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I know it’s a day late but I just had to post about the strange legend I learned about Saint Nicholas, whose feast day was celebrated on December 6th. A church friend told me that Saint Nicholas is famous for raising three children from the dead...
and all through the house, not a creature was stirring….because they were all sleeping off the food hangover from a day of overindulgence and gluttony. Uggh. I feel terrible right now. It’s times like this I’m really glad to be Orthodox and...
There’s a much over-used expression, “You don’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been”. Trite, but so true, and it could easily be applied to the history of the Orthodox Christians in the New World.
For a couple of months...
I am posting Rod Dreher’s very interesting article on the response of Virginia based Muslim cleric Iman Anwar al Alwaki to the actions of Nidal Hasan, 2009 front-runner nominee for Most Distinguished American Muslim, and the US...
I really thought I was going to avoid writing about the whole stupid Mayan calendar/2012 nonsense, at least not until the director of the upcoming end-of-the-world film ‘2012′ opened his mouth to talk about his medical problems with fear-induced...
