There’s this thing out there that I only became aware of this year, called Eastern Christian New Media Awards (that is “new,” not “news” — I checked), wherein people nominate their favorite blogs in such things as Funniest Blogs, Best Theology Blog, and Best Domestic Blog — all, of course, from the viewpoint of an [...]
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My Goodness!!
Posted in Church Life, Just for Yuks, Orthodox Christianity, domestic domovaya on June 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yep, It’s Great Lent
Posted in Church Life, Orthodox Christianity, spiritual warfare on March 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Somebody on one of my favorite lists remarked that it was Great Lent, which prompted a flurry of similar posts. For those who don’t get the concept of Great Lent — so called to distinguish it from the lesser fasting seasons of the Orthodox Church — this is when you’re supposed to struggle with those [...]
Requesting Prayers…
Posted in Church Life on February 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
…for Father Count’s little daughter Ana. She’s had a high-grade fever, off and on, for about three weeks now — she gets sick, her temperature spikes, they give her an antibiotic, it settles down, then, just when they think she’s doing better, it shoots back up again. (We’re talking 104F, 40C.) Today they called Father [...]
Father Count — Still Counting
Posted in Church Life, My Life in Christ, Orthodox Christianity on December 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Some weeks ago, I wrote about an unsettling encounter I had with my priest. Time to report back that although we didn’t exactly “have it out” — that’s not Fr. Count’s style — he did note that ecumenical activity is “economia, pushed to its very limit.” So at least he’s aware that this isn’t something [...]
The Concert
Posted in Church Life, Music, spiritual warfare on November 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of my all-time favorites — and today, an answer to prayer.
*****
When the house lights dimmed and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her seat and discovered that her child was missing. Suddenly, the curtains parted and spotlights focused on the impressive Steinway on stage. To her horror, the mother saw [...]
Update on Father Count
Posted in Church Life, People on October 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Good news today: “Father Count” has cleared the last hurdle to become a U. S. citizen! The bad news (there’s always bad news, right?) is that he won’t get to vote in this election, but he’s been told that he will be sworn in as a citizen on November 12.
There’s a story here. This poor [...]
Jordanville Recap
Posted in Church Life, Music, Orthodox Christianity, spiritual warfare on September 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have been awake since midnight, and up since 2:30. It’s now 4:12 am. I am convinced that the blogosphere was invented by little old ladies with insomnia, and it got hijacked by everyone else.
Jordanville. It was strange this year. I do think that the sense of strangeness stemmed from the loss of [...]
Six Weeks
Posted in Church Life on August 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hard to believe that I have been back from Jordanville for six weeks, now. Where have I been? Not on my computer at home, that’s for sure.
Well — that’s not strictly speaking true. I do get on it for about two hours on Saturday mornings so I can put together Choir Cues, which I think [...]
Off to J-ville
Posted in Church Life, Music, Orthodox Christianity on July 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Boy, it has been awhile since I last posted.
Tomorrow I leave for Jordanville, NY, which many of you who read this know is the site of the Summer School of Liturgical Music. I get some interesting reactions when I tell people I’m attending a school for choir directors; I guess the “heathen-jellies” (evangelicals) have so [...]
How It All Began
Posted in Church Life, Falling Apart at the Seams, My Life in Christ, spiritual warfare on June 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been meaning to write about this for some time, and the fortieth anniversary of its beginning seems as good a place as any to start.
1968. The height of the protests against the Vietnam War. For those of us who had “people” over there, children, or brothers and sisters, or fiances or spouses, those protests [...]
