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My husband and I are looking for a traditional white baptismal gown for our son to wear at his baptism. We're having problems. It seems the modern thing to do now is have boys baptized in a white satin romper (going by what we've seen online at many different stores) or white tuxedo. This is...

I'm very happy to inform everyone who prayed that my son Benedict is finally home from the hospital.:clap: He spent the first 3 months of his life in hospital with 3 bouts of a very serious intestinal infection but is home now and growing like a weed.:thumbsup: I was looking for my prayer...

On July 17th, our son, Benedict James Jona, decided to be born 6 weeks too early. Life has been quite a roller coaster since. :sigh: About a week after his birth, while still in hospital, he started to show signs of getting sick. He was not interested in eating at all. Then he decided to...

I'm asking for prayers now because my husband and I need to move out of our very small apartment by the end of June and we haven't found another place yet. I've been calling places like crazy but I get very few calls returned for some reason. One thing we've noticed is that potential...

So, we had dinner with a Calvinist friend tonight. He's a really nice guy, a good friend of my husband, but neither of us can stand his Calvinist beliefs. :sick: Well, we ended up discussing theology for a bit.:help: I am so profoundly disturbed by this brand of theology that I can't even...

SAHM = Stay At Home Moms [FYI]. This poll is not just for women who are already a SAHM, but for anyone who has an opinion on it (men included). I think I have always wanted to be a SAHM, even before becoming a Christian, so I have always been somewhat mystified by women who have no desire to...

Read about it here. :o:eek: Does anyone else think it's a supremely bad idea to be using lead to make baby bibs?:doh:

This just makes me want to cry. Another Terry Shiavo case, only worse.:cry: I just want to state that I do not see quality of life or chances of long term survival to be the issue here. To me, the real issue is about who is allowed to decide who lives and who dies, and how quality of life is...

I hope y'all don't mind another prayer request.:pray: Please pray for my dad. He is not doing well at all. He has COPD (emphysema) and has now developed a heart problem. On top of this, he is going through withdraw from being on prednisone for a long time, so he's being tested to see if his...

Holy Week begins in a matter of hours, and I've done it again this year. I've wasted most of Great Lent and have not prepared myself as I ought. I finish every Great Lent (though this is only my second as a chrismated Orthodox person) feeling like a failure. Holy Week is one of the only times...

Hey, folks.:wave: My husband and I came across a documentary created in the UK about the theory of global warming. This is not a political attack on liberals (which is how some people see disagreeing with the "science" of global warming), but an intellegent documentary in which many world...

This. Living now in Canada, land of the gods of Tolerance and Moral Relativism, you have no idea how refreshing it is to see someone who is willing to call something immoral in public. Trust me, it doesn't happen up here. Unless they are talking about Bush, anyway.:sigh: I miss home.:(

So, we're looking at Saint names to name our baby (we will not know the sex until a couple more weeks). We asked our priest about whether the baby's first name should be a Saint's name, or if it would be okay to have the Saint's name be a middle name. He said he prefers it be their first name...

Okay, folks....time for some fun! Let's play NAME THAT HERESY!:D I will give a brief example of a person's belief on something, and the first one to correctly identify the heresy from which the belief derived wins the round. I haven't figured out what sort of prize there should be. I'm open...

Hi, all.:wave: It's been a looong time since I read up on the major heresies the Church has been up against since the early days, i.e., gnosticism, Arianism, etc. Does anyone know of a link online where I can read an overview of the major heresies? TIA.:)

There are many new faces here in TAW, but for those of you who have known me and my husband, Vasya Davidovich (I think we are TAW's first couple to meet here and later get married).....I thought you might like to know that we are expecting our first baby in August.:clap: We are very, very happy...

Okay....it's going to be tricky for me to post this without giving too much detail. I hope I can communicate clearly.... I know of a very dysfunctional family with 3 adult children (all children live away from home, 2 of them are married). This family is protestant with the exception of one...

Hi, all.:wave: Vasya and I haven't stopped in for a while....sorry....:blush: Anyway, we had Vasya's godfather over for dinner last night and he directed us to a website that had a very touching, beautiful story on it. I wanted to share it with y'all since it was written by an Orthodox person...

I was chrismated into the Faith of the Apostles (a.k.a the Orthodox Church) a year ago yesterday.:):clap: I just thought I'd express my graditude to TAW for giving me a place to hang out during my journey into the Church. TAW saw me through some rough times, when I didn't yet have a parish...

What a fun topic! Vasya and I, after only a couple weeks of marriage, are already thinking of baby names.[lol]:D And being that there are several Ortho-babies on the way in TAW, I thought it would be fun to discuss naming of children. Here are some questions: 1. Do you think children...