409. The Role of Women in the Church: The witness of Three (let’s make it Four) Saints – Part Two

Forgive me again. This week I’m a day late. * Personal note: I’m ok, Carlos. As I said last week, I’m writing here about something I don’t know much about. A man pretending to understand women? Nonsense. (I hope that wasn’t a sexist comment…) Therefore in these two Posts we’re trying to learn directly from […]

Read More »

408. The Role of Women in the Church: Three Saints – Part One

You know I’m compulsive about getting these Posts out every Friday, but I’m two days late this time. I hope this doesn’t disturb the cosmic clock. If the Second Coming is now two days late, you’ll know who to blame. Introduction I was originally about to do something foolish here. I’ve done it before. I […]

Read More »

407. The United States of America: Christian? Religious? Secular?

Independence Day Today Independence Day is just a time for picnics and fireworks. We seem to give little attention to our actual Independence, its principles and its repercussions.  The United States and Great Britain have long been best of allies. And there are those of us who think Britain’s parliamentary form of government is slightly […]

Read More »

404. All Saints of North America

Since I’ve been traveling all week, this is a re-run of Post 69 from June 8, 2018, unchanged except for the introduction, and to update some information.  All Saints’ Day Why do we Orthodox have a day to celebrate all the Saints? Because there are far too many to be commemorated individually. Orthodox Wiki lists […]

Read More »