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  • Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    Dancing the Ruins

    January 16, 2010 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    Lock Ridge Furnace, Alburtis, Pennsylvania

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    Blessing the Waters

    January 14, 2010 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    Members of the Orthodox Church of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, gather at Furnace Dam Park on S. 10th Street in Emmaus to bless the waters during the 2010 Theophany season. (The building in the background is one of the main sites of the Rodale Institute.)

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    Ecological Vision in James Cameron's Avatar

    December 25, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    Ecology was never particularly a subject I thought I would find myself thinking too much about, much less writing about, but it seems to keep coming to the fore for me, especially as I’ve begun to apprehend more of its theological, rather than secular/political, significance. Framing this theological vision in terms of “the story of home” (which is one literal rendering of oikologia, from…

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    The Cosmic Cathedral

    December 16, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    Sunday of the Forefathers of Christ, December 13, 2009 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick Emmaus, Pennsylvania In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. If you follow the news, you know that this past week and in this coming week, the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, is hosting the United Nations Climate Change Conference. During…

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    Christianity and Ecology: Lessons on Sustainability from the Early Irish Sea

    December 11, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    A fascinating event held recently at St. Paul’s was this seminar and discussion led by Prof. Alfred Siewers of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (referenced in this previous post). You can now listen to both parts of the recording made of the seminar via Ancient Faith Radio: Part One—the bulk of the seminar, introduced by your host, in which I warble on a bit…

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    "The machine thus spoke for itself"

    December 11, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost, November 29, 2009 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick Emmaus, Pennsylvania In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. On November 29th, 1877, a 30-year-old inventor in New Jersey handed a sketch to Swiss-born machinist John Kruesi and instructed him to build a new machine. Over the course of the next…

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    Sweet Afton

    December 9, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes, Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise; My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring stream, Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. Thou stockdove whose echo resounds thro’ the glen, Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den, Thou green-crested lapwing thy screaming forbear, I charge you, disturb not my slumbering Fair. How…

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    The Defamiliarization of the Christ

    November 30, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    There are many times when I am speaking to someone about Christ, even within a church context, that I feel like I am speaking about an alien visitor from outer space. It is quite similar to the feeling I sometimes have when referencing some piece of history that interests me for which my interlocutor has no context or experience to make it meaningful. I…

  • Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    My Emmaus

    November 11, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    I remarked to my wife the other day that I now really don’t want to live anywhere but in Emmaus (we live in Allentown for the moment but hope that that will change in the next few years). I have started referring to this place occasionally as “my Emmaus.” (The genitive case is, of course, not merely the possessive.) I’ve moved a good many…

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    Images of Emmaus

    November 7, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

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    New Podcast: Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy

    October 6, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

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    "[He] didn't see any God there."

    October 4, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. On October 4, 1957, the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union made the following transmission: “As a result of great, intense work of scientific institutes and design bureaus the first artificial Earth satellite has been built.” Indeed, it had not only been built, but Sputnik 1,…

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    The Voice

    September 23, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    Today’s saintly commemoration is the conception of John the Forerunner, known to most English speakers as John the Baptist, which is narrated for us, along with his birth, in the first chapter of Luke’s Gospel. A major thematic element for today is the Voice. Zachariah, not believing the archangel, is made bereft of his voice until such time as he participates in the naming…

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    For us, there is only the trying

    September 16, 2009September 16, 2015 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    Among other saintly commemorations today, we remember Ninian, the Enlightener of Scotland. From all apparent worldly analyses, St. Ninian was something of a failure. He’s called the Enlightener of Scotland, because he first brought the Christian faith there in the final years of the 4th century, but he wasn’t terribly successful. He never saw the astounding conversions the way Columba did nearly 200 years…

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    Barton Decker, barber

    August 31, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    This past Friday, I made another assay into the streets of and around Emmaus to find myself a decent barber shop. My first haircut experience in Emmaus, to put it frankly, hurt. I have no idea exactly why that gent had such a need to dig the clippers with such fervor into my neck, but, suffice it to say, once I did my fiduciary…

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    Ancient History meets American History

    August 30, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    On Saturday the 15th of August, after we completed services for the Dormition, members of the Orthodox Church of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, manned a booth at the festival marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Borough of Emmaus. One could say that we are a church obsessed with history, and so it is only fitting that we should make one small footprint into…

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    "This ancient and honorable name"

    July 31, 2009July 23, 2016 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    The image above is of the Knauss Homestead, one of the founding family homes in Emmaus, established in 1777. It was the patriarch of the clan, Sebastian Knauss, who first donated land in 1759 on which Emmaus was to be built. The Homestead property borders directly on that of St. Paul Orthodox Church, where I am pastor. It’s probably a decent assumption that we…

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    Religion's Changing Face in Emmaus

    July 22, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    My koumbaro (fancy Greek term for “ecclesiastical relative,” in this case, my daughter’s godfather) is visiting with us here for a few days, and this afternoon, he and I visited my favorite local coffeehouse to get a little caffeination and chat in. While we were there, we talked a bit with the proprietor, as well as with a fellow who stopped in and was…

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    In the world, but not of the world

    July 9, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, July 5, 2009 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick Emmaus, Pennsylvania In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen. Yesterday was the 233rd anniversary of our country. This year marks the 250th anniversary of the town of Emmaus and its 150th anniversary as an incorporated borough of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.…

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    Arrival

    June 28, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    For my inaugural post after arriving here in the Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania, I will simply point you to two defining texts that I’ve put together for this weblog: This Work and The Road to Emmaus.

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    The Road to Emmaus

    February 17, 2009 · Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick

    This weblog will be activated in the summer of 2009, when its author will take up his abode in the borough of Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

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