Where have I Been?
This has just been a crazy week. I hope this week is a little less crazy but so far not the case. I am up at 5am to head to the radio station for 7am to do the ...
Author: Fr. Peter
Fidel Castro considers Metropolitan Kirill his ally in opposing
Havana, October 23, Interfax – The former Cuban leader Fidel Castro stated that Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relatio...
Displaced Families Facing Harsh Winter
Tskvarichamia, Georgia — The leaves have already changed in Tskvarichamia, a mountain hamlet about 15 miles above Tbilisi. For the 16 families taking shelter in...
The passing of the U.S. Orthodox Church as an ‘ethnic club’ is under way
These were the sad, sobering conversations that priests have when no one else is listening. Father John Peck kept hearing other priests pour out their frustrati...
Study Finds More Orthodox Converts
By Nicole Neroulias, Religion News Service A new study of Orthodox Christians in America has found a larger-than-expected number of converts, mostly from Roman ...
Worker Priests
Several weeks ago Huw had a post on his blog about Tent Maker Clergy. I was going to comment and then it got lost in all of the other posts I was working on. So...
Alternative Worship
Last night we celebrated the feast of St. James with the Liturgy of St James. A beautiful Liturgy and I am sorry we do not use this one more often then the one ...
Blogging Bishop
I have just learned that His Grace Bishop Savas of Troas, who i s the Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in America is blogging. He is presently on sa...
Orthodox New Media Conference
To all those of you reading this who blog or podcast, Fr Greg and I are thinking of putting together an Orthodox New Media Conference late summer or early fall ...
Everything Must Change Part 2
Well the response was great to the last post, 15 comments so far and the discussion continues. I would like to go out a limb, okay that is usually where I am an...