Blogging during Advent
Each year, for the last five years, Fr. John Peck runs the 30/40 Days Pastoral Blogging Challenge from his blog The Preachers Institute. The idea is simple, tho...
Category: Blog
USCIRF Helps Launch International Parliamentary Coalition to Advance Religious Freedom
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the face of escalating violations worldwide of religious freedom, an initiative that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freed...
Patriarch Daniel Send Greetings for 90th Anniversary
No. 11.620/2014 Bucharest, November 5, 2014 His Eminence Archbishop Nicolae Archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas, Very Rev. Fr. Peter...
The things we choose to be concerned about
Recently Fr. Robert Arida, Rector and Dean at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Boston, wrote an article for the Wonder blog that has since been taken down. I did not ...
New Superintendent for the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home
BOSTON – Friday, November 7, 2014 — Governor Deval Patrick swore in Cheryl Poppe as superintendent of the Chelsea Soldiers’ Home, making her the first wom...
Britain’s Prince Charles urges religious freedom, tolerance
(CNN) — Britain’s Prince Charles has called on governments around the world to do more to ensure religious freedom and urged religious leaders to pr...
Wanted: Missionaries in Alaska
The Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC) was honored by a visit from His Grace Bishop David of Sitka and Alaska during the week of October 27-31. The staff ...
Southbridge in the Civil War – Andersonville Prison
Andersonville Prison is synonymous with the horrors of the Civil War. Some 13,000 Union prisoners died while being held in some of the worst conditions of the ...
What Pulls Us
The Gospel of Luke 8:26-39 At that time, as Jesus arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, there met him a man from the city who had demons; for a long time he ...
Mazel Tov ~ Reflections from A Bar Mitzvah
If you are like me, you have only heard or read about the Jewish custom of Bar Mitzvah. I had an intellectual knowledge of what it was all about –...