145. Thirty Years Later, Part Two – What Being Orthodox for Thirty Years has done to me

Orthodox! To begin where we left off last time: I was chrismated into the Holy Orthodox Church  on September 16, 1989 by his Grace Bishop Antoun (may his blessed memory be eternal +) and ordained deacon and priest that same weekend! (Really? they all cried.) Their reasoning was that I already had over 20 years’ […]

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144. Thirty Years Later – Reflections after being Orthodox since 1989, Part One

First, let me apologize for all the spelling errors in last week’s Post (now corrected). I am recovering from Shingles (ugh!! If you can get the Shingles vaccine, please do!), and it was hard to concentrate. This concludes the medical segment of our program.  Part One: The Thirty-year Search   . I was chrismated on September 16, […]

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143. Greece 2012, Part Two – All by myself, Wicked Church Hopping, then Home

All Alone Khouria Dianna flew home and I was on my own on Crete. The place where I stayed was over a mountain, down the cliff to the Libyan Sea on an incredibly scary one lane gravel road. Pictures don’t begin to do it justice. That’s a 500 foot drop-off to the left. The nearest grocery, petrol […]

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142. Greece 2012, Part One: Too much Talk, some mild Philosophizing, and some Travel

Summer is about to flee here in the north, but September is the perfect time to visit Greece – not too hot, fewer tourists, lower prices, warm water. So in September 2012 I was off to my second favorite place in the world. (Wisconsin is first.) That was then. This is now. I can’t travel […]

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141. Guns in Church, Part Two – Protecting Orthodox People, Contributing to Society

I know that most gun violence in America takes place at home. However, here we’re talking about church. Trying to Protect our People in Church I just read in a conservative on-line magazine that it’s absurd to worry about gun violence one way or another, since chances of any of us getting shot up are so […]

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