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Director of St Luke’s Resigns
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M. Stankovich
Fr. Andrei, Indeed He is Risen! I was not ignoring you, but I am reluctant to share personal...
Tim R. Mortiss
I suddenly wondered: do one’s views of Muskovy have any relation to what side of the Mason-Dixon...
Michael Bauman
Fr. John, I totally agree with your last statement that Met. Philip will go down in history as one of...
Stan Poulos
Fr. John, I appreciate your love for + Philip. He has done much good and has done a nice job of reaching...
George Michalopulos
Stan, I see that you continue to evade my very simple questions. Specifically, how many...
Stan Poulos
George, Now you reveal your true colors. You too are a Russophile and mimic + Jonah himself. The ROC is...
George Michalopulos
Stan, if I hear one more time how the ROC is the “most corrupt” Orthodox Church,...
Michael Bauman
Stan on one hand you claim we Antiochians are under the thumb of “foreign” bishops and on...
Archpriest John W. Morris
I have stopped making many comments on this blog because I am tired of reading about all...
H pylori
One cause of ulcers is Helicobacter pylori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H elicobacter_pylori...
sue
Stan, Your editorial merely indicts the Synod that elected Met. Jonah. While I do not agree with your assessment,...
sue
Carl, My sundial is still running! Do you know these men personally?
Stan Poulos
George, You can have Moscow. The ROC is probably the most corrupt Orthodox Church in the world. This is...
George Michalopulos
Stan, I very much appreciate your critique and am in agreement with parts of it. But how can you...
Stan Poulos
George & Fr. Webster, Autonomy means nothing. With + Philip, he has been operating autonomously since...
Archpriest Alexander F. C. Webster, PhD
Re the idiotic comment: “I seriously believe + Jonah was psychlogically...
George Michalopulos
First, I do agree with you about foreign bishops controlling American territory in the ham-fisted...
Archpriest Andrei Alexiev
Christ is Risen! George, My current spiritual father,Fr.Stavros,is a Greek American,who...
Stan Poulos
Seraphim98, …Because “foreign bishops have no authority outside their own territory”...
Archpriest Andrei Alexiev
Christ is Risen! Dr.Stankovich, Thank you for the recommedations.I know Charlie LeDuff from...
colette
Wow. This is really carefully and respectfully written. You hit the complicated point we all observed but...
Serpahim98
It puzzles me why people think the OCA surrendering it’s tomos voluntarily as part of an effort to...
nit picker
M. Stankovich, Thank you for taking the time to respond to my comments. I looked again at the original...
Paul Ford
There never was a rapist priest, as far as I know from witnesses. That is also the account that I received...
M. Stankovich
nit picker, I apparently missed your response here and, dude, you have seriously mischaracterized my...
Even Jon Stewart Gets It
(42)
T.R.
Taxation is theft.
Michael Bauman
Fr. Pat: Lipstick on a pig?
Patrick Henry Reardon
With a fine rhetorical flourish, Dan asks, “Some IRS agents go rouge and it’s a...
Bill Christensen
He is a comedian. It is hilarious. Don’t you get it. Easy does it. It. This too shall pass.
geo michalopulos
Nate, you have no idea. The Conservatives have been hated vituperatively since Goldwater 64. I know,...
Michael Bauman
The fact is that as vulgar as modern politics is, it is more civilized than at many times in the past....
Gregg Gerasimon
Thank you for posting this. The more I watch these Metropolitan Jonah talks, the more I believe that...
Nate Trost
You presented a proposition that 98% of vulgar hateful political speech comes from “the Left”,...
Guy Westover
WONDERFUL! What else can one say? Oh, yeah. Pray for them and offer them some financial support....
George Michalopulos
OK, lemme get this straight, even with Google alone Palin-hatred eclipses Hillary-hatred by 2:1....
Fr. Hans Jacobse
It’s always nice to read comments from someone who realizes that history did not begin on the...
Nate Trost
You sound amusingly like a self-righteously offended character from the New Testament at the moment....
Nate Trost
Google search: “Hilary Clinton (extremely vulgar obscenity)”: About 319,000 results Google...
L
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pre sident-obama%E2%80%99s-use-of- teabagger-term-provokes-media- debate/
George Michalopulos
Thank you for pointing that out Ivan. I never knew what a “Tea Bagger” was until last...
George Michalopulos
Good point. When all is said and done however the Left uses more vulgarity and hatred than the...
CQ
Tornados struck hard in Oklahoma. People died, homes and entire communities destroyed. Lord have mercy!
wow! suggests
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Lola J. Lee Beno
Just out of curiosity, how would you label women who are not in monogamously-committed...
Tim R. Mortiss
A worthy point to be made now and then, though it is no longer much understood, alas. There’s...
Archpriest John W. Morris
Actually, the constitution does exempt religious institutions from taxation. In the case of...
Michael Kinsey
Only sodomites, and gommorhites demand submissiveness from others.
