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NE OF THE PREVAILING Myths among American Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy is that the CHristian East never went through a “dark age” like the west did. Of course, this is a lie. We never know how nuts we sound until someone else tells our stories: “The last five centuries of the Roman Empire (and remember [...]

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 rather than [...]

ER HOST HAS Been woefully remiss in blogging a wonderful discussion On Contexts and Biblical Interpretation over at Derek’s engaging blog, haligweorc (which I read to be Anglosaxon for “Holy Work” but I could be wrong). Our discussion on the context of parables grew from Donald’s post at Episcopal Cafe. If such theories as those [...]

AKE A LISTEN To Naomi Wolf discussing her new book on the ten steps that lead to a dictatorship, how societies close down and how easy it is to destroy a democracy. Point of order: I disagree with her about the Founders. John Adams’ Alien and Sedition Acts are a classic example of some of [...]

N 1931 Japan manufactured an “incident” and used that event as an excuse to invade China. Japan claimed that she had been attacked and the resulting invasion was only to protect herself from the horrid Chinese. In fact, it was a land grab for oil and resources. The US has recently pulled the same trick: [...]