Let us all praise King David, the ancestor of God, / for from him came the virgin stem: / from this stem blossomed the Flower – Christ. / Be...

My kids in school all sing "Ridin' Dirty." "Weird Al" Yankovic puts his spin on it with this. Love it.

(Just a note: there's some news in the post below this one that regular readers of this blog--however few y'all may be!--might be in...

A flurry of journeys hither and yon finally came to an end tonight when we came in from Oklahoma with about an hour to spare before Holy Sup...

...and thanks for all the fish? No, my dear readers, just an announcement that I shan't be updating for the rest of the Nativity season...

Padre Antonio and Matushka Elizabeth Perdomo of St. George's down at the border in Pharr, TX (yes, it's Pharr, Pharr away) are busy...

Gonna be a busy few weeks for us Orthodox...just feastin' away on...fish... ...anyways... Some hymns to St. Nicholas, with the bonus of...

Today is the feast of the Holy Great Martyr Barbara. Go here and scroll down a bit to be able to read her life story and the hymns sung to...

Orthodox Christians--along with Catholics and (perhaps??) some Protestants (fill me in if anyone knows for sure on that one)--are in a bit o...

Recently added Barnabas' blog to my blogroll, and read an excellent series of posts on Pentecostalism (his background) and how he sees i...

Orthodox Chrildren's Bible Reader !! Click here for a sample of the reader.

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding my spiritual life came just recently (yes, it's an instant classic wit...

Called different parishes around Lexington on Tuesday to see if any of them would be celebrating Divine Liturgies, praying Akathists, etc., ...

Folks, I'll be driving to KY this evening w/family and will be staying in Lexington for most of the upcoming week. Should be back next ...

Colossians 3:17 (Revised Standard Version.): "And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving...

Thanks to the diligence of my lovely wife, our parish has a website! Click here , or in the sidebar to check it out.

Looking for something beautiful to read about our faith? Owen of The Ochlophobist has a four-part apologia for Orthodoxy that is literally ...

Just to celebrate...it's a good day for us pro-life Democrats . We got to add six likeminded souls to our congressional ranks: Heath Shu...

Thank you all for praying. I was feeling better last Thursday, though I still stayed home. Now this week is taken up not only with bringin...

I've been home all this week with strep, and this is the first time I've been able to sit in front of a PC for more than five second...

The usual question--"How was church today?"--from my mother this afternoon, followed by the usual murmured "Oh, fine...good.....

Dixie's got a great post here about mindsets and conversion and how mental gymnastics don't always apply when wanting to fit in whi...

I was just notified today by a parent that her daughter--one of my students, Kaylyn--has been missing from her home for ten days now. She w...

Funny how things can speak right to you... Tonight at Vespers, the reading from the prophecy of Jeremiah: (2:2-12, Douay-Rheims 1899 America...

At the request of Stephen , the following is as brief an elaboration of my thoughts as I can muster re: the nature of "Israel"--wh...

In the Ancient Faith Radio archives, there is this supremely excellent "interview with Dr. Bradley Nassif on Orthodoxy and the Gospel...

Recovering still from a great three-day weekend with the in-laws, during which we went to the fair and saw the Zorya Ukranian Dance Ensemble...

Yeah...another audio download post for folks with a LOT of time on their hands to listen to stuff... Go here and you can download all nine ...

Thoughts lately have been coming back to conversations as of late between Orthodox and Protestants (of which I have been a part of or to whi...

No, I haven't forgotten that I do, in fact, keep a blog. So for those of you still checking after 11 days (because we bloggers can be f...

Rejoice, O Life-bearing Cross, the invincible weapon of godliness, the gate of paradise, the protection of the faithful! The Cross is t...

So I saw a link to this on Josh's blog , and I loved it; classic Rich Mullins: [In the middle of leading a chapel service at Wheaton Col...

So about a week ago, Matushka asked me if I would mind leading the intermediate (pre-teen, basically) group in Church School this year. Sin...

A great summation of the Orthodox view of same-sex attraction has been written here by Steve Robinson. Also there is the (ideal, yet sadly...

Owen and Douglas Ian have both mentioned The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann recently, and said mentionings have prompted me to pi...

If you have ever read Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the Middle English (or tried to) and are up to the challenge, I dare you to...

That seemingly omnipresent bloggerchick, Stacy, has written a couple of pieces-- here and here --that were prompted not so much by her expe...

So I can't sleep. Somebody sent me this 'cause they knew I liked the song. On the one hand, I'm scared someone took the time t...

School is off and running; with the illnesses of previous weeks beaten, my students and I seem to be getting into a routine now...just in ti...

Yes, those of you who check timestamps, I'm home again, home again. Hope is better--thanks for the prayers--but we had another doc appt...

...for daughter Hope (baptized Elizabeth), who has been sick with intermittent fever, congestion, pinkeye, and just general miserableness fo...

For those of y'all who already took the first one ...here's a second one . Now, I don't know how--not all my answers were as ...

There was no "Day 1" post because, unlike today, I spent most of yesterday either in bed, or walking around at half speed in a dru...

Check this out, all my theologically-minded peeps! I know, I'm a geek. Geek Orthodox, I guess.

Life is good...

So, yeah...four months since the last one...which means I'll probably get done with this in, oh, a decade or so... "Unto Thee will ...

I was blessed to be able to attend said Assembly last week, and, after a hierarchical Divine Liturgy, sat in on a talk by Fr. Thomas Hopko. ...

I did not commune this morning. Suffice it to say, I was not prepared. We'll leave it at that. It's always interesting to me to de...

God be praised for a wonderous and relaxing vacation. The trailer my aunt and uncle own--we call it simply "The Place"--is in Ang...