Congratulations are in order! Our good friends Zac and Lindsey Wingerd are now the proud parents of the good lookin' fella to your righ...

...but mostly Bush... This guy's talented, and funny as heck...

...or so those who protested in Dallas/Ft. Worth would have me believe. Ridiculous protests like these just baffle me. We had students wal...

Nothin' new under the sun...I can't believe the name(s) of the saint in the second entry on this page of oca.org. Just when I thoug...

Yeah, I know, ANOTHER post today...last one, I promise... As some readers may know, we have, for several months, been trying to find a suita...

Fr. Joseph Huneycutt just posted a great litany of things real Southerners know. Thought I'd share some my aunt-in-law emailed us the ...

One of my favorites of the year; so glad I don't have to miss work to attend in a few hours! Sprazdnikom ! Epistle Reading Gospel Readi...

I seem to have gotten away from these...today's psalm is a goodie to come back to... But first, a commercial! First off--and I'm not...

...of The Lion , the monthly newsletter of St. Mark's in Denver, the (unofficial?) flagship parish of the Western Rite in the Church h...

If you've got the time, my conversion story from Protestant Evangelicalism to Orthodoxy is finally in electronic form here -- or you ca...

So Audra and I get back to Ft. Worth last night (at 11:30), and actually get a good night's sleep (thanks, Anza!). We go to the new bui...

Spring Break is finally here, so it was a quick finishing up of mid-term grades, and here we are now in Tulsa, in my aunt and uncle's ho...

Or Geek Orthodox, or whatever else you wanna call me... Seriously, a thank-you to Stacy , whose invited me to be a contributor to The Orthod...

Canon of St. Andrew last night--Audra's due to return shortly from tonight's installment of the same, the second of the four which o...

My favorite hymn was sung tonight at Forgiveness Vespers: "Let us begin the fast with joy! / Let us prepare ourselves for spiritual eff...

Colossians 3:15: "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." Yeste...

...Audra and I came up with that parody of a line in this poem last night...thought it an appropriate (or, rather, sufficiently-random) lea...

Posted quite a bit after the fact--this happened on the 18th--Fr., Matushka and their son Nick were over for the blessing of our home. Some...

V INDICATE ME , O G OD... We are all fallen creatures. Twice in this psalm there's the idea of innocence--washing your hands in innoce...

Lord, have mercy... http://www.byzantinesacredart.com/iconographer-inspiration-kosovo3.html

WARNING: The following is an attempt at humor and should not be taken seriously so...y'all chill out. "11 In him you were also circ...

This picture is cool. It would be cool to pray here.

Went with Audra yesterday to St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Euless to hear Fr. Dan speak on Salvation and Baptism (two separa...

T O Y OU , O L ORD , I L IFT U P M Y S OUL... This psalm, Fr. Patrick says, is basically a reflection of this one verse, and can encompass ...

Previous Phases: Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Phase 6 Phase 7 Phase 8 The following pics were taken today when I went to church f...

The following is a reply to a friend of mine who wanted to know what I thought about this article ...basically an article about what Protest...

...thanks to Stacy for bringing the following to my attention. Most of y'all read this from me last month...now read this from sky at...

Took the day off from school to attend the Divine Liturgy at church today for the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple . A beautiful service, ...

Just finished Gabriel García Márquez's first novel in ten years, Memorias de Mis Putas Tristes (see sidebar), or, in the English versio...

First things first...links to the previous phases of the building program: Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Phase 5 Phase 6 Phase 7 These are...

So Audra and I are with Hope last night, in her room, doing our shortened rule for Evening Prayers with her, and I'm trying to focus on ...