Recent content by PsaltiChrysostom

Never mind actual historical data from people who were there.

During the first half of the Orthodox wedding service, the priest exchanges the rings for the couple and says a prayer. In that prayer, we hear him say: Your own right hand, O Lord, armed Moses in the Red Sea. Yea, by the word of Your truth were the Heavens established and the earth set upon...

Google is your friend... We know some of the heresies of the Nicolaitans, named after one of the seven deacons in Acts. Please don't try to make up ideas when there really is historical information! A term appearing in the Revelation (2:6, 15) describing members of Christian congregations who...

So I found this thread on Reddit. This is a statement by an LCMS pastor from October 1, 2023. As for the throwing away of individual cups, the answer is more complicated. Beginning in the 1960s, there was a decided anti-traditional movement in the LCMS, combined with an influx of receptionism...

I'm with you on that. The other problem is that its difficult to get government loans for vocational training which lets private loan companies rope people in on high interest loans for vocational training at for-profit schools. I used to teach at Lincoln Technical (2000-2004), which is one...

Southern US sayings "You could drive a preacher to drink" "They live so far out in the sticks that even the Presbyterians handle snakes" "Bless your heart"

I've been in a fairly mixed churches with Greeks, Slavs, and African worshipers. It's not unusual to see someone raising their hands in the orans position (hands raised to shoulder level). As long as you aren't knocking someone over, very few people will care. You might get a few odd looks or...

Shouldn't they put those in the Conspiracy Theory faraday cage? :P I guess my Covid vax didn't take yet again. I've had all of the schedule boosters and haven't mutated into Jason Mamoa much to my wife's disappointment.

Sigh I know. And then of course, he would probably say that they weren't "real" vets. My favorite encounter was at the beginning of Covid and a vet at my VA refused to wear a mask or answer Covid questions to get into the hospital. He told the police officer at the entrance "You're nothing...

Such a barbarian language... Greek for everyone! :p

What? You want me to give you names of the vets I work with who don't trust Trump?

My own feeling is that liberal arts majors SHOULD have a STEM minor and vice versa. I have two bachelors, Chem Eng and Religion. My final job in engineering, the president of my company, which designed ethanol plants, was thrilled that he had someone who could write. One other thing that...

I know plenty of pro-Trump and anti-Trump active and vets and I work at a VAMC. I hear a LOT. One former co-worker and Army vet (Desert Storm and Kosovo) wrote this yesterday: If you are an American and still vote for Trump after his blatant disgust and disregard for the POWs, killed action...

Liberal arts degrees can be entry points into all different kinds of fields, even into STEM careers. This is all anecdotal from friends and classmates. Master of fine arts in sculpture - Boss's son did art restoration and then designed the exhibit cases for the RMS Titanic travel show...

FYI, Chris Hillman, one of the founding members of The Byrds, is Greek Orthodox. Speaking about the Byrds’ hit “Turn, Turn, Turn,” he says, it was “[p]robably the only time a song was at No. 1 on the charts right out of the Bible. I know Pete [Seeger] made his half of the publishing. I don’t...