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April 2021

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 22, 2021

Kept in Safety for All Time: Ending a Patriarch 2/4 (Heading for Holy Week)

The trends were never his friend, just God. He refused a Christianity of a particular...

April 20, 2021

Preparing for Palm Sunday and Holy Week (Guest Voice: His Grace, Bishop Thomas)

The Son is about to rise in the East as the Orthodox prepare to shout...

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 18, 2021

Join Global Christendom

The up to date are forever dated. The parochial are endlessly shocked by history. If...

April 15, 2021

The LOL of Winning

Phillip E. Johnson once called from his office at UC Berkley to me in Mongolia...

April 14, 2021

So Cold, So Calm, So Holy a Night (RMS Titanic Day)

The false normalcy harkens a change, a certain doom, but the winds of the Spirit...

April 11, 2021

Isn’t she outside? (A Nessie the Wonder Dog Story)

Hope is inevitably coming. What joy that will be! Nessie the Wonder Dog likes having...

April 10, 2021

The Baby Cheeps, the Old Cat, and the Courage of a Mom

The doves have hatched and we have a window box full of cheeps. Each morning...

April 08, 2021

Courage: Find An Ally and Fight (Greek Bicentennial)

We need courage just now. Courage, including physical courage, is not the greatest virtue, but...

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 31, 2021

Some Mr. Booth is Planning Tonight

Every year Americans face two anniversaries on one day: the sinking of the White Star...

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 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 24, 2021

Hellas: With No Monument to Preserve Her Except that of the Heart

Rootless, lost, unattached, homeless: these feelings overwhelm those who forget the mothers and fathers that...

March 23, 2021

The Dove, the Puppy, Athena, and the Mouse

Spring has sprung. In Houston that means critters, sheep gamboling at The College, chickens laying...

March 22, 2021

Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos (A Guest Post By His Grace Bishop Thomas)

Wise words are needed, a wise example more so, and Mary, the Mother of God,...

March 20, 2021

The Ball is Not a Chew Toy, On the Nature of Things (A Nessie the Wonder Dog Story)

Nessie has triumphed over her last ball at the cost of her favorite game. To fetch...

March 19, 2021

What in the world? The Glories of Really Hard Stuff (A Nessie the Wonder Dog Story)

Sometimes like Nessie, I just listen in wonder. May I never only listen to ideas...

March 18, 2021

Solidarity . . . Best I Can

Racism is evil. Objectifying women is wrong, a sin that is a particular application of...

March 17, 2021

Many Levels, Greater Joy

Hope came with a trumpet. Music filled the campus and an amazing thing happened. The instrumentalists...

March 16, 2021

Searching for Truth: On Pragmatics, Babies and Bathwater

A good life is more than pragmatic, but does take into account what works. If we are...

March 14, 2021

But Wait! (First Assumptions Count)

I think the truth is out there, is knowable (more or less). Reason, spiritedness, and...

March 11, 2021

Necessarily Uncertain

The just will live by faith. Faith means we must be reasonable even when uncertain,...

March 08, 2021

Losing is No Virtue, Victory at Any Cost Can Be Worse: An Argument in Favor of Civility in a Nation Seeking Justice

Are you tired of losing? Good. Any Christian citizen or subject of any nation will...

March 07, 2021

Vaccine!

I am thankful. I heard stories of what the polio vaccine was like, a bit...