Recent content by FinnJames

If you make it through Lent without a cigarette, why stop there?

BBC report on the matter: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54854982

Yes, I did learn a bit of Tok Pisin, though I've never been to PNG. Here's a link to a little textbook I put together for students when I was teaching a course in English-based pidgins and creoles: https://archive.org/details/WholeBook/mode/2up

Gutpela nius! That's good news!

Ladder, I would urge you to start attending a church regularly rather than joining internet Christian forums. Fortunately, I attended services at a church, got to know people in the congregation, went through the teaching required of perspective members and then joined the church before...

For me a home parish is essential. It's a bit like a family where everyone helps everyone else and receives help in return, knows everyone else well enough to put up with a few foibles but keep everyone in check when they step too far out of line. But just like it's good to occasionally get away...

I made the same mistake just after moving to Finland when buying pepper. Often the Swedish on product labels in Finland can be helpful if you know English. But in this case Swedish 'kryddpeppar' (= allspice) is just as misleading, maybe even more so as it's not crude pepper.

No judgement in that post, I guess. How much more we lay people know than those who have given their lives to the Church.

Can anyone here share experiences of visiting the Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints on the Isle of Mull in Scotland? Assuming these corona lockdowns can't last forever, I'm making vacation plans.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. This doesn't seem to be a time anywhere in the western world when people from different races are willing to listen to each other without feeling hurt or worked up.

The only book of his I've read was co-authored with John Bergsma: A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament. I found it an excellent introduction to the OT, scholarship on it, comments on it by church fathers, its links to the NT, its use in Roman liturgy. Well worth a read even...

Enkeli huusi armoitetulle ['an angel cried out to the merciful' ?? in Finnish], Oulu (Finland) Orthodox Cathedral [virtual] choir (Valaam melody) https://youtu.be/MusZXq-ZMXc

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I'm just wondering how anyone could know this. Unless people are on the front lines of pro- or anti-abortion protests it's hard to tell where they stand on the issue.