OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 27 December 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (Two Sundays before the Nativity) Colossians (3: 4-11) When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and […]
Thankfulness, More Movies, and Spiritual Ambiguity
December 20, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 20 December 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (28th Sunday after Pentecost) Gospel: St. Luke (17: 12-19) Then as He entered a certain village, there met Him ten men who were lepers, who stood afar off. And they lifted up their voices and said, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on […]
Try It before You Knock It
December 4, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 29 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (25th Sunday after Pentecost) Ephesians 4: 1-6 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring […]
Segregation, Unity, and Music
November 8, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 08 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Homily/Lesson (22nd Sunday after Pentecost) Preface: Division is killing us. Not just war. But the divisions within our hearts. Fort Hood: fruit of internal discord. Less visible with us, but still destroys those around us. Christ came to heal all divisions: both […]
Pluralism and Spiritual Warfare
November 1, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 01 November 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Well, I seem to have written over and lost the notes for this show (I usually copy the previous show notes to use a template for the next one… in this case I accidently wrote over them!). They included a homily providing […]
Stigmata, Music, Priestwives, and Redeeming Time
October 4, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 4 October 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. Mail Call: What did you mean about crucifixes, stigmata and stations of the cross? Basic point was that the Orthodox tend to focus on the transformative effects of the Resurrection. There is a trajectory, even in the East, that reveled in defeating […]
Believing in Vain, Movies, Vestigial Communitarianism
August 31, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 30 August 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 St. Matthew 19: 16-26 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word […]
Principles and Nostalgia
August 25, 2009 By
OrthoAnalyika Shownotes: 23 August 2009 Note: be sure to subscribe to the podcast. 1 Corinthians 9: 2-12; St. Matthew 18: 23-35 If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord. My defense to those who examine me is this: […]
Should Clergy Talk about Politics from the Pulpit
August 3, 2008 By
The Johnson Amendment of 1954 changed the IRS code so that churches that support or oppose candidates for public office would lose their non-profit status. This past Sunday, a group of pastors challenged this by using Scripture to analyze the campaign positions of Senators McCain and Obama. They did this hoping to challenge the constitutionality […]
Taking Responsibility for Falling to Temptations
July 24, 2008 By
The American heritage is one of a strong work ethic and a deep sense of personal responsibility. These individual traits, together with civic engagement, are the cultural foundations of American prosperity. Originally, these traits sprang forth naturally from America’s Judeo-Christian roots. Max Weber and De Tocqueville both warned what would happen if these individual traits […]
