Orthodixie

The last time I spoke in Beaumont, I was lucky to get out of there with my hair.

More – here.

This time, maybe it was because we talked about hesychasm (stillness) …

Or…

Maybe it’s because Santa’s making a list and checking it twice!

Gift idea – here.

Suffice it to say, I escaped hairy & okay.

(The faithful of St Michael Church, Beaumont, Texas are great!)

But they do talk funny in those parts. For instance, the words: soteriology, hesychasm, and vlachos were spoken — not to mention so-dzo, so-dzentai and so-dzenestitai.

Most holy Theotokos save us!

The Orthodixie Podcast on Ancient Faith Radio.

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Is it a story?

Steve, over at Pithless Thoughts, has a couple of charts. You’ll find one, below, and the other here.

“Never before has perpetual conversion seemed like so much fun. Fr Huneycutt is the perfect guide to the world of American Orthodoxy. His book provides genuine laughs, good advice, and even helpful tips on building a home iconostasis. Indispensable.”

— Tom Breen, Author of The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus

We Came, We Saw, We Converted – online at Conciliar Press!

Browse Tom Breen’s hilariously funny book, The Messiah Formerly Known as Jesus – Dispatches from the Intersection of Christianity and Pop Culture, HERE.

“The Baptist church I grew up in no longer exists, everyone was pressured into ever more solidified camps. Either you are a marry the gays and the gospel is social justice liberal, or you are a fundamentalist bible thumper who equates holiness with controlled rage, or you have powerpoint sermons preached by a pastor in a casual shirt after your congregation sings a bunch of happy clappy wave your hands while you sing your way to ecstasy songs led by a band with men who look fashionably edgy and women dressed like they are clerks at the local Victoria’s Secret shop.”

[While “Orthodox America” struggles with her own problems, the comment above (source) is funny and sad, simultaneously.]

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