Michael Kinsey
All well, arguements over whose better, tweedledumb or tweedledumber. I will mention a wieghter matter...
one
Leftists are extremely vulgar and not to be confused with liberals—let’s identify them correctly. A...
Nate Trost
Considering you personally used the term “the slut vote” in an essay, and on another occasion...
Diversity is Strength!
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Basil
Michael, I’m sure there would be some Muslims who would do so, although they would be despised by their...
Basil
By that logic, George, you are a Greek and not American! The man’s passport, if he had one, would be...
Basil
Their “piece of dirt” is the whole earth, Brigel. Read about Maududi and Qutb, the intellectual...
Michael Bauman
Thank you, Pere. And you are correct concerning the Copts. Whatever the Christological differences...
Michael Bauman
Brigel, comparing the Islamic-Jewish conflict with the American Revolution is historically inaccurate....
Michael Bauman
Brigel, I’d like to know what evidence you have that Muslim’s don’t hate us...
Nate Trost
I sense a certain lack of consistency here. You seem to feel entitled to brand subsets of Muslims as wild...
Patrick Henry Reardon
Brigel writes: “Muslims don’t hate us. Give them back their piece of dirt, and this whole...
lexcaritas
Antonia, do you know why the Chechens converted? A matter of free choice . . . or . . . just wondering as...
Pere LaChaise
Indeed, He is risen! O death, where is thy sting? Michael, your comment helps clear the...
Pere LaChaise
No, it doesn’t make them necessarily Muslim as Christians were typically impressed into the...
George Michalopulos
P.S. most people in Latin America are extremely light-complected. Their majority stock is...
George Michalopulos
On the contrary. I for one don’t believe tha Muslims, like all human beings, do NOT have...
Pere LaChaise
Mr. Michalopoulos, you should watch the film “Children of Men” based on the PD James novel,...
George Michalopulos
If that’s true, then I stand corrected. However I would like to see some confirmation from...
nit picker
Very true. I am glad you make that distinction. It is an important one.
Antonia
Correction: Chechens were Orthodox Christian; however, the tribes converted to Islam during the 17th-19th...
Nate Trost
It is rather hard to reconcile these two statements of yours: They are a barbarous and savage people of no...
Michael Bauman
Ivan, well said, except as I noted above if we are to include Muslims, they would have to genuinely...
Michael Bauman
Brigel, I think you need to read some more history and learn more of Islam. You are assuming that...
George Michalopulos
“Manages the outbreak of violence.” Hmmm, is that akin to saying that the girl...
Ivan Vasiliev
George, I must have deleted before I posted. But I’ll try again. At the risk of sounding like a...
George Michalopulos
I forgot to mention, the man in the picture is not “British.” He is the son of...
George Michalopulos
The difference is that English in the international language. The Greeks put everything up in...
George Michalopulos
Pere, you will notice that I did not heap obloquy on “North Caucasians,” but upon...
Stinkbomb II
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Jeffery Erickson
Yo, Here is the article and picture the Chancellor fishing. He was in Alaska for the graduation...
Yo
Dear Jeffrey, I went to the OCA website and could not find the article you were talking about. Could you provide...
Amazed in the Midwest
Maybe some of you saw the OCA website “report” on the Lesser Synod’s meeting...
M. Stankovich
No, you simple ass. It figures that of anybody, you would miss me at 3:11. How many times have I said,...
Jeffery
Dear George and “Nit-picker”, Christ is Risen! Those ideas crossed my mind too but another also...
Heracleides
Isn’t that Stankovich at the 1:20 minute mark?
George Michalopulos
Dear-to-Christ Kyrill, you are always welcome to post on this blog.
George Michalopulos
Can you say “cult of personality”?
George Michalopulos
Dr Stankovich, you always write reasonably and lucidly and for this I thank you. Permit me a...
M. Stankovich
ChristineFevronia, I do not disagree with you other than to say I entered this discussion for...
ChristineFevronia
Your prayers must be working, because I have had much, much peace in my heart since learning that a...
nit picker
Hi Jeffery- Maybe Fr. Jillions wants us all to be insanely jealous that he got to go fishing in Alaska? Or...
Kentigern Siewers
Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Now the Chancellor’s friend and defender offers his...
Carl Kraeff
George–I wanted to say goodbye to you too. I thank you for allowing me to post on your blog. In...
Jeffery Erickson
Hello. I just found your website and I hope I am not writing something that has already been covered...
colette
replying to Nit picker May 23, I thought that was you.
Kentigern Siewers
Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Certainly the Chancellor’s friend and defender seems like...
nit picker
colette wrote: Yeah . . don’t mean to, but that is all I can remember. . .. Who are you? I could tell you,...
nit picker
Dr. Stankovich, Tell me you’re kidding me. Seriously. Tell me you were drinking Red Bull at 1:19 am...
