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May 2021

May 16, 2021

The True Light, Do Not Expect So Little

Absolute romance finds a Beloved worth absolute commitment. The good God needs nothing, so when God...

May 13, 2021

Black Americans Were the Critical Factor in Winning the Civil War

Black Americans liberated themselves. The moment that there was a possibility of freedom, enslaved Americans...

May 09, 2021

Hearing (Also about Mom)

I try listening when I cannot see. "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word...

May 07, 2021

Real Armor: a Problem with too much Virtual Reality

"Is that armor. . .real?" This is a question asked of my son Ian, a...

May 06, 2021

Beware the Iconoclast: Icons are not Competency Tests

Hating ancient icons, deep truths, ends in ugly idols. Jingoism is the idol that mocks...

May 04, 2021

Trying to Understand the Curlytops as They Go Touring Around and Wondering if They Matter as Much as Gatsby

Could the Curlytops reveal as much to us about the 1920's as Gatsby? Probably not,...

May 03, 2021

The Absolute Necessity of Jollification Today: Party Better

The good God commands jollification. The world, the flesh, and devils resist a genuine good...

April 2021

April 29, 2021

Washing, Eating, Drinking, Glittering with Glory and Seeing Divinity (Pascha Almost Here!)

We do what we must, take joy when we can, knowing an eternal holiday is...

April 28, 2021

O Unction, O Balm for the Soul! (On the Way to Pascha)

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which...

April 27, 2021

The Bridegroom and the Bride: the making of a Father and a Mother (Passion for Pascha!)

Easter, Pascha, makes our life normal. Death is defeated by life. We are given a...

April 24, 2021

The Light on the Throne: Ending a Patriarch 4/4 (Heading to Holy Week)

“Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.” Before the New...

April 23, 2021

Died for His People: Ending a Patriarch 3/4 (Heading for Holy Week)

Patriarch Hermogenes loved the freedom to worship more than his own life. Could Russia be...

April 19, 2021

The 4 Semester Year Is Ending: Be Kind and Carry On!

There is a weariness that this delightfully normal summer, God willing, may bring to an...

April 17, 2021

We NEED you Larry Dexter! (On the News)

We need the journalism of Larry Dexter as described by Howard R. Garis. Howard R....

April 16, 2021

One Instrument at a Time just in Time

There was a french horn in our tub and this is a hopeful sign of...

April 13, 2021

Horrible Idea: On “On Critical Race Theory”

There is a horrible idea regarding "critical race theory." This bad idea has nothing to do...

April 09, 2021

Love Unites: Find What You are For (A Reflection from The Greek Bicentennial)

Love endures, perfect love casts out all fear. Since the Kingdom is motivated by love,...

April 07, 2021

Folk Art is Art (West Virginia and the Greek Bicentennial)

Missing all the trends is not missing culture. This mistake, confusing the spirit of a particular...

April 06, 2021

Beware the Clever Lies of the Functionary (Greek Bicentennial)

God save us from the role of functionary to the Empire: condemning what the powerful...

April 05, 2021

Dance with Zalongo (Greek Bicentennial)

The last dance led to death, but this martyrdom to joy evermore and memory eternal....

April 04, 2021

The Patience of the Orthodox (Pascha)

Patience will bring the final victory over sin, death, and devils. Easter joy to Christians...

April 03, 2021

Endure as the Greeks Endured (The Greek Bicentennial)

In the United States, some are tempted to impatience or unseemly panic. Instead, we should...

April 02, 2021

The Passion of Jesus and Chios (Greek Bicentennial)

Rebellion against the tyrants was not their first choice. When the choice was thrust on...

April 01, 2021

Lord Byron Got One Big Thing Right (Greek Bicentennial)

Lord Byron is a poet vaguely known, little read. He can teach all of us...

March 2021

March 30, 2021

King Jesus and the Martyred Gregory: An Example for Our Time (Greek Independence Bicentennial)

The way is shut. It was shut by the martyred dead and only on the...

March 29, 2021

The Ad Celebrating Greece that Facebook Will Not Run: Solidarity with the Greek Republic and the Greek Bicentennial

Can Facebook cancel Greek history? Why would they try? Or are they merely unwilling to...

March 28, 2021

The Debt We Owe to Enduring Greece (Bicentennial of Hellas)

Athens is a home of all who desire to know. There is a diaspora of...

March 27, 2021

In an Illuminated Cave in Crete (Happy Bicentennial Hellas!)

One Christian in Crete, in an illuminated cave, was greater than all the treasures of...

March 26, 2021

He was born in the Tomb of Agamemnon (Happy Bicentennial Greece!)

Make history. Tell a story and root that story in the people, family, and times....

March 25, 2021

200 Years of Modern Greatness: Happy Birthday to all of Hellas

Two hundred years ago brave men stood for liberty against a cruel empire. They could...