Study Breaks Stereotypes of Orthodox Christians

Study Breaks Stereotypes of Orthodox Christians Interesting story. Something for all of us to read and think about. I question a couple of the results, and wonder about their statistical techniques – like their sampling methodology, and how they analyzed the data. Is this a reliable and valid study? I don’t know. But it puts [...]

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Good News From FoxNews!

You know, sometimes … sometimes … FoxNews has some really good stuff on!! Today was an example. There is a NJ stay-at-home Mom who blogs and has become a target for Yemen! The country over in the MidEast. They really want to kill her. Because she is consistently blogging about Yemen’s mistreatment of journalsts, She [...]

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Little Cat Feet And the 40 Pound Cat!

Magnus the Magnifi-cat is very interesting. He silently pads around the house – except when I haven’t clipped his pack toenails and he “clicks” on the wood floors – rather amusing, actually. He thinks he is invisible – as most cats do – and to all intents and purposes he is in the dark of [...]

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The Day From Hades!! And Then Life is Good at The Pond!

It was Monday. We used to refer to Mondays as “Blue Monday” when I worked for the State of GA – the day we had to drag ourselves back to work after the weekend. I was feeling better after a weekend spent mostly in my Laz-E-Boy taking Tylenol and whimpering when the Ol’ Curmudgeon was [...]

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Reflection by a Friend

This was a reflection posted on an e-list over a year ago by a very dear friend. I think it is “old” enough from an electronic point of view to publish here. Besides, she gave permission for it to be posted on various lists and other places. This morning as I was up on the [...]

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New First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

The last e-mail I opened last night before toddling off to bed was from our Church – and my heart just sang! Archbishop Hilarion has been elected the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. If you check back a few (well, more than a few) posts, you will find the one [...]

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Mother’s Day – Matriarch’s Day

I’m always sad on Mother’s Day – because I miss my Mother. I remember on one of the Feasts of the Theotokos, I believe it was the Annunciation, Fr. John was giving his Homily and was talking about how the Theotokos, as the Mother of Christ, was the epitome of Mothers. It was about 3 [...]

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Christ is Risen – Russian Orthodox Song

Not as joyous and beauteous as the Serbian one below, but still just lovely – I particularly am interested in the Icon of the “double” Resurrection. I’ve never seen one like it before, and I’d love to know more about it. Wish the pictures in the slideshow were less blurry and more in focus. But [...]

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Bright Week

The week following Pascha the altar doors remain open, fasting is not permitted and the Greek Orthodox remain standing at services until Pentecost. The week is termed Renewal (Greek) or Bright Week (Russian) by the Church. The week concludes with a special canon of the Theotokos, the Life-giving Fountain and Liturgy. It is a tradition [...]

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Christ is Risen!!

Indeed, He is Risen!! Today is Pascha! Eastern Orthodox Easter!! I’m so embedded in Orthodoxy now, that I was rather shocked when i turned on the TV this morning to FOX News, and no one said Christ is Risen! How can the world not know that Christ is Risen?! How can we not know that [...]

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The Akathist to the Holy Virgin -

Last week-end was the week-end of the Akathist of the Theotokos. Here it is from the website of the late Bishop Alexander: THE AKATHIST HYMN is one of the most well-loved services of devotion in the Orthodox Church. Although there is some debate concerning the particulars of its authorship, many scholars agree with the pious [...]

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The Atlanta Allergy Clinic

Thank goodness for the Atlanta Allergy Clinic!! During “the pollen season” they publish on their website the daily pollen count. They also give the “norms” so that you know where the pollen count is compared to those norms. Let me show you April 2008. (It will show you May when the months change over.) There [...]

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Later – Gater

This is a busy period in my life, and posts will be sparse for a while. To my faithful readers, I apologise. I’m probably going to be down to either 1 original post a week and 1 meme or 2 or 3 memes. Well, that’s life in the pickle factory at the moment. Don’t say [...]

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The Wisdom of Frank Pittman, MD -

When I was in nursing school, I was fortnate enough to meet and get to know Frank Pittman, MD. He went on to become a nationally and internationally known psychiatrist and an expert in family therapy. I’ve followed his career with interest, and read all his books. I’ve missed some of  his articles, sad to [...]

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The Atlanta Tornado – March 2008

As an EF-2 tornado swept across downtown Atlanta, one local photographer snapped the shot of a lifetime. Shane Durrance was on top of his condominium off Howell Mill Road when he saw the potential for a great photo of the downtown area. He took the photo just as 11Alive’s Paul Ossmann was talking about tornado [...]

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Memory Eternal! Memory Eternal! Memory Eternal!

Today, 1 / 13 March 2008, our beloved Metropolitan Laurus fell asleep in the Lord. May his Memory Be Eternal! With the souls of the righteous dead give rest, O Saviour, to the soul of thy servant, preserving it unto the life of blessedness which is with thee, O thou who lovest mankind. In the [...]

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KOSOVO: A Crying Shame

Kosovo: A Crying Shame Tuesday, February 26 2008 @ 01:05 CST Contributed by: Shelley Rubin Once again the United States has sold out the good people and rewarded the bad. I am speaking of the recognition of Kosovo as an independent state by our government. As a bit of background information, the Jewish Defense League [...]

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Explaining the Balkans – Serbia and Kosovo

Finally! A writer has put the Balkans, or at least Serbia and Kosovo, into a perspective that the average American can understand without a PhD in Balkan history!! Julia Gorin in FrontPage Magazine has this wonderful paragraph in a longer, excellent article: [...] “To put this in perspective, with advance apologies to any offended ethnic [...]

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A Personal Synaxarion

Your first response probably is, What is a Synaxarion?? In Greek, Synaxis means a meeting or a conference. A Synaxarion can be either a simple listing of people or a detailed Who’s Who with biographies and references. In the Orthodox Church, among the Russian groups, the most commonly used Synaxarion is that of St. Dimitri [...]

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Intelligence and Personality

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