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Archive for December, 2006

Year-Odds and Year-Ends

Posted in Blog Announcements on Sunday, 31 December 2006 | 1 Comment »

It has been a heck of a year for us, to say the least, with a lot of testings, but not without blessings, too. I can honestly say that when the New Year (’06) rang in, I had no idea what my family and I were in for. Much of what I had [...]

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Rich Mullins: Homeless Man

Posted in Christian Life and Witness, Kansas on Friday, 29 December 2006 | 1 Comment »

Mullins lived for some time in Wichita, where my family lives, and attended Central Christian Church (which belongs to the group of churches I grew up in).
YouTube - Homeless Man: Rich Mullins Part 1 (7:42)
YouTube - Homeless Man: Rich Mullins Part 2(5:56)
YouTube - Homeless Man: Rich Mullins Part 3a (6:35)
YouTube - Homeless Man: Part 3b [...]

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Bringing It Home to My Cold, Cold Heart

Posted in Christian Life and Witness on Friday, 29 December 2006 | 6 Comments »

Lyrics below the cut.
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NPR on the ‘O Antiphons’

Posted in O Antiphons on Saturday, 23 December 2006 | No Comments »

NPR : O ANTIPHONS
[Thanks, to Huw]

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The Fatherhood Chronicles CVII

Posted in The Fatherhood Chronicles on Thursday, 21 December 2006 | 14 Comments »

Prayers in the OR Waiting Room
By now many of our friends know, and some of my readers have inferred from an earlier post, that Anna has had a miscarriage. This has happened in the midst of some other difficult circumstances related to my own family, which only deepened the sense of pain and loss.
Coupled [...]

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Mute and Blind

Posted in Dailyness and My Life on Friday, 15 December 2006 | 4 Comments »

We are, say the saints, to see suffering as both the just consequence of our personal sins, and the boundless mercy of our God who in his compassion and love for us, seeks our healing and transformation. Such difficult measures are needed, we are told, because the disease runs very, very deep and the [...]

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That East West Thing

Posted in Orthodoxy on Wednesday, 13 December 2006 | 6 Comments »

[For Tripp who double-dog dared me.]
There’s been a dust-up at several places in the blog-o-sphere of late pitting Orthodox against Catholic, Orthodox against other Orthodox, and not-so-innocent bystanders against both over the purported fundamental differences between the (intentionally redundant) “Eastern Orthodox East” and the “Roman Catholic West.” Even my own priest, the inestimable Father [...]

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Vatican Confirms St Paul’s Coffin Has Been Found

Posted in Orthodoxy on Wednesday, 13 December 2006 | No Comments »

Vatican confirms St Paul’s coffin has been found
VATICAN archaeologists have confirmed that St Paul was buried beneath the Roman church bearing his name.
They said they have identified a Roman sarcophagus beneath the main altar and an epigraph: Paul apostle-martyr.
A small hole in the lid of the stone coffin, through which pilgrims would push pieces of [...]

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Christian Persecution in Turkey 1922

Posted in Saints and Martyrs on Thursday, 7 December 2006 | No Comments »

The Rev. Archimandrite Nektarios Serfes gives an historical account of Christian martyrs in Turkey:
Victims of horrible torture, many Orthodox clergy were martyred for their faith. Among the first was Metropolitan Chrysostomos who was martyred, not just to kill a man but, to insult a sacred religion and an ancient and honorable people. Chrysostomos [...]

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This Is, Well, Classic

Posted in Classics on Thursday, 7 December 2006 | 1 Comment »

Aristotphanes complains “Today’s Audiences Just Don’t Get Me“:
What has happened to the comedy crowds these days? Can you tell me that? I don’t know what it is, but I just can’t seem to connect at all with the average audience. Seriously, folks, what is the problem here? I’ve been doing this a whole lot longer [...]

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