In April of 2004 Metroolitian HERMAN visited Georgia (the country not the US state). For some reason I fell in love with these pictures. No disrespect, but forget the hierarchs and check out that fresco! A 1000 year old Cathedral in Georgia. The Skull of Saint Thomas the Apostle. Due to historic isolation, the Georgian [...]
We watched most of Larry King’s coverage of the Katrina devastation. I simply cannot fathom what those people are facing. One of the experts pointed believed they would be setting up what amounts to a refugee camp north of New Orleans as there are about 1,000,000 homeless people as a result of the destruction. Lord [...]
You can ignore this if you want. It is the beginning of a bibliography for the St. Moses book. Feel free to suggest any others. You can purchase them for me at my Amazon wish list. Just kidding! Actually, I find amazon wish lists to be a great way to build a bibliography. The Life [...]
Yesterday was the day we remember Saint Moses the Black. KontakionYour mind was filled with a holy inspiration from God,Turning you from the lust and pleasures of the flesh,Bringing you to the height of the city of God!O Holy Father Moses, intercede with Christ God that He may grant us great mercy! I have a [...]
The infamous Westboro Baptist Church continues their militant ignorance by protesting at the funeral of a local soldier. According to their press release, God is punishing America for being a “rich fag nation.” I try to tell myself that the first amendment was written for these idiots. It gets worse: His in his retaliatory wrath, [...]
I have always claimed to have just enough computer savvy to get myself in trouble. Most of what I know I learned on the job as a help dest agent for a broadband ISP. So, when I realized that I could have two monitors on my computer and double my desktop, well I just had [...]
“There would be no need for sermons, if our lives were shining; there would be no need for words, if we bore witness with our deeds. There would be no pagans, if we were true Christians.”St John Chysostom Share on Facebook
Widely diverse reading goining on. Here are some nice quotes from three different reads. First God’s Politics (2005) by Jim Wallis. Christ commands us to not only see the splinter in our adversary’s eye but also the beams in our own…To name the face of evil in the brutality of terrorist attacks is good theology, [...]
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I’ve mentioned Mount Zion in passing in a few posts. Here’s the nickle version. My good friend Mike and I are publishing a literary journal. It is called Mount Zion Speculative Fiction Review. The subtitle is, “a journal of Appalachian Fantasy and Horror.” That’s right, a journal of fantasy and horror stories with an Appalachian [...]