I was on my way to a seminar having spent the night in a coffee house. Did you know that ever since the Orthodox Church bought out Starbuck’s they now have overnight rooms available?
Yep.
Then …
The Orthodox Media limo arrived sporting a big Blockbuster ad on its trunk – with endorsements of various movies by popular Monks, Priests and Bishops … and there I was being whisked away to for a meeting of MMPFACF – the Media-Minded People for the Furtherance of the Ancient Christian Faith.
We had to speed, clipping a hundred miles per hour most of the way, to try to stay away from the Ecclesiastical Paparazzi. You know how it is whenever there’s an Orthodox gathering these days!
The Great American Orthodox Hall had the red carpet rolled out from the entry way to the curb … But, to keep it all in perspective, the word HUMILITY was embossed in Large white letters down the center of the runner.
As the limo pulled up to the curbside, the gathered choir of 5,000 voices began to sing … It was hard to get out of the big black people mover – what, with one hand hand-cuffed to the brief case which I had been given by the mysterious man during last night’s secret rendezvous, but more on that later …
I understood my mission. With Orthodoxy having become so popular, so suddenly, now was the time to really excite the masses and generate much needed revenue to all the parishes. All those years of struggle … little apartment missions, garage cathedrals and such … here we were entering a new era thanks to what many were calling the Great Orthodox Awakening.
Some say it all started when Bill Gates admitted that …
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