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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)

Mythology

And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth. When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it.
IBLICAL Literalists [...]

Roots Post #5

HE PATRISTIC Take on the Bible must, at once, seem very liberating to anyone who has suffered under a fundamentalism and yet infuriating to anyone who wants to dissect the text, crossed with historical research and cultural anecdotes about the “real meaning” of a certain phrase or political antecedents of such-and-such set of imagery.

Democratic Esoterica

T COMES To me today, as I’m driving up from North Carolina that the current political climate could be sketched out in Tarot cards, using both the esoteric and exoteric meanings. (This is your brain, this is your brain after 13 hours driving, any questions?) This is a work in progress…
The Fool, Barack [...]