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 […]

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370. Commercials for Jesus at the Super Bowl?

You get to write this Post. Or at least most of it. Did you watch last Sunday’s Super Bowl? – great game! said he who doesn’t much like football. Did you see the commercials? If you watched very closely, in between the likes of: and perhaps you noticed two short commercials, one of which concluded […]

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362. 1) From Saint Nicholas to Santa Claus in five images, 2)  Six Surprising Ways Jesus Changed the World, 3) Nativity Poems by Saint Ephrem the Syrian and by G K Chesterton

1.  Santa Claus! And now you know why Santa Claus is dressed in red. 2. Six Surprising Ways Jesus Changed the world by John Ortberg, Senior Pastor, Presbyterian Church, Menlo Park, California My notes:   This article was written during the 2012 Presidential campaign. I left it unaltered, except for two explanatory footnotes. We hear much […]

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359. 1) A little more about Ukraine. 2) Everything Imaginable and more about Saint Nicholas

Wednesday November 30: My email tells me that this week’s Post has just been published. I do believe I must have pushed the “publish” key two days early. Uh…whoops. However, this Post is almost ready to go. All I need to do is correct a few typos. This will give you more time to real all […]

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347. The changes I remember in the past eighty years: in the World, in Religion

In a comment last week, “Skip” shared a video of some of Bishop Kallistos’ humor. Lest you miss it, I’m copying it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR0KZT5rjZc ________________________________________ Introduction P.S. (“Prescript?”) added the day after publication: Please read the very perceptive and thoughtful Comments at the end of this Post, which mention important things I ignored. It is […]

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