None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See

From the UK Times this article: Fifty babies a year are alive after abortion.
A GOVERNMENT agency is launching an inquiry into doctors’ reports that up to 50 babies a year are born alive after botched National Health Service abortions.
The investigation, by the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH), comes amid growing unease among [...]

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For Proverbs 31 See My Wife

[Note: I clearly created a misunderstanding. Anna is not pregnant again. I've re-written the post. Geez. Can I screw up or what?!]
My wife. God love her. What an amazing woman. Get ready to hate her.
She’s a mom . . . of two; with stair steps less than two [...]

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“Not of This World”: A Review

[Note: I have, since 2002, read Blessed Hieromonk Seraphim's biography each year. Beginning sometime in the autumn, in September or October, I read a chapter or two most everyday. In 2002, my first exposure to Fr. Seraphim was through the first edition of his biography, authored by Hieromonk Damascene Christenson, Not of [...]

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The Fatherhood Chronicles LXXXVIII

The Simple Joys Parenthood Offers on Days Off
For probably another ten or fifteen years the singular joy of sleeping in on days off, vacations and holidays is gone. ‘Course Anna insists that if I get up at 4:30 or 5:00 on weekday/workday mornings and 6:00 or 6:30 on days off/vacation/holiday mornings then technically I [...]

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The Fatherhood Chronicles LXXXVII

Breakfast Time is Daddy-Daughters Time!
I’ve always loved breakfast. To the best of my knowledge, as a kid I never missed one. At our home, breakfast was good stuff. None of that sugary, chocolate-covered, rainbow-flavored crap. We’re talkin’ real, honest to goodness breakfast, just like God ordained in creation. Mom or [...]

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Good Frolicking Fun in the Fields of Logic

Over on the Grace-Centered Message boards I frequently visit, there’s been a thread initiated by some anti-fundamentalists over age of earth issues, specifically a critique of young earth creationism. It’s been very entertaining to watch the two main protagonists (or antagonists as the case may be) swagger through the posts on the thread with [...]

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Closer to Antioch

With a dash of romance to spice it up!
It has been almost a year and a half since I last posted on my journey to Antioch, that is to say, my journey to Orthodoxy. There are good reasons for that. When one writes a narrative, even an autobiographical one, markers are needed to [...]

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Orthodoxy and Closed Communion

In an article, Koinonia and Eucharistic Unity (pdf file; may require subscription to journal server), Peter C. Bouteneff makes some cogent points as to why Orthodox do not practice open communion.
The issue of eucharistic sharing continues to burn in the hearts of Christians who are yet disunited; as well it should. The Eucharist—as rite, as [...]

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Colossians 2 and the Nativity Fast

A friend contacted me privately to ask me about these verses that are assigned from the lectionary today:
If then ye died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as if living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to regulations–”Do not touch, neither taste, nor handle,” which things are all for corruption in [...]

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Domesticating Men

According to an article in the Harvard Gazette, Marriage lowers testosterone:
A man’s testosterone levels drop significantly when he holds an infant. Even holding a baby doll can decrease levels of the male virility hormone.
Married men, whether fathers or not, have markedly lower testosterone levels than single males, according to one of the first studies of [...]

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