A New Blog in an Old Space; Also, Washing Dishes Like A True Heroine

Well, it’s obvious that this blog in its present format has been more or less squeezed out of my life. I’ve become actually busy, something I thought would never happen to someone like me.
Normally what would happen at this point is that I’d shut the blog down and then months from now when I became [...]

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Good News

My fellow Orthodox Christians will take joy in this news: yesterday my husband and son and I were baptized and chrismated into the Holy Orthodox Church, and today we took our first communion and celebrated the betrothal service. So now we are bound together by a way of being that transcends time and space and [...]

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Reading of Late (With Added Excerpts of Poetry)

As I came by to maybe put up a dilettante post about what I’ve been reading lately (it’s been a reading, not a writing time) I noticed that I have four comments I’d not seen. Ah, you lurky readers, you – there you are!
Well, as you all know, I do enjoy comments. And the people who [...]

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The Riots in Greece

All Christians are gullible – it has to be striven against. This is something that I observered long ago.
I wonder if Orthodox societies are particularly vulnerable to the lie of Communism/Socialism. Or is it, rather, Societies that try to blend Orthodox and Western thought that are so at risk?
A few years ago I concluded that [...]

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