On May 21 the Eastern Church celebrates the memory of my nominee for “Most Influential Christian”: Emperor Constantine the Great (272-337) Why, you may ask, is the Roman Emperor venerated as a saint? This guy who had the audacity to move the capital away from Rome, humbly renaming the city after himself? This guy who set […]
Sex Addict Finds Recovery in Christ: St. Mary of Egypt
Little Girl Lost Sometimes being a bit rebellious tips over into deeper trouble. A 12-year-old girl, Mary, just on the cusp of young womanhood, ran away. This was not the tantrum that leads a kid to hide in the woods through dinner to punish her parents. Mary found her way to the big city. She fell […]
Sources of the Faith We Love: St Athanasius and St Cyril
We American Christians have a funny way of acting like we invented the faith. Or maybe it fell out, like an old letter, from between the pages our Bibles. We don’t know what we owe to people like St Athanasius and St Cyril. If we are aware that Christianity has a past, we often see it […]
St Basil the Great
It is New Year’s Day. Most of us are celebrating with a quiet day off. But there are two holy days today that I’m guessing most of my readers are not giving too much attention to. The first is “The Circumcision of Jesus.” It is the eighth day of Christmas, and the eighth day is […]
Director’s Journal: Character Notes
As I said yesterday, at the fourth rehearsal of my church’s production of my new Christmas Play, I decided to be more directive in my directing. In this or any church play there are people who do not aspire to be actors. They just got drafted. Their whole aim might be to stand in the right place and […]
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