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Δοξα Σοι Κυριε

Doxa Soi, Kyrie.
I read this a while ago and I have *no* idea where it was - or the religious or political leanings of the writer. I’m open to link suggestions and apologies in advance to the writer of that post - especially if I’ve taken it someplace unintended!
We say it in Liturgy before [...]

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Sunday of St Mary of Egypt

Reposted from the podcast last year…
THE STORY OF St Mary of Egypt has always had a special appeal to me because of my history. taking a profligate life and turning it Godward, as she did, she shows me a sign of hope: there is a possibility that I can find rest in the Lord.

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The Annunciation being a fish day (¡YAY!) I’ve prepared some lovely Moroccan spiced Talapia to take to the monastery today for Trapeza.
Had a very cool discussion with Peter yesterday about the recent series of “emergent” posts on Praxis A’ville. (There’s more coming, btw - forgive the delay: documenting dialogue is rather different from BlogPost writing!) [...]

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Sourdough

Who is this, Yer Host, and why does he have so many names?
I tend to obsess on finding old friends: I’ll do a google and ring up someone from School. “Hi, X! You mayn’t remember me, but we were in Mrs Rubin’s 5th grade Class together at Emma C Chase…” “Hi, [...]

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Sunday of St John of the Ladder

Reposted from last year’s podcast. As I continue to repost these texts I see many roots for my current struggles and I see many lies - that I told myself or used to cover up my own doubt. It’s interesting to read this text from a year ago, written for an Orthodox education [...]

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Fix it, Jesus

Interesting. A Baptist scholar (president of an SBC seminary) says Homosexuality may be based on biology, and (rightly, I think for one who believes as he does) goes on to say that doesn’t justify it. But then says we can treat this in utero. Which last seems to me to be just [...]

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