411. The adventures of an old happily-retired priest suddenly called back to work

Retired The old retired priest is me, of course, and this will be a very personal story. I don’t think I’ve ever written anything quite like this before. There will be very few images this time, because who wants to look at me? Every time I stand before a mirror I think “Who’s that old […]

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410. The Many Concerns of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

1) The new conservative ecumenical coalition, 2) Secularized education, 3) The Environment, 4) Ukraine and Patriarch Kirill, 5) Abortion? Homosexuality?  Introduction I greatly admire His All-Holiness Bartholomew, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Please understand that I am a priest of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of North America, answerable directly to His Eminence Metropolitan Saba and […]

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409. The Role of Women in the Church: The witness of Three (let’s make it Four) Saints – Part Two

Forgive me again. This week I’m a day late. * Personal note: I’m ok, Carlos. As I said last week, I’m writing here about something I don’t know much about. A man pretending to understand women? Nonsense. (I hope that wasn’t a sexist comment…) Therefore in these two Posts we’re trying to learn directly from […]

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408. The Role of Women in the Church: Three Saints – Part One

You know I’m compulsive about getting these Posts out every Friday, but I’m two days late this time. I hope this doesn’t disturb the cosmic clock. If the Second Coming is now two days late, you’ll know who to blame. Introduction I was originally about to do something foolish here. I’ve done it before. I […]

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407. The United States of America: Christian? Religious? Secular?

Independence Day Today Independence Day is just a time for picnics and fireworks. We seem to give little attention to our actual Independence, its principles and its repercussions.  The United States and Great Britain have long been best of allies. And there are those of us who think Britain’s parliamentary form of government is slightly […]

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