Oh, you’re a lifelong student? What field of study? “I still love theology But not as much as God, you see But I still love theology Always and forever. Always and forever.”

Oh, also, one my home appliances sounds like this song.

I didn't think it possible, but in an astounding feat of pop music genius, U2 managed to add two new musical themes to the end of Pride (In The Name Of Love) on their Songs of Surrender album. Check it out! youtu.be/thmcVMobt0s

My most recent Orthodox-styled peeve was when, in our local community Christmas concert, while rehearsing & performing Christmas Day by Gustav Holst, one of the tenors behind me kept singing “Christ *was* born,” & there wasn’t enough time to explain why it’s more correct to say “Christ *is* born.” 🙄

Stomach illness at Christmas—that; that is my *least* favorite thing.

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(It’s a secret.)

Are we seeing a new denominationalism being hashed out on the internet? It certainly seems like it. Although I suppose it’s also possible that my own interests and obsessions are just being triggered for algorithmic rage-bait. Thoughts?

That time when Cyril of Alexandria came out an Evagrian universalist open.substack.com/pub/patristi...

I am a Christian because of the love of God. “If we have died with him, we shall also live with him; if we endure, we shall also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself.” 2 Tim. 2:11-13 RSV

Evil is not a living substance, but a deviation of mind and soul from the path of true virtue. — St Ambrose of Milan

TIL that Thomas Merton and Karl Barth both died on the same date in 1968.

I hate Winter.

Anyone who says ‘I love God’ and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother. — (1 Jn. 4:20-21)

I can’t believe I’m just now learning about www.biblindex.org. What a great resource!

“Never forget God.”

My annual replay and reshare of this video series by my buddy @happyguerilla.bsky.social. Three cheers for pointing out the patently mystical “meaning” of Christmas. :-)

Across the cold chains of the centuries, I feel the warmth of Thy breath, I feel Thy blood pulsing in my veins. Part of time has already gone, but now Thou art the present.

Why is it that on a Feast Day the whole of nature mysteriously smiles? Why is it that then a heavenly gladness fills our hearts; a gladness far beyond that of earth and the very air in church and in the altar becomes luminous?

Glory to Thee for calling me into being Glory to Thee, showing me the beauty of the universe Glory to Thee, spreading out before me heaven and earth Like the pages in a book of eternal wisdom

"Glory to You, on my knees I kiss the traces of your unseen hand."

TFW you are too lazy to correct typos on each Wikipedia article relevant to your search.

It may not be enough to say, "Read widely, read often, and read well," in an environment permeated with byte-sized, short-form media culture.

In Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, The Enchanted Garden has the Thank You Tree, to which the citizens of the Neighborhood attach thank you notes. They are very enchanted by the Thank You Tree—it represents everything good and beautiful. I think this is a great Eucharistic parable of Paradise.

"You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means."

let me be clear- AI is plagiarism, pure and simple. it invents nothing. it simply assembles what already exists somewhere in a bastardizing fashion. lazy people use AI because they can't write or think for themselves. AI is the hallmark of the indolent and the playground of the ignorant.

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Heard on a podcast, social media is founded on the bare minimum of what our actual value, namely our economic value to social media companies. This makes it obvious that our social media understates who we are.

The Hypothesis of the Gospels www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11...

I still have a headache.

1 Corinthians 1-4

I have a gnarly headache. Lord, have mercy.

My aim in joining the Orthodox Church was never to separate myself from anyone else. In Orthodoxy I found the Communion of Saints and the Church tradition I agreed with most, a historic path to salvation I longed to imitate and participate in.

Thinking is important. It's why I like to write. Have we given up on thinking?

In the words "artificial intelligence," "artificial" is the operative modifier.

This plain American Air Force veteran who grew up where I live now, in Midwest USA, who used to go to the parish I attend years ago, was stationed to guard "a dump" — Wadi El Natrun. Just absolutely wild. And he thought to tell me about it. Unbelievable.

Like, I mean, one is led to think, what I wouldn't give to visit Wadi Natrun — modern day Scetis, one of the original areas where the desert fathers settled. I would even go there just to realize it's a dump. Like, what? Really? How holy that place must be!

One story that I will never forget is how, several years ago at my retail job, a guy I was working with casually mentioned one night that he had been stationed at Wadi Natrun with the Air Force. It was a really involved story, but I'll never forget how he said, "What a dump that place was."

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Looking at that video of the patriarchs et al. confessing the Nicene Creed at the site of St. Neophytos Basilica in Iznik (Ancient Nicaea), such a sight surely fills me with many thoughts and emotions — one of which is the profound significance of pilgrimage and place that may obtain in my religion.

Not me sitting here wondering if I should put on classical music, The Beatles Anthology, or watch that video of the bishops saying the Nicene creed again, and then wondering how many times I would have to watch it to be proud, humbled, and brought to tears in a mystic moment.

November 28th, 2025 — The day history will remember as the day when the Pope of Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople as well as clergy representing Jerusalem, Alexandria and Antioch publicly professed the Nicene creed on the 1700th anniversary of the council of Nicaea, without the filioque.

Happy thANGSTgiving to those who keep the punk feast.

Why is Duolingo my passive aggressive cousin?

I used to be embarrassed of my curiosity about Origen until I learned how many saints respected him and considered him their teacher.

Your annual reminder that HAH Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew knows how to set a fine example with the positive energy we need in today’s world.