Thursday, July 17, 2014. Oh, So THATS What Youre Talking About! Often you tell the Orthodox how puzzled you are that we do not seem to have forgiven you for some of the offenses of long ago. We, in turn, are puzzled by such charges. What makes you think so? As you cannot read our hearts, our usual conclusion it that this accusation is made to duck the theological issues that are the real cause of our division. So why are these two items still sticking points today? Fair enough.

A White, Middle-Aged, Relatively Rich, Overweight American Woman Tries to Live Out Some Sort of Biblical Jubilee. We plan events; we consult on making your events and workplace more spacious; we write and speak. SPACIOUS emerged out of a blogpost written on this site a year and a half ago.

Sunday, March 27, 2016. Roman Catholic Priest Crucified by ISIS. A story found in a British news source from March 23. Words are not enough to really express just how disgustingly abhorrent this is. And regardless of your religious proclivities, any good and honest person should condemn this as a barbaric act and condemn the perpetrators of this act as inhuman savages. Sunday, February 21, 2016. The beginning of the Triodion. Most of us, if we were honest, would admit we do not .

Sunday, September 23, 2012. They are the ones who take the tough children and have to keep giving them back to a relentless system that has no answers for the pain and struggle. After they have struggled and loved and given all they have and banged their heads against the wall and rent open their hearts, they can say Enough! And pass the children onto a fresh heart, a renewed head.

On this day Adam rejoices and Eve his wife,. Because their daughter rests in the place where they are gathered. On this day the righteous Noah and Abraham rejoice. That their daughter has visited them in their dwelling-place. On this day Jacob, the honourable old man, rejoices. That the daughter who sprouted from his root has called him to life.

The Joy of Living the Ancient Faith in the Modern World. An Unscientific Gift from Darwin to Believers. Used to be I fancied myself above all that. Have to say I was more upset that folks were upset than that I bothered with their discomfort. Not the warmest thing, thinking your fellows wrong because of their desire for certainty, huh? Well yeah. Conceit runs in many places including mine.

My purpose here is to clarify many of the statements made to various interlocutors under my last post. I do, in fact, recommend reading this post carefully before the one immediately preceding it.