conspiracy defense vs. Jesus offense.
Is it bad to be a friend of Vlad?
Rex Tillerson must be a villain. Trump’s pick for Secretary of State received in 2012 Russia’s “Order of Friendship” Award from Vladimir Putin himself.
The former Exxon CEO joins, among many others, such Friend of Vlad Award villains as the Canadian Prime Minister, the head of the European Jewish Congress, two astronauts, a figure skater, and Lebron James’s basketball coach.
Are the Yellow Deli folks a cult?
Winning with the Old World Order - James Perloff’s journey to Orthodox Christianity.
Video here. Audio podcast here. James Perloff is a prominent author exposing the New World Order, formerly a contributing editor of the John Birch Society's "New American" magazine, and a prolific alternative news writer. He share his journey to Eastern Orthodoxy and finding the church that follows the Early Church in its beliefs and practice.
Unity with the Ethiopian Orthodox after 1500 years? Some hopeful talk on communion (Interview with Archbishop Alexander)
Is Putin a Christian? Has Russia replaced U.S. as world's moral leader? — interview with James Perloff
Youtube here. Audio podcst here. According to longtime anti-communist and anti-New World Order author James Perloff: "Unlike so many U.S. officials who, indoctrinated by the Council on Foreign Relations, place global interests above America’s, Putin is a nationalist who looks out for his own citizens. . . Putin has signed into law a ban on ads for abortions, while calls for ending abortion altogether in Russia grow. . . Among the Russian people, Putin enjoys unsurpassed popularity."
Catholics caused modern atheism, and the Protestants didn't fix it—Interview with Jay Dyer
Youtube here. Audio podcast here. Today's occultic and atheistic society in the West can be traced back to basic theological decisions of the Church a thousand years ago. Both Catholics and Protestants ignored certain key basic philosophical teachings of the historic, Eastern Church the first thousand years, choosing instead to hold the emphases of Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle as more important than the Fathers of the Church.
Mr. Dyer Goes to Jerusalem----Spiritual journey of philosopher/thinker/film critic Jay Dyer.
Real Black Power - Twelve things Ethiopian Orthodox Christians can teach American Christians
We white people are just so used to thinking of blacks and Africans from a colonial perspective, where the people from the dark continent have been so blessed the past 200 years to learn from their white conquerers. But Ethiopia (the only African country not to be colonized, pushing back two Italian invastions in both 1899 and 1935) is not like all the other African countries where Christianity coincides with white invasion.
Sharing my spiritual journey with the son and biographer of Young Life's founder
The Mother and Child icon is not seasonal.
This is what binds society together. This is what makes men productive instead of wastrels, whether in the form of gamblers and substance abusers or country club narcissists. Without the image of a helpless Christ, we are reduced to pre-Christian goals of conquering and enslaving to support our self-centered vision of life.
Is this the End Times? What has the Church always taught?
My Dad went to Dallas Theological Seminary with Hal Lindsey, whose mega-bestseller The Late Great Planet Earth launched end times madness into mainstream culture in the 1970s.
My mother was not a big fan. Lindsey lived nearby, the nerdy single guy who came by for dinner. If she made a batch of cookies, Hal seemed to eat them all. He dressed shabbily, had crooked teeth and unkempt hair, and he talked a lot about his weird end times papers.
