For those of you who are in the Washington, DC area on May 6 and would like to participate in the National Day of Prayer, please join us at St. Nicholas "http://www.stnicholasdc.org/". If you are not in the Washington, DC area; go to http://nationaldayofprayer.org/ and find an event in your area.

Also, please feel free to pass along the information concerning our prayer vigil to anyone who might be interested.

5:00 pm to 9 pm Reading the psalms and silent prayer for all who attend. This is an Eastern Orthodox Church; the interior is covered with hand painted icons. All are welcome.

Massachusetts and Edmunds, near Observatory Circle, Mass Avenue door only will be open
Washington , DC 20007

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote, “Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.” Even though they talk almost obsessively about the Founding Fathers, this simple truth has been totally lost on Republicans for decades. The trend has accelerated since 9/11, but "law and order" as a Republican wedge issue dates back to at least Nixon.

Whatever Happened to the Land of the Free and What Can We Do About it.

See a promo for this talk here, http://www.peterandhelenevans.com/video-page.html

For more contact, Orthodox Speakers Bureau.

http://www.orthodoxspeakers.com/peter-and-helen-evans/

When President George W. Bush was in office, I was a flaming liberal. I opposed the Iraq War on a host of grounds, not the least of which was the Constitutional requirement that only Congress (not the president) could declare war.

I was critical of Bushian fiscal policies from profligate spending to steel tariffs to farm subsidies. I was bitterly opposed to the PATRIOT Act and other curtailments on the freedoms ordinary Americans enjoy. The various ideas coming out of the Justice Department about the ‘unitary executive' made my skin crawl, and please don't get me started at a party on the problems with torture and the ability to declare American citizens to be enemy combatants.

This is an article we wrote a few years ago, but feel is just as valid now; especially for Memorial Day.

Last night while flipping through the channels one last time before bed, we were shocked and amazed to see a young man urinating into a snow cone and then taking big bites of it, much to the delight of his companions. "So, that's entertainment," we thought disgustedly as we turned off the set.

Earlier the same evening we had watched with another type of amazement the 4th of July fireworks over the National Mall. We ooh'ed and aah'ed with thousands of others and felt a deep gratitude that we can witness loud, bright explosions in the sky with delight instead of running fearfully for cover, as they probably do in Iraq and Afghanistan these days.

"The great discomfort among many secular Americans is that the religion that they have dismissed for the last half a century needs to be revisited because we are now being visited by religious fanatics. The fanatics sense that our secularism is a great weakness of character that makes us vulnerable to defeat, and they are correct." --Rev. Johannes L. Jacobse

Yesterday we had breakfast with Star Parker, along with about 300 others at the Leadership Institute. It was a very enjoyable beginning to the day listening to how the Republican party can win the votes of Joe, Jamal and Juan Jose.

Let's Get Back to Basics.

Politicos are gearing up for the fight over who should fill the vacancy on the highest court in the land. Yet, a recent poll revealed that a vast majority of the ordinary citizens of America cannot name a single one of the Supreme Court Justices. More disturbing is that a large segment of our population doesn't understand that judges are supposed to interpret and apply the law, not make it up. It's time to get back to basics, or civics. We had a very interesting chat with a fellow who will take us through some of the basics of what our country is about.

With all the new democracies that have popped up around the world in the last 25 years (80 or so), none are based on the sovereignty of the individual, except ours. We're taking this opportunity to give a history lesson about our democracy, lest we forget. We begin with a segment of an interview with Senator Wallop.

Helen: Does the Church consider birth control to be abortion?

Fr. Tom: No.

Helen: Does it allow birth control?

Peter and Helen Evans were recently featured in an interview on Inside Catholic. Click here to see it.

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Jesus' attitude toward earthy riches was most succinctly summarized in the Gospel of Matthew 6:32 'For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.' His concern is that we should not assign them too high a place in our own concerns. He continues, immediately (v. 33), saying, 'But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.'

Many are concerned about the direction our country is going. Some call it anti -Christian, some call it post Christian, some call it secular. Whatever it is called, it is time to turn back the tide and bring Judeo Christian values back as the foundation of our culture and society.
From the video by Peter and Helen Evans

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Tea Party, April 25th, Washington DC

Friends, Americans, Patriots - lend me your ears!

We are gathered here on this beautiful day - not because we are filled with hate - but because we love our country.

NOT a Christian nation? Of course we are!

President Obama has been at it again - repeating the rather provocative statement that America is not a Christian nation. To be sure, he's said this for years and he also says that America isn't a Jewