Christian Pipe Smokers

Let's keep this going. I'm horrible about asking for prayers myself- but I sure could use them. Praying for all of you as well.

Lord, have mercy!

And the Orthodox prayers for little Charles are Ascending.

Lord, have mercy on your child Charles.

For my personal approach, I believe in the timelessness of this saying that has been attributed to many saints, both Catholic and Orthodox: "Preach the Gospel always. When necessary, use words." As for that old saw "if they had ever considered where they are going after they die"...

Regardless of the pro-Biden editorializing by the article author, Damon Silvers's lecture does sound fascinating. The following quotes are not, in and of themselves wrong, and with the right exegesis are actually quite correct: neoliberalism results in "nominally democratic political systems ta...

And with thy spirit!

One of the first pipes I ever got was a Savinelli rhodesian that looked very similar to a pipe Anthony Hopkins smoked as CS Lewis in the movie Shadowlands . I almost bought a freehand pipe not long ago that was very similar to a freehand my dad smokes that I have long admired. Alas, I kept my PAD in...

[Worship at the Divine Liturgy was also according to the English Rite in Old English. I just checked on this myself, and English Catholics worshipped in English language right up to the Reformation, when Catholic worship in English was suppressed for 300 years and lost forever. By the time Catholic...

Packing a bowl of Embarcadero in my Comoy Rhodesian