Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalie

From today’s Prolog of Ohrid:
THE HOLY MARTYR ADRIAN AND NATALIA
Adrian and Natalia were husband and wife, both of noble and wealthy families from Nicomedia. Adrian was the head of the Praetorium and a pagan and Natalia was secretly a Christian. Both were young and lived together in marriage for only thirteen months until martyrdom. When [...]

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Lies, More Damned Lies

According to this news article on the recent approval of the so-called “Plan B” or “morning after” pill, it would seem like the prolife opposition to its approval is just a bunch of twaddle over nothing.
The pills are a concentrated dose of the same drug found in many regular birth-control pills. Taken within 72 hours [...]

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Holy Hieromartyr Eutyches, Disciple of the Apostle St John

From today’s reading from the Prolog
Eutyches was one of the lesser apostles and was born in Sebastopol. He was a disciple and imitator of the Apostle John the Theologian and the Apostle Paul. Even though he is not numbered among the seventy apostles, nevertheless, he is called an apostle because he was a disciple of [...]

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The Architect: Ergo, Concordently, Vis a Vis

The famous MTV awards sketch where Will Ferrell does the Matrix’s Architect. Rated PG-13 for some language. Beware.

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How to Argue Properly

[H/T: Ponty]

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The Holy Martyr St. Andrew the Commander and the 2593 Martyrs with Him

From today’s entry in the Prolog of Ohrid:
THE HOLY MARTYR ANDREW, STRATELATES [THE TRIBUNE THE COMMANDER]
Andrew was an officer, a tribune, in the Roman army during the reign of Emperor Maximian. He was a Syrian by birth and served in Syria. When the Persians menaced the Roman Empire with there military, Andrew was entrusted with [...]

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Vacuous Notes

Kevin’s reply to my third soteriological sidebar has a single point: he wants to assert that the debate on the generation of the Son cannot but be a debate within the very strict parameters of God’s nature and will. My argument has been that the generation of the Son, while inescapably involving nature and [...]

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My St. John the Wonderworker Blog Category Page

It’s late at night, and once again I find myself in a reflective mode. Life here has begun to fall into the shape of new routines, some good, some already not so good. But while it’s not that good a thing that I’m shorting myself of sleep–especially this week–the penchant for reflection during [...]

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St. John the Wonderworker’s Effective Intercessions

From here:
M.A. Shakhmatova witnessed the saint’s ascetic exploit in Shanghai almost from the very moment of his arrival there in 1934, on the feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple. She saw Archbishop John crucify himself in both founding and managing the orphanage. Living conditions were terrible, and the needs of the [...]

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The Brain Kid Thinks About Orthodoxy

Brain Kid’s Recent thoughts sure feel familiar to me.
Godspeed, friend.

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