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 […]
Zombies, Demons, and the Victory of Love
November 24, 2010 By
Shownotes for Thanksgiving, 2010 Lesson: Ephesians 4: 1-6 St. Luke 8: 26-39 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in […]
An Orthodox Christian Statement on Poverty
October 17, 2010 By
Orthodoxy and Poverty We are all called to work, and we are all called to prayer and almsgiving for the poor (just as we are all called to exhibit every virtue, regardless of “status”). “There are two moral motives of labour: work to sustain oneself without being a burden for others and work to give […]
Orthodoxy – The Stream between the Extremes
October 5, 2010 By
[This talk was given as part of Diversity Week at the University of Rhode Island. Chaplains of different faiths gave talks on this same theme.] IntroductionThe main point of my remarks today is this: people make a huge and tragic mistake when they see faith – in this case, Orthodox Christianity – as a “religion” […]
ET and Christianity – a brief literature review
September 26, 2010 By
Orthoanalytika show: 26 September 2010 Lesson on the Cross. The Cross is more than a mythical symbol. +++ News: UFO Expert, Biblical Scholar, and Christian Michael Heiser offers his commentary on the 9/27 UFO Press Conference at the National Press Club. Retired Air Force officers and airmen sharedtheirencounters with UFO’s that occurred at sensitive […]
Feasting and an Interview with Demetra about Exercise
August 29, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika show: 29 August 2010 A Lesson on the Wedding Feast (St. Matthew 22: 1-14) Two of our parish families have just celebrated weddings. Others are preparing for their own. If you do not remember the various emotions- joys and disappointments – that such an event brings with it, then I am sure they will […]
UOC and UOL: Dedicated to Our Youth
August 15, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 15 August 2010 Homily: 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11; St. Matthew 19: 16-26 Today I would like to offer three observations that help us draw out the meaning of Christ’s words; “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom […]
The Foolishness of Humility, Leaving Food for the Dead, and an Interview on Monasticism in New England
July 18, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 18 July 2010 EPISTLE: 1 Corinthians 1:10-18. Listen to how St. Paul begins today’s lesson; “Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the […]
Freedom, Independence Day, and Interview on the Holodomor
July 4, 2010 By
OrthoAnalyika Show: 04 July 2010 Freedom! [The history of it in our community. Ukrainian freedom (especially the Cossacks). American freedom (the minutemen, the founders).] Cossacks and the Minutemen were willing to work and even fight to defend their freedom from political tyranny. But there is an even more important kind of freedom than this that […]
Screwtape Letters, Class 7 (chapters 22-31)
May 5, 2010 By
CS Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, Class 7 (Final Class)Chapters 22-31 Chapter 22Why is Wormwood sickened by the woman the patient has fallen in love with? Why do pleasures need to be twisted before they are of use to the demons? What is the difference between noise, music, & silence? Chapter 23What does the modern version […]
