Recent content by cobweb

You have my prayers. I have a somewhat similar religious background to your wife (although my parents also were involved with the house Church movement as well as the Conservative Mennonites for a while). My folks only recently left the Charismatics and end timers behind.

I work retail. I have been a loyal employee at the same store for nearly 7 years. I work hard and I go out of my way to serve the customers properly. I am a team trainer and am the most experienced person in my department. My bosses have in the past been verbally abusive and have thrown...

Which is a bad thing if your kid ever decides to go to college and needs to take a biology course (been there... done that... got the bad grade to prove it.)

(Not going to debate... I swear. I just want to understand this perspective) Can you explain why? I really am curious why the music would need to be changed to attract new people. I don't have a horse in this race as we traditionally do not use any instruments during services. We do...

To deny that Mary is Theotokos is to deny that Christ is God.

Magnificat - YouTube Agni Parthene - Valaam Brethren Choir - YouTube Angel Vopijase - english version - YouTube And for our western friends.... what a few Russian profundos can do with a classic: 111. F. Schubert. Ave Maria. Vladimir Miller, basso profundo. Three Russian bass...

Yep. My priest has forbidden me from reading that site (I tend to be one of those crazy American converts that turns into a Russian peasant when they convert)

I think that is one of the yia yias in our parish.

I wouldn't say that most of the humans do it well either.

are probably smarter than the rest of us ^_^

I would say that the difference between us and other animals is that we debate theology on the internet.... but I'm not 100% positive that everyone debating theology on the internet is human. I heard a rumor about monkeys and typewriters.

O come on now. Head on down this a' way and we'll git y'all talkin' real purty-like. Nobody butchers the English language quite like we can.

Not really. Mom still wants to go to the local OCA parish and Dad doesn't really want anything to do with it. They seem pretty happy with their Episcopal parish, but not so happy with TEC at the national level right now.

It really depends on what you mean by "protestant". There are quite a few differing denominations/beliefs out there under the label of protestant.