Month: November 2007

This is what the government of (Northern) Sudan sent to pick up the teacher who named the class teddy bear ‘Muhammed.’  While every prime time in America Christianity is blasphemed, the government in Khartoum can hardly handle something this innocuous. If you want to know what has happened in Sudan, imagine the whole Southern part […]

So asks the Orthodox bishop, Kallistos Ware. In his work The Inner Kingdom, he dares to ask the question. Ware is not a squishy theologian. He is thoroughly traditional and Orthodox in all points. But he is expressing a true and I think orthodox hope. He mentions that St. Gregory of Nyssa also had such […]

So many of our Mainline denominations are becoming pathetic shells of irrelevance and heretical teaching. There have been a variety of schisms and people in exodus for at least three decades, my Episcopal Church being a case study in hemorrhaging and splintering. There are basically two choices, Exodus or Exile. To exodus is to leave […]

I was invited to interview with a small but vibrant church outside of town.  My wife and I were greeted to at least a hundred folks for a picnic.  We thought they were there to see us, but it was really a ‘going away party’ for most of the parish. They were a parish meeting […]