A World of Speculation

Negatives in the prayer of St. Ephraim

After 15 years in the Orthodox Church, I have seen the prayer of St. Ephraim come up on the Lenten horizon and sink behind Pascha often enough to know it without looking at the cheatsheet:O Lord and Master of my life,Take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of...

How did I miss this?

Soon after becoming Orthodox, I learned that we are 13 days out of step and 15 minutes late, and it didn’t take all that long to learn to like it.Now that I’m a pajama-clad blogger, I move Orthodox time into the news business, where this Sept. 5 article...

Rev. Ned update

We last heard from Rev. Ned Reidy back in June when he wrote an article congratulating the Orthodox on ordaining women deacons.A little googling turned up the fact that he’s in a “let’s play Catholic and have women priests” community, and a...

On the Incarnation

Unvoiced, the Godhead spoke the worldAnd unflesh hands made man.Time’s Creator, not bound by time,More distant than the sky,Who willed to be in place and timeConfined, Who healed and taughtWith hands and voice of matter born,Was one of us, though God.Closer now...