From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary: hol·i·day Pronunciation: ‘hä-l&-”dA, British usually ‘hä-l&-dE Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hAligdæg, from hAlig holy + dæg day 1 : HOLY DAY So I looked up “Holy Day” Main Entry: holy day Function: noun : a day set aside for special religious observance What does any of [...]
I’ve been re-reading John Oliver’s Touching Heaven about his experience as a pilgrim/worker at Valaam. The first time I read it like a starving man eats a meal, with little attention to the subtleties of flavor and texture. Now I’m reading it like a gourmand, appreciating each delicate morsel for its unique flavor and texture. [...]
Archimandrite Meltios Webber has a fantastic article in the recent issue of Divine Ascent, the journal of the Monastery of St. John the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco. His article is entitled “The Mind, the Heart, and the Way of Salvation.” It is one of the best introductory articles on Orthodoxy I have ever [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about self-reliant living. More specifically my dream of moving to a plot of land with some forest and perhaps a meadow and a creek and starting from scratch. Or nearly so. If I were alone I wouldn’t even want a house. I would build a house out of the [...]
A few weeks ago my wife said that she and my daughter would start coming to Church with my son and me. Inside I was doing cartwheels. Now the back story: Lainey (wife) and Sophie (daugheter, aged have been going to Lainey’s Baptist Church. Paul (aged 2) has been coming to St. Anne with me. [...]
Two months since my lost post. I really wanted to better than that. I still do. I am going to relaly try this time. At the Mission Board Meeting today we approved apending $4000 from the Outreach fund. It felt incredible to be able to give like that. Still no job, although I have high [...]