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Sarx (σαρξ) is the Greek word for "flesh". This is the blog of a Southern Man (sojourning in Buffalo, NY) attempting to follow God in the way of Jesus.

I am a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church in America (ROCIA). We are growing a Mission community here in Buffalo.

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Disclaimer

I who have written this story, or rather this fable, give no credence to the various incidents related in it. For some things in it are the deceptions of demons, other poetic figments; some are probable, others improbable; while still others are intended for the delectation of foolish men. (Closing lines of the Táin Bó Cúalnge)

And this is Goodbye

UN’S FUn, but now we’re done.
I thought about leaving personal messages to folks. Even surfed back through some very old posts and saw some comments last night that I wanted to recycle just to say “Love” or “Hugs” or, in not a few cases, “Bite me”. Some of you say things online that [...]

Former Palinode

I forgot this essay… reread it this afternoon. You know… it makes sense.
Originally published in 207, it makes a bit more sense of this journey and, I think, goes a long way to explain my departure.

Wrapping up

Y SOME STANDARDS I’ve fallen off in recent years: I’ve stopped ranting about “modernists” and “heretics” and, even, managed to offend some of my anti-modernist, anti-heretical friends. By other standards – my own internal meter, my confessor, etc – I’ve managed to make peace with a few people that used to really dislike me. [...]

Thirty Pieces of Silver

HE NEW MILLENNIUM Brought me to several surprising changes all at once. My job at the California Institute of Integral Studies allowed me to take classes at a discounted rate so I used my benefit to finish my BA. The BA Completion Programme at CIIS spent a good deal of time discussing why [...]

A detour…

ETWEEN THE POST On my grandmother (above) and January 1999, a number of things happened. My roomies asked me to move out – and I moved in with Rick, a friend I knew from St Gregory’s Church. At the same time, I was wrestling with what church means, what Christianity means. I’d [...]

Columbus Day

FTER MOVING To San Francisco in 1997, the purpose of my electronic journalling changed and moved entirely online. Even earlier, I began sending out the weekend report from the Church Center to friends of mine, but the primary purpose of that production was internal – a bunch of coworkers communicating. The news from San [...]

Krisp Memories

ere’s the second “greatest hit” from the Early Years. More Garrison Keillor, more sap. THis time, I was hearing about the first opening of a KK in Manhattan. I’m thinking it was 1996 still. This one also got me emails from all over the place. And, in case your wondering, [...]

Greatest Hits

URING THE Period of the weekend e-newsletter at the Church Center, I had two moments of internet fame – at the time when very few of us understood what the internet did. The first was this post on Baseball’s Opening Day in 1996. I received email from all over the country as people [...]

Retro Vade

ETROSPECTIVES Were promised for these ten days leading up to the beginning of my blogging sabbatical.
15 Years ago we were using an email chain letter as our electronic journal: several coworkers and myself would forward our “weekend report” to a central editor or editrix (I gave it up after a year, but then [...]

What the Sabbatical will Look Like

N 15 January 2010, this blog will hit a bit of a milestone: as far as electronic journals go – including an email newsletter from the pre-web days – this project will be 15 years old. I think I need to take a bit of time off. In fact, I really want to. [...]