Disgusted With it
Of course it was “skipped over”. People with such selective moral outrage can never be...
Michael Bauman
It has always been obvious to me that the issues and problems that Met. Jonah created was challenging...
M. Stankovich
nit picker, Tell me you’re kidding me. Seriously. Tell me you were drinking Red Bull at 1:19 am...
colette
Yeah . . don’t mean to, but that is all I can remember. . .. Who are you?
Amazed in the Midwest
“He created issues and problems from the beginning of his tenure.” At this point, again, we...
colette
Stankovich, It’s her apartment, she can have whoever she wants stay there. Or are you now telling us...
It’s Called “Voting with Your Feet”
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Tim R. Mortiss
I’ll make just a few more comments, then leave the subject, which is so fraught and which is a...
Michael Bauman
If the union had divided, it is likely that the European powers would have had a great deal more...
Michael Bauman
Seraphim, et.al. I urge you to make a pilgramage to Ash Grove, MO, worship in the Orthodox Church...
Michael Bauman
The first state in which the idea of secession was seriously discussed what Massachusetts.
Seraphim98
Historian, since there is no reply button under your comment I have to do it this way: The proper manner...
George Michalopulos
I won’t blame Lincoln because had he lived the awful nightmare of Reconstruction would...
George Michalopulos
Thank you Lex. People forget that the Constitution and the Union that grew out of it, was created...
George Michalopulos
CQ, for what it’s worth, I think that California is the most beautiful state in the Union....
George Michalopulos
Seraphim, thank you for this lovely response. Robert Penn Warren was commissioned to write an...
historian
The proper manner for one state to “unjoin” the United States is via an amendment to the...
Seraphim98
No…that was largely the fault of the radical republicans who sought to completely crush us in every way...
Seraphim98
A couple of points: But it’s not my country, and I don’t get misty-eyed about it. But that is mainly...
Seraphim98
Have you thought out the ramifications of this republic truly divided? Those ramifications are not at...
CQ
George, I haven’t claimed things “are so rosy,” I’ve pointed out errors of fact. We...
lexcaritas
But Ivan the Union was entered into voluntarily by ratification by the constituting states and their...
George Michalopulos
You have every reason to love your state because of its staggering beauty. A minor quibble if I...
Tim R. Mortiss
I love my State, Washington, where I was born, where I can go from saltwater to high mountains in an...
Ivan Vasiliev
Have you thought out the ramifications of this republic truly divided? Imagine it! A stew of two or...
Tim R. Mortiss
I rest my case. It was too bad about 100 years of Jim Crow, too, but that was probably Abe...
Nate Trost
That’s one out of six law school graduates. The actual numbers for general BS grads is probably...
geo michalopulos
CQ, if things are so rosy in the Golden State, then why is one out of every six college graduates...
Seraphim98
My only self-imposed rule for chats with the unrecontructed is that only primary sources may be cited,...
Tim R. Mortiss
Well, from the glories of Christian emperors to those of the Confederacy we have enough grist for a...
George Michalopulos
The “challenge” is mine alone. I know what my gut tells me, but I want to quantify it...
CQ
I issued no “challenge” George. I reported the facts. North Dakota adds 2,281 here, 1,624 there, 862...
California: The Road Warrior Is Here
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Yo
Competing visions of the common good: Rethinking help for the poor. Videos, Washington, D.C....
May 20, 2013 – Tornadoes in Oklahoma
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George Michalopulos
Lord be praised that you and yours are safe.
Michael Bauman
If the experience of the clean up there is anything like what happen when a tornado hit a suburb of...
Francis Frost
Dear Mr. Michaelopulos: As far as I know there was no damage to any of our Orthodox churches here in...
Michael Bauman
Mr Kinsey, I pray that someday you will be able to put Fr. Herman down. You’ve been carrying him...
Sean Richardson
Have we heard any news of the Orthodox faithful and the Orthodox Churches in the area so devastated?...
Michael Bauman
Most of these storms are quite localized and you have time to get to safety. This one blew up much...
Gail Sheppard
Praying. . .
Michael Kinsey
May the Christ grant you the grace required to please HIm in crisis. There was another empty big ill...
Christ is Risen!
(18)
Lola J. Lee Beno
Well, now I can say that I now personally know someone who won a Typeface Design award! I’m...
Do These People Count as “Sexual Minorities”?
(193)
Michael Bauman
Michael I called egalitarianism heretical in nature and it is because all good gifts come down from...
M. Stankovich
Prof. Siewers, So when when Met. Anthony (Bloom) quotes St. Methodius of Olympus when man and woman...
Michael Bauman
not picker, we will be glad to pick some nits with you any time, but most of fun comes from my wife.
The Texan Who Stole the Show at Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral
(42)
George Michalopulos
You’re right. The “guns and butter” policies of LBJ paved the road for the...
Michael Bauman
The problem with the economy rests in the unrestrained industrialization and post-industrialization...
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