Top Posts of the Last Week
Here is a list of the Top Posts from the last week here at Shepherd of Souls. Fr. Alexander Schmemann on Forgiveness Sunday Giving up things for Lent Heartland ...
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Giving up things for Lent
The annual “what am I going to give up for Lent” has begun. I find this time of year rather amusing as I listen to and read what people are going to give up fo...
What is Your Legacy?
Several years ago I taught a class a local college called Death and Dying. The class was a multi-disciplinary look at the process of dying from the spiritual t...
Fr. Alexander Schmemann: Forgiveness Sunday
In the Orthodox Church, the last Sunday before Great Lent – the day on which, at Vespers, Lent is liturgically announced and inaugurated – is called Forgiveness...
Popular Posts of the Week
Here are the 10 Most Viewed Posts of this past week here at Shepherd of Souls Is There Time for Manufactured Social Media Drama? Heartland ~ A Review Kalmoukos ...
Arthur Buckminster Fuller, Preacher, Chaplain, and Patriot
When I began my study of the chaplaincy during the time of the American Civil War, the first person I came across was the Reverend Arthur Buckminster Fuller. H...
Is there time for manufactured social media drama?
I have been very active in social media these last few years. I look upon my time spent engaging people in this forum as an extension of my ministry and the wo...
Revising History
In a recent Facebook exchange I was accused of being a revisionist historian mainly for my position on whether or not the United States was founded as a Christi...
Bringing Eastern Christianity into a direct conversation with the modern and postmodern West
I would like to draw your attention to a blog that has taken on a new direction. Fr. Oliver Herbel has been writing a blog called Red River Orthodox that has m...
Do Symbols Matter?
History is filled with very important symbols – not only people like George Washington and John Adams, but things like the flag and the Declaration of Ind...