If by “gab” you mean missing an audience with His Holy of Holiness, you can put on a happy face. Patriarch Bartholomew will be here as planned. I must say, he pulled a fast one. (On Monomakhos anyway.) Only yesterday, we published a piece about the meeting between Metropolitans Joseph and Hilarion and how it […]
Auld Lang Syne
September 15, 2021 by
Well, this is good news. His Eminence, Metropolitan Joseph of the Antiochian Archdiocese paid a very friendly visit to His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of ROCOR. I sense an opening here. I also sense that these two primates sense an opening as well. What do I mean by that? Simply this: that the grand unification of America […]
COVID and the Breakdown in the Episcopal Response
September 8, 2021 by
Last month, Orthodox Reflections published an excellent essay. I highly recommend that you read it for yourself in its entirety. It’s that good. https://orthodoxreflections.com/orthodoxy-needs-communication-and-repentance/ The crux of this essay is that the American Orthodox episcopate dropped the ball regarding the crisis brought on by the pandemic. It is an eloquent and precise appraisal of […]
“The Curse of St Nicholas” Strikes Again!
August 26, 2021 by
Well, well, well. How the worm has turned. I realize that this is a little bit dated but –what the hey?–it always feels good to rub a mass murderer’s face in it, isn’t it? Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, the Great Fredo Hope of the Democrat Party, the Emmy award-winning Savior of Humanity, the […]
Our Suez Moment
August 16, 2021 by
So here we are: helicopters hastily retreating into the skies, with scared civilians desperately clinging to them. This was Saigon, 1975, and that helicopter taking off from the American embassy was the sorry capstone of our involvement in Vietnam. It didn’t matter that we never lost a single battle against the North Vietnamese Army of […]
Who is That Masked Man?
July 22, 2021 by
In case you didn’t know, Biden, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States is prostrating himself before President Rivlin of Israel. (That’s even more of a full grovel than what his former boss Obama used to do before Muslim kings.) I thought we had protocol officers who are supposed to advise American office-holders and their entourages […]
AXIOS! Thoughts on the Recent Episcopal Consecration
July 1, 2021 by
As I wrote a few days ago, Gail and I had the pleasure of witnessing the consecration to the episcopate of Abbot Gerasim Eliel, the rector of St Seraphim’s Orthodox Cathedral in Dallas, Texas. The proceedings started on Monday, before Vespers, in the nave of that wondrous edifice. Seated on an elevated throne, His Beatitude […]
About That Gain of Function Thing
May 14, 2021 by
Last year, the lovely publisher, editor-in-chief, and all-around Muse first alerted you, Gentle Reader, about something called gain-of-function. 07/31/20 “. . . I do not trust the fact that Fauci never mentioned the gain-of-function (GoF) research going on at the Wuhan Lab or explain to the American people what that is, why it’s relevant with […]
“Help Me to Hate White People”
April 22, 2021 by
If you’re ever wondering what kind of prayer demons would say, this one would fit the bill: “Dear God, Please help me to hate white people, or at least to want to hate them. At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively. I want to stop caring about their misguided, racist souls, to stop […]
The “Tighty-Whities” Debate
March 26, 2021 by
Our country is deeply polarized. Even people on the Left admit as much. We are in fact more polarized than the time before the War Between the States. Consider that in his Second Inaugural Address, President Abraham Lincoln made these comments about the two sides: “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same […]
Recent Comments