I found a new blog yesterday, Fish Bowl, with an excellent series of posts refuting Calvinism. Before I became Orthodox, I decided that Calvinism was not the Bible’s message on God’s will and ours. Yet I never knew how to read passages like Romans 9 and Ephesians 1. I hoped I would some day find […]

The other night when I told Alethia the story of Saint Catherine, she asked me why God protected her from the wheel and the other attempts to kill her, but then permitted the king to cut off her head. I had to think about that one for a while. What I said was that God […]

I’ve been home for vacation for a few weeks now. I worked for a week and a half, and since then I’ve been preparing to move. Most of my things are packed. My folks were in town this last weekend. They came to help me pack, but mostly we just had fun. Saturday I took […]