Got Your Apostolic Constitution

Here.
Brother Stephon of Sub Tuum has initial thoughts.

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And while they were hula-hooping

These guys started singing one of my favorite Kevin Welch songs, one that I hadn’t thought about it years. Years.
On this beautiful day, with trees dropping dead and dying brown leaves around us in the warmth and life,  they sang this song and I sang it too:

There’s gonna to be two dates
On your tombstone.
All your [...]

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Trains

Where?
Here.
I love the old guys in charge of the model trains. They’re called the “Wreckers” because they regularly wrecked their basements with their hobby.  The little blue and green coffee pot on top of the middle building in the last picture is an actual little lit-up moving sign.
And yeah, there’s a “See Rock City” barn [...]

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Hula Hoops Can Be Dangerous

Where? Here. An arts/crafts/enviro-emphatic event at a local chi-chi faux Charleston/Savannah style-like development that backs up to an apparently lovely nature preserve that we were too worn out to go explore.
Not enough parking, of course, so you park at Regions Field (where the Birmingham Barons play) and ride the bus over, with friends of all [...]

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And then he started talking about the Romans

…which you’d expect (how they strayed by their innovations of a different way of signing the Cross; celibacy;Immaculate Conception…etc), but what I liked about his informal presentation of the Orthodox faith to this probably mostly Protestant group was the matter-of-factness of it – non-apologetics apologetics. Of course we’d want our babies to be joined to [...]

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“We’re just God’s pencils”

How the Russian Orthodox priest described the priest’s role in Confession.

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