Every year on or around Epiphany, a group of Eastern Orthodox Christian faithful from Denver forms a carpool caravan and drives three hours to the Continental Divide at Monarch Pass, Colo. They make this trek to bless the snowpack because they know that the spring melt will flow east and west down the Rockies to feed the life-giving streams and rivers of the lands below.
Recent events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies.
If the topless protests organized by the radical feminist group Femen - typically featuring skinny, attractive women - have sometimes seemed like a dirty man’s dreams come true, there might be a good reason for that. According to a new documentary, the mastermind behind the group, members of which earlier this year assaulted a Belgian Catholic bishop for his views on homosexuality, was, until recently, a man with a penchant for pretty girls, and a habit of belittling the feminist warriors he led into battle.
Eighty percent of Americans asked say they favor a pivot — but it isn't to Syria. Following the $2 trillion geopolitical disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan, the message is a one-word pivot — home!
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His message was for the people of God, those called by God’s name. It was a disturbing warning of that which seemed impossible for the land of the Temple of the Lord, where the leaders would say, “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us”, and where the experts cried out, “All is well!”. The parallels with America today are more than disturbing.
