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Follower of Jesus. Love my wife and kids. Conspirator for nonviolence. Guns into garden tools. Radical grace. Orthodox Inquirer.
Joined January 2010
Happy New Year! 2025 was hard for me both professionally and with my health. Perhaps the hardest of my life, but they were times that gave me no place to turn but to God. And for that, I'm grateful for the hard times. Excited for 2026.
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"Peace is not the absence of problems, but the presence of God in the midst of problems." - Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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In Gaza, a Christian Palestinian girl stands for daily prayers on day 815.
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Watching "Bugonia", and why do I get the feeling that both extremes will see this and think it's only talking about the other? Like only one side is being driven to mental illness through their internet echo chambers and fearmongering.
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I had someone tell me that "Stand By Me" is a millennial movie because they were alive when it came out. That isn't how it works.
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The Holy Innocents were martyred because they resembled our Lord. May we likewise bear such witness.
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And for Drake Maye.
I'm in the championship of my fantasy football league, and very grateful I have Derrick Henry right now.
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Want a great morning? Wake up. Pray. Make coffee. Go to Divine Liturgy.
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I'm in the championship of my fantasy football league, and very grateful I have Derrick Henry right now.
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Aside from extremely dangerous weather conditions, I cannot fathom why any church would ever cancel services on a Sunday.
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society where misogynists and misandrists just want to be angry about every stiff breeze.
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I have now seen a man complaining about "It's A Wonderful Life" because Mary kept George from his life traveling the world, and a woman complaining that Mary's "dark timeline" is when she's a single librarian. Both arguments miss the point of the movie and are the result of a
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On the third day after the Nativity of the Lord, the Orthodox Church celebrates Saint Stephen the Archdeacon, the first martyr of Christianity. Just as the Infant Jesus was persecuted by Herod, filled with hatred and envy, Stephen was stoned to death by the enemies of Truth
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The Christmas message of the Orthodox Archbishop of Kenya, quoting the Prophet Isaiah and Saint Seraphim Rose. (HT: @Yared_TheGuy )
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