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Join us in Houston during Bright Week — just after Easter — Friday, April 29h and Saturday, April 30th:

ORTHODOX: Dr H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr

PROTESTANT: Dr C. Ben Mitchell

ROMAN CATHOLIC: Dr Grattan T. Brown

Also, invited to Friday evening’s banquet:

ROMAN CATHOLIC: Daniel Cardinal DiNardo

PROTESTANT: Dr. Robert B. Sloan, Jr.

ORTHODOX: Bishop Thomas

Schedule

Register NOW!

General registration is $50, Clergy registration is $30, Student registration is $30 FREE! Registration includes admission to a day-and-a-half conference of panels, breakouts, and discussions, including three plenary addresses.

Friday Banquet Dinner – $18; Saturday Boxed Lunch – $8

Co-sponsored by Houston Baptist University, Pope John Paul II Forum, University of St. Thomas, Orthodox Clergy Association of Southeast Texas, and Touchstone Magazine.

So I’m walking along this road the other day …

When out comes this fellow, moseying along …

Turns out there was three of them …

And I’m walking back toward the lodge …

Past the groovy little windmill …

And the outdoor hot tub …

And the big wooden fish …

To the view from my window …

Obviously, I’m being followed …

Here, one leaves their shows at the door …

The Eighth Annual St John the Baptist Pan-Orthodox Men’s Retreat in Caroline, Alberta (near Calgary) …

Where, thanks to these chairs, Retreat Masters have to yell a lot …

Or spike the drinks with caffeine to stave off snoozing …

One guy’s local, the other came up from Texas …

Ukrainians, Romanians, OCA Catechumens, Lebanese, and me …

Calgary Olympic Park …

Riding through downtown Calgary …

To the Sunday evening Pan-Orthodox Lenten Vespers at St Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church …

Repent, the Kingdom of God is as hand!

Through the prayers of St John the Forerunner, O Lord be merciful to us and save us!

It’s all here.

Okay, fine, I get it. Maybe that’s why I was found in church in my pajamas on Pascha night!

But I still don’t get the appearance of Elton John, Lady GaGa, and … Carol O’Connor!

Let’s think about this a sec– Elton was singing Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

In that song, I guess we could see that, like the movie, the Yellow Brick Road leads to Oz – a city of pure superficiality. All glittery, but very little substance – the Wizard himself being a metaphor for the life of empty wealth …

I believe the song that Lady GaGa was singing in the last episode … uh, I can’t read those lyrics on Ancient Faith Radio — on second thought … never read the lyrics of a Lady GaGa song!

But her latest hits says:

I’m beautiful in my way
‘Cause God makes no mistakes
I’m on the right track, baby
I was born this way

Don’t hide yourself in regret,
Just love yourself and you’re set
I’m on the right track, baby …

Then there was Carrol O’Connor as Archie Bunker and his theory of race:

The sames should stay with the sames, and the differents should stay with the differents.

But, really, what’s with all the dirty laundry airing on the clothes line in front of the iconostasis?

Honestly? That one’s a no-brainer.

Hanging out other people’s dirty laundry for all to see, especially during the Great Fast –

scratch that …

The Orthodixie Podcast on Ancient Faith Radio.

Stuff for this podcast stolen from: here & here.

Sorta unrelated, but worthwhile … this site.

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“They could be the earliest Christian writing in existence, surviving almost 2,000 years in a Jordanian cave. They could, just possibly, change our understanding of how Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and how Christianity was born.”

Mollie, over at Get Religion, dices up the annual “we found sump’m ’bout Jesus y’all don’t know” story.

Several people forwarded me various news reports about this latest quackery. But a little poking around in the news stories’ ComBoxes led me, through a link, to the site of a smart man who’d bludgeoned the baloney on his blog. (That last part, there, is silly but was fun to write.)

Anyway, go HERE.

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