For more than a decade now, the United States has worked to promote democratic revolution in the Muslim world — overthrowing otherwise stable regimes to make way for democratic governments presumably better able to satisfy and thereby pacify the restless … Continue Reading →
If you’ve sung for long in a church choir, you’ve probably been told to make sure you pronounce all final consonants. You might also have been told to make sure your t’s don’t sound like d’s. You might even have … Continue Reading →
Earlier this month, we were blessed to celebrate the marriage of our elder daughter to a fine, young, Orthodox Christian man. It was a beautiful event, held at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Washington, DC. A few … Continue Reading →
I had planned not to blog about the recent tragedy in Newtown, Conn., for two reasons: One is that I’m finishing another book and don’t have much time for much else; the other is that what one is expected to … Continue Reading →
We Orthodox sing these words every week, but they are still a lesson to learn. We need a savior, but no mere mortal will do. We rightly look for fathers to show us the way, but our only true father … Continue Reading →
Did the Apostle Paul invent positive thinking?
“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and … Continue Reading →
When an earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, evangelist Pat Robertson made headlines by saying the earthquake was God’s judgment on the Haitians for their wickedness. At least one of other religious leader, the Patriarch of Moscow, and a few Haitian … Continue Reading →
My favorite television show is Restaurant: Impossible, the only show I know when to watch (Wednesday night). After more than a year of trying to bring order to an institution that should be the very source of order in the … Continue Reading →
Jan Stevens, father of slain U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, wants Mitt Romney to stop politicizing his son’s death. Well, we can all understand the pain he must feel to be reminded so often in the news of his … Continue Reading →
A troubled Christian writes:
I have some good friends of my wife’s that are a Lesbian couple. They have been together for 6 years and are honestly some of the most generous friends that my wife and I have ever had … Continue Reading →
