Orthodixie

Serge’s comment is food for thought, at least.

Maybe …

1) like the academically unqualified Barbara Harris was promoted 17 years ago in the rush to make a statement, Robinson’s problem was covered up and/or …

2) all the pressure of being a world symbol as well as a bishop got to him and aggravated it.

The obvious point of many who’ve spread this news online is his becoming a practicing homosexual didn’t do the trick and he remains unhappy.Somebody else has suggested that this could be a way for ECUSA to prevent a split in/from the Anglican Communion (for now) without having to repent: use the alcoholism as an excuse to retire Robinson early. I’m not sure if they’d do that or if Robinson would ‘take one for the team’ like that though… perhaps if he were paid handsomely for his trouble like the severance package Jo Mo Doss got from the Diocese of New Jersey.

He’s, of course, referring to THIS.

Any way you look at it, all things considered, he’s unfit to be a church leader.

Maybe his failure is just plain genetic.

This blog has received 100,000 visits since May, 2004.

(417 before Sitemeter, 99,583 after)

At 9:08 pm (CT), someone in Dallas, Texas, was the honorable 100K visitor.

As anyone with a blog knows, it’s a lot of work. More than that, I appreciate your time.

Thank you.

God bless!

Women who are less than nine weeks pregnant can safely have medical abortions at home, according to the head of a government-backed pilot project.

You know, that sounds harsh. Forgive me. I’m sorry. Sad, really.

Lord have mercy.

Way back when, I saw Willie Nelson in concert … four times. In my younger days, I also saw KISS and Prince. In fact, as I once admitted to a therapist (coworker), I once saw Willie Nelson, KISS, and Prince all in the same year. He said, “Hmmm. Why don’t you come to my office sometime so we can talk about that?”

So now, just when it seems everyone’s all grown up, Willie Nelson sings a gay country song, “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)”

The country outlaw sings: “What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?” and “Inside every cowboy there’s a lady who’d love to slip out.”

Friends, I think this all started when he sang that duet with Julio Iglesias. Remember, “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before?” Uh huh, right.

His latest offering gives new meaning to:

“A Good Hearted Woman (In Love w/ a Good Timin’ Man)”

“On the Road Again”

and, of course

“Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys.”

I promise, when Prince joins Professional Wrestling and KISS releases a gospel album, I’ll seek out that therapist’s couch.

Fr. Nektarios in front of the desecrated Orthodox Serb tomb in Zociste. Dozens of cemeteries have been destroyed after the NATO led intervention in Kosovo despite the international civil and military presence. In many cemeteries tombs were smashed by axes and opened. Often remains of the deceased were scattered around. Want to help?

HT Fr Victor Potapov


“The victory of jihad in Kosovo would be a local triumph pointing the way to further victories to come, eventually to a worldwide victory. They would point and say: “Where is their God?” As Christians, our hope of victory is not an earthly one. “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.” I remind you that in our part of the world, we suffered centuries under shari’a rule, and no man knows the numbers and names of all the martyrs from those times. We do not prefer to repeat that nightmare, but we are prepared for it if it comes. But my plea to you, as American citizens, is that your country would not help hasten that day for the Christian Orthodox people of Kosovo.”

More …

HT Fr Miguel Grave DePeralta

One of the demonstrators was a small child with a placard that said, “Whoever insults the prophet kill him.” Another marcher wore a suicide bomber costume.

Other signs in London said: “Behead those who insult Islam,” “Europeans take a lesson from 9/11” and “Prepare for the REAL Holocaust.” The organizer of the Feb. 3 event told the BBC that he looked forward to the day when “the black flag of Islam will be flying over Downing Street.”

But what stunned British writer Geoffrey Wheatcroft was something else he saw while blitzing through news reports about the waves of fury inspired by those 12 Danish cartoons of the prophet Mohammad.

“Not only did the police make no arrests” during the London demonstration, even though it “openly incited murder; they actually sheltered the fanatics” …

tmatt’s latest

Meanwhile, Willie Nelson sings a fruity country song, homosexual bishop admits he’s an alcoholic, folks long for the next American Idol, and iPod sales soar.

God help us.