The Sunday of Orthodoxy [On this, the First Sunday of Great Lent…anathema!… we are reminded] It takes courage to be a Christian. Today we remember our religious heritage – the way that the Gospel of Christ, the unchanging Truth of Orthodoxy, has been preserved and taught throughout the ages. Today we remember and honor […]
20120224 Seeds, News, and Judgement
February 25, 2012 By
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: The Last Judgment
February 21, 2012 By
The Sunday of the Last Judgement St. Matthew 25:31-46; 1 Corinthians 8:8-9:2 If you break the rules long enough, eventually you are going to suffer. Or, put another way, if you act stupid long enough, it will eventually catch up with you. Examples: Bad Budgeting. If people insist on spending more than they make long enough, they will […]
Homily: Eating Pig Pods – and loving it
February 12, 2012 By
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 – Publican and Pharisee
February 5, 2012 By
All of creation is pregnant with potential – less full of lifeless atoms or particles than of seeds just waiting to be brought forth into fruition. And here I speak not just of literal seeds (although it is almost time to start working with those and getting them ready for transfer into the garden come […]
20120206 A Pregnant Creation, Mail Call, and Islam
February 4, 2012 By
Podcast Notes Homily on Zacchaeus et al. (due to the delay in recording, this was bumped by a Homily on the Publican and the Pharisee) Mail Bag What should I do if there are no regular Orthodox services in my area? What are the most healthy expressions of sexuality? (note on recent decision to ban […]
Homily – Zachaeus Sunday
February 1, 2012 By
Run the Experiment in Your Life! (they did – and look at them!) Zacchaeus Sunday, the Commemoration of St. Peter’s Chains, and the Eve of St. Anthony the Great. Gospel: St. Luke 19:1-10 Epistle: Acts 12:1-11 What if we lived as if we believed all this was true? What if we stopped hedging our bets and gave […]
20120120 Theophany, Local News, and a Review of History
January 22, 2012 By
Podcast Notes: Talk a little about Theophany. Before the news… A word from a sponsor (satire) – Guido-vich and Mak-mech-enko Revenue Consultants.With the new immigration comes new opportunity. The first immigration brought hard work and selfless dedication to building communities and parishes. The second immigration brought a faith that had been forged by circumstances too difficult […]
Homily – Repent… and change the world
January 16, 2012 By
The Sunday before Theophany; 2 Timothy 4:5-8, St. Mark 1:1-8 This is the Sunday before Theophany, when we remember St. John and his ministry, and how he prepared the world for the God-man Jesus Christ through his ministry of repentance. History of Saint John. Saint John the Baptist was the son of Zachariah and Elizabeth […]
20120113 Spirituality of Christmas and Theophany
January 15, 2012 By
In this (welcome back) edition, we go back to the old format; starting with a reflection, covering a few news stories and satirical advertisements and the like, then finishing with the Volya (Freedom) segment that treats a topic of interest in some detail. But before we begin, I reckon that I owe you an explanation: […]
