Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in orthoparadoxy, saints and days on 19 October 2008 - 21 תשרי 5769
HAT KIND of people are we? When God gives, we wish to receive, but when he begs, we refuse to give. Remember, it was Christ who said: I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat. When the poor are starving, Christ too hungers. Do not neglect to improve the unhappy conditions of the [...]
Posted in Epicaricacy on 12 October 2008 - 14 תשרי 5769
AISE YOUR hands if you remember or know how to bake bread: not fancy, organic, stuff either, but solid, I-want-a-sandwich kind of bread.
Raise your hands if you remember or know how to make a chocolate cake for your family with next-to-nothing in the kitchen.
Raise your hands if you remember or know how to use potatoes [...]
Posted in teh internets on 10 October 2008 - 12 תשרי 5769
ESTERDAY I turned off the radio (NPR) after 45 mins. That was enough Apocalypse for one day. Today, I barely made it 15 mins. I switched over to Ancient Faith Radio which is one of 6 presets on my streaming radio collection (Dixie Broadcasting, WNYC, KQED, Radio Walsingham, Blissed Out Radio, and [...]
Posted in church geekery on 5 September 2008 - 6 אלול 5768
IS BEATITUDE, The OCA’s Metropolitan +Herman Retires! That’s what a good sex and money scandal can do to ya…
Posted in Teh Gay, orthoparadoxy on 2 September 2008 - 3 אלול 5768
HIS Encyclical letter from the Orthodox Church in America’s Synod of Bishops is pretty amazing for its candour and honesty - but not for its completeness. It focuses on the finances and not on the sex issues: and, lo, I think Institutional Orthodoxy is once again playing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”
Recognizing our weakness, and [...]
Posted in Epicaricacy on 22 April 2008 - 18 ניסן 5768
Word reaches us of of former coworkers loosing their jobs in non-profit layoffs (disguised as “restructuring”), letters speak of hiring freezes in higher ed and, this AM, NPR says NY State has a hiring freeze as well. My bank reports a huge loss lass quarter…
I’ve been told that things are, historically, so [...]
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