Christ is Risen!


Be Poets of the Logos!

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)

I’ve always wanted to be Opressed.

NSECURITY IS HIGH AMONG Alleged heterosexuals, according to the Episcopal Cafe:
Canon Chris Sugden of Anglican Mainstream… says, “The festival will be full of families with teenage children, a ready audience who might be persuaded by his [Bishop Gene Robinson's] sophisticated presentation technique.
OMG, is it really that easy to make gay people out of self-identited [...]

Toronto Pride 2009

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Originally uploaded by w.wabbit.

The pictures from TO Pride are posted to my flickr now. We bought this cool toy for our cameras…. many facets of pictures.
Brodie’s pics are also posted.

Sermon for Gay Pride Sunday

Preached on 24 June 2001 at St Gregory of Nyssa Church in San Francisco… sorry for the repost: I’m in Toronto at the Pride Festival.
t’s my sense that both these readings that we’ve heard today talk about healing of one sort or another. The Gospel speaks of an internal healing, and the Epistle talks about [...]

What to do for Pride.

RODIE AND I Will be in Toronto this weekend for Pride Festivities. It’s an intense party. In fact it’s about the best one I’ve seen and I’ve been for pride in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and a few other, smaller cities around the USA. I’m reposting this. It’s what we [...]

Resurrection Stonewall Kingdom

N June of 1969, the “Homosexualist” movement was having a hard time. The cops were closing down gay bars (again) and no one was helping. The mafia – which owned all the bars – was making payments on time, but the cops and the mafia had agreed: we’ll close down your gay clubs [...]

Co-incidence

Revised Common Lectionary:
Isaiah 6:1-8Psalm 29Romans 8:12-17John 3:1-17
Eastern Rite Lections:
Vespers:
Isa 43:9-14Wis 3:1-9Wis 5:15-6:3
Liturgy:
Heb 11:33-12:2
Mt 10:32, 33, 37, 38; 19.27-30
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life.
HIS SERMON Is being drafted [...]

Ah, more lies from the right on marriage.

Christ is Risen!

ATHOLIC New Agency reports that a Conference is being planned to help students ‘speak the truth’ on natural marriage. DId you get that? “Natural” marriage.
The rest of us do “unnatural” marriage.
Now, say what you want about genetics and “by birth” or “by choice” or “nature vrs nurture” or even “two keys [...]

Nobama but Obama

IRST Let’s take a look at some non-mythological history. Constantine was seeking a way to unify his empire. After the wars and division that plagued the collapse of the tetrarchy and his accession to the throne, a unified people was necessary. So he first decreed religious diversity, promising Freedom to everyone. His [...]