What is a Churching?
I mentioned that Christine was churched on Sunday; it was my first time back to church since she had been born. It wasn't my first time...
Heretical Assumptions
This is part of our No Longer Sola Series. "The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The...
Be Reconciled
As we prepare ourselves for our first Holy Week in the Orthodox Church I wanted to share something that was very helpful to me in...
Drink of it All of You
This is a post in our ongoing No Longer Sola Series. Questions surrounding the Eucharist were an issue in my investigation of Orthodoxy. ...
Click Bait: Cute Baby Pics
Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone! I have uploaded many cute baby pictures as an unabashed attempt at click bait. (It's working right?)...
Why Not Rome?
My recent experience of Western Rite Orthodoxy got the gears turning on a question I have been receiving since our conversion. Why not...
The Weekend Getaway
Today is the feast day of Saint Benedict, the founder of Benedictine Monasticism! Last weekend I had the great blessing of visiting a...
The Tragedy in Our Story
Iakabos, Hope, Evangelia and Stephen just got home from a monastery retreat this weekend with a group from church. That means that I was...
Unity in Worship
In a previous post I promised to explore what unity looks like in the Orthodox Church. Although there are a set of agreed upon...
Smells and Bells
This post is part of our No Longer Sola Series. Sola fide. Faith alone. What does this mean? “Also they [our churches] teach that men...
