Archive for November, 2008
Everything’s Amazing, Nobody’s Happy
Posted in Humor, Or Laughing My Fool Head Off on Wednesday, 26 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
Travel Day Greetings and Gospel Meditation
Posted in Orthodox Feasts and Fasts, The Fatherhood Chronicles on Friday, 21 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
Nativity Fast
Posted in Orthodox Feasts and Fasts on Saturday, 15 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Each year brings a cycle of return. This is now my second Nativity Fast as an Orthodox Christian. There were five such fasts as I made my way toward the Orthodox Church. No two have been the same. Each, especially the last two, have carried significant sorrows as well as wonderful joys. I think I’m [...]
No Greater Love
Posted in Prayer on Wednesday, 12 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. (1 John 3:20) There is no sin that surpasseth the loving-kindness of God. –St. Spyridon of Tremithus (Saint Spyridon of Tremithus: Life, Miracles, Liturgical Service, and Akathist Hymn [St John of Kronstadt Press 1997], p 21) In three day’s [...]
Election of OCA Metropolitan
Posted in Orthodoxy on Wednesday, 12 November 2008 | 6 Comments »
According to the AFR website, Bishop Jonah has been elected Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in America! Axios!! Many years!! From the OCA website: Bishop Jonah of Fort Worth Elected Metropolitan of All America and Canada Posted 11/12 PITTSBURGH, PA [OCA Communications] — On Wednesday, November 12, 2008, His Grace, Bishop Jonah of Fort Worth [...]
Ancient Faith Radio: 15th All American Council of the OCA
Posted in Orthodoxy on Monday, 10 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ancient Faith Radio is podcasting the 15th All American Council of the OCA. Click on the link to listen/download the podcasts.
Eis polla eti, Despota!
Posted in Monasticism, Orthodoxy on Saturday, 8 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Archimandrite Jonah elevated to Auxiliary Bishop: On Saturday, November 1, 2008, Archimandrite Jonah (Paffhausen) was consecrated Bishop of Forth Worth and Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of the South, at St. Seraphim Cathedral, Dallas, TX. Consecrating hierarchs included His Eminence, Archbishop Dmitri of Dallas and the South, Locum Tenens of the Metropolitan See; His Grace, [...]
On the Priesthood of All Believers
Posted in Ecclesiology, Theology on Thursday, 6 November 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’d seen in my blog’s tracking stats, that a three-year-old post, Open Theism and the Essence-Energy Distinction, has been getting a bit of traffic recently, so I re-read it, and while doing so it occurred to me that definitional divine simplicity impacts the biblical doctrine of the priesthood of all believers creating a distortion that [...]
Noetic Battles Revisited
Posted in Church Fathers, Jesus Prayer, Patristics Sources, Prayer, True Philosophia, the Way of Life on Sunday, 2 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
In a previous post, I cited some ancient Christian teaching regarding the mind and the spiritual battle waged in the arena of thoughts. I want to return to the topic again, this time with some personal reflections. The past three months in particular have been a rather specific engagement with the notion of spiritual warfare [...]

