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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/us/politics/democrats-draft-gay-marriage-platform.html?_r=1 The Democrat Party is already the party of abortion and of forcing taxpayers to pay for it. This is just one more step down the path of evil. I won't vote for any Democrat. Better not to vote at all...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/us/politics/democrats-draft-gay-marriage-platform.html Given that party's stand on abortion, this is just one more step toward the abyss. Kind of hard to temporize now with phony claims that the Democrat party is the "party of peace".

Here is my patron saint, whose name I took as my Christian name when I became Orthodox. I am starting this thread because he is not a well-known saint and thus is hard to find on the internet and elsewhere. File:Saint Lucian the Martyr of Kyiv Caves.jpg - Wikimedia Commons Have you ever...

Anyone I know still around here? :wave:

Anyone I know still around here?:wave:

Here is the trailer for the very excellent Russian film живой (Alive): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axMXsg7n7Ds It is about a young Russian soldier who loses a leg in the war in Chechnya. When he returns to civilian life he is followed by the ghosts of two of...

I would like to beg you all for prayers for me. My life is kind of a mess right now. I'd rather not go into details, however. Please pray for me.

I would like to beg you all for prayers for me. My life is kind of a mess right now. I'd rather not go into details, however. Please pray for me.

Have you all seen this? Maybe someone has already posted it, but I think it is great. My old priest (the man who brought me into Orthodoxy) sent it to me by email.

I thought you all might want to see some typical scenes from the Moscow Metro. Here they are. Having lived in Moscow and ridden the Metro a zillion times, I can tell you, this stuff is entirely normal!

It's been a long while since I started a thread here. This one may be short lived, but here goes. One of the things I've been involved in since I quit posting here so much has been my genealogy hobby and dna testing. Awhile back I had my y-dna (dna on the male y-chromosome) tested. The...

Have any of you had your DNA tested to confirm Jewish and (if you are Jewish) possible Cohanim (Levitical priesthood) ancestry? I am a bit curious about it, since my wife's grandmother Rachel was Jewish. You can read about the testing here if you are curious about it. You also might be...

I have spent my last few sessions on CF mainly debating in GT. Now I remember why I have always avoided that place. Good grief! The level of ignorance there is staggering. Lord have mercy.

Anyone heard of it? If you read most of the common English translations of the Bible, chances are you have not. I discovered it in reading Book III of Tertullian's Five Books Against Marcion. Here is what I am talking about. [/i] Using the KJV and the RSV, I tried to find out what...

What do you all make of this?

There is something that I have wondered about for a long time but have hesitated to bring up here because I really dislike political debates. Here it is. How can one be a Christian and a member or supporter of the Democratic Party? It is my hope that this question will stand alone and will...

We took our little three-year-old Anna to see it this evening. She loved it, and so did we. It is so much fun to watch a little kid getting a kick out of something. That is probably my favorite thing in the world. When we came out of the theater, it was snowing. Anna got all excited...

I posted what follows in another thread, but since it was a thread already fairly far along, I wanted to post it in a separate thread in order to get some reactions to it. It is something that has concerned me for awhile now. Here it is. If there are true Christians outside the visible...

The incredible rise of Babylonian-style corruption in professing Christian churches just floors me. There is a Presbyterian church in Arlington, Virginia, that now refuses to marry heterosexual couples because it cannot also marry homosexual (same-sex) couples. Get your barf bag ready...

The colors were a bit late in coming this year for some reason, but they are definitely here now where I live. I was up on Skyline Drive (Shenandoah National Park) a couple of weeks ago. The leaves were mostly gone up there, and there was snow on the ground. I love fall colors. It drove me...