Sometimes decisions come after a lot of painful deliberation and ambivalence. Others seem to present themselves naturally, all at once. I...

Greetings from the ever-sparser apartment in Crestwood. Craigslist has been claiming one piece of furniture after another so as to make ro...

From yesterday's liturgy -- we're here listening to a brief word from Metr. JONAH. It was a beautiful service. Thank you to any and...

Study, O Priest, to make yourself a blameless worker, rightly dividing the word of truth. Never stand at the synaxis having hatred toward an...

In your kindness, remember me in your prayers; on March 18th, 2012 (Sunday of the Cross), I am scheduled to be ordained to the holy priestho...

"When one undertakes to examine Scripture in an idle, intellectual way, he creates hatred and quarrelling. Why? Because the intellectua...

One of my favorite groups (a trio of siblings) plays my all time favorite song (and lullabye to all three girls).

"...some of those who once called for tolerance and individual freedom have adjusted to the success of their programme and decided to s...

The original was HERE ... I added us in.

I said I wasn't "inspired" to write about seminary. Perhaps one should make that claim after the year has begun. The year ha...

Greetings from the ravaged leftovers of a post-Hurricane-Irene Crestwood, NY. Seriously: the photo to the right is the worst of our part o...

First off, a blessed beginning of the Dormition Fast to all on the Revised Julian Calendar. A week ago today we went up to New Haven, CT and...

I just...don't know. Really?!

Forgive the lack of updates; just a brief note to ask any and all to lift up Leo DuMoulin and his parents Justin and Anna , who attended sem...

The final few days of school, followed by the last week or two serving here and there, the final days of hospital internship...travel over t...

God willing, this Saturday, May 14, 2011, I will be ordained by Metropolitan JONAH to the Holy Diaconate at St. Sergius of Radonezh Chapel i...

The following is the gist of the homily I delivered this morning in chapel; this is a speech-to-text version from last night.The gospel read...

The following is the second written contribution for my Systematic Theology class. It is almost double the maximum word count; I apologize ...

I was chrismated into the Orthodox Church ten years ago today (liturgically speaking; as Pascha is a moveable feast, the actual calendar dat...

An old fav popped into my head at liturgy this morning. Poor Old Lu, anyone? Two stichera from today's Matins Praises: "Judas the ...

A full week. The seminary community put forth a relatively strenuous effort this past week with, in addition to the normal lenten daily Mat...

From this morning in chapel...one of the difficulties for me in putting this together was the fact that seminary guidelines constrain us to ...

"Listen to what the angel says: Therefore also that Holy Thing Which is [being begotten -- γεννώμενον ] of thee, in other words, that...

My eldest did this today. (Taken from my project, here .)

My wife told me about the OCA Truth blog the other day which means to serve as a corrective to the OCA News blog, which I sensed was kicking...

A third post for the day: The following is my homily for Exegesis for Preaching. Constructive criticism is welcome. -----------------------...

(This blog post is for a short assignment in Systematic Theology; as such, comments have been turned off) Almost four years ago, Luke Timoth...