Posted in Ecology, Emmaus, History, Mission, Podcasts, tagged Emmaus, History, Ireland, localism, Mission, Podcasts, scotland, thin places on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A fascinating event held recently at St. Paul’s was this seminar and discussion led by Prof. Alfred Siewers of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (referenced in this previous post). You can now listen to both parts of the recording made of the seminar via Ancient Faith Radio:
Part One—the bulk of the seminar, introduced by [...]
Posted in Feasts, History, Mission, tagged Mission, scotland, st ninian on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Among other saintly commemorations today, we remember Ninian, the Enlightener of Scotland. From all apparent worldly analyses, St. Ninian was something of a failure. He’s called the Enlightener of Scotland, because he first brought the Christian faith there in the final years of the 4th century, but he wasn’t terribly successful. He [...]
Posted in Emmaus, History, tagged Emmaus, encounters, History, localism, names on August 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This past Friday, I made another assay into the streets of and around Emmaus to find myself a decent barber shop. My first haircut experience in Emmaus, to put it frankly, hurt. I have no idea exactly why that gent had such a need to dig the clippers with such fervor into my [...]
Posted in Emmaus, History, Mission, tagged Emmaus, History, Mission on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday the 15th of August, after we completed services for the Dormition, members of the Orthodox Church of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, manned a booth at the festival marking the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Borough of Emmaus. One could say that we are a church obsessed with history, and so it is [...]
Podcast: Orthodoxy & Heterodoxy
