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So… I’ve tweeted it twice: I have awesome friends. Here’s the “Birthday Weekend Repot” along with the obligatory (oblogatory?) ramblings about where I’ve been and am going. Friday we had porch beer, a near-weekly event any more, although this was a doosey. And then Nate came and rescued me and took me to the club [...]

ITH THANKS To Priest Theodosius Walker, there is a video inside from Archbishop Lazar on fear and the death of compassion. He talks about the fallacy of “loving the sinner but hating the sin”.

The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom should I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, before whom should I tremble? When evildoers draw near to eat up my flesh, it is they, my enemies and foes, who stumble and fall. Though an army marches against me, my heart will not [...]

OMEHOW THE Exploration of this topic is driving my readership down by half… odd. I guess the more mundane sins and psychological hangups don’t drive traffic as much as sex and, say, the Antiochian Archdemons. Anyway… It’s my journal. I know the Evangelical world has taken the phrase “more than conquerors” (from Romans, Chapter 8) [...]

ERHAPS There is a connection between fear and love in the Greek… I think it has something to do with “being open to God” and “open to other human persons” as discussed in this quote from Bishop Kallistos. In the passage on Fear and Love, on the Love of God and the Love of Brother, [...]

F PERFECT LOVE Drives out all fear, I’ve got a long way to go. At the age of 45 I’m finally getting over my fear of the dark. I was always quite good with dark outside: I can walk through the woods or ride a bike (or scooter) in the countryside. I can even navigate [...]

Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness on the day of judgement, because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in [...]

ITH MUCH LOVE And many prayers from myself (and the choir of St Gregory of Nyssa Church) [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Dearest Friend, You have been in my life since April of 2005. You have been a constant companion, living with me in Asheville during times of struggle and joy. You have set on my lap or on my desk. You watched me fall asleep in front of the TV – even when you were the [...]

HE LARGEST Province in the Anglican Communion has declared full communion with the local, schismatic continuing church, made up of people who disagree on Doctrine, Liturgy and Tradition. But they, like their Guru, all agree that they hate the gays with a passion formerly reserved for blacks and Jews. Fr Mark Explains it all here [...]