20120224 Seeds, News, and Judgement

Shownotes The Prodigal Son – Eating Pig Pods… and loving it! News Update on the homestead: prepping purchases of note (traded the jeep for a Smart Car, little house in the woods, pantry system from Shelf Reliance, Abortion safer than giving birth: study – Yahoo! News For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage […]

Homily: Eating Pig Pods – and loving it

Homily on the Prodigal SonSt. Luke 15:11-321 Corinthians 6:12-20 A Metaphor on Food One of the best ways to understand sin is as those things that damage our health [explain].   We were made so with feedback loops so that we could diagnose the things we had been eating that were causing us harm [explain]. […]

Homily – Why are we eating ourselves to death?

20110925  Homily on Easting…. and Love2 Corinthians 4:6-15; St. Matthew 22:35-46

20110128 The Sacramental Ontology of Beauty

CLICK HERE FOR THE MP3Opening Lesson:“Beauty will save the world.”  Prince Myshkin (recounted by Hippolyte) in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot.One of the things that leads truly rational and open-minded people to reject pure materialism and atheism is their superficial and patently absurd explanation of the many blessings that flow into creation from her uncreated Creator. […]

20101217 Hypocrisy, News, and WikiLeaks

20101217 OrthoAnalytika Shownotes (click here for MP3) +++ Lesson: The Hypocrisy of Defending Bad Habits and Rules (St. Luke 13: 10-17)This Gospel lesson is profound. Today I would like to focus on three things that it teaches us. One: You Really Should Come to Church The first has to do with the context of the […]

The Disease, an Interview with an Ordinand, Paranormal News, and Orthodox Extremism

Orthoanalytika show: 20101007   The Disease I do not know how closely you follow the news, but there is a serious disease that is wreaking havoc throughout the world. It is destroying people, eating at them from the inside. This disease manifests itself in different ways. In fact, it probably has as many different symptoms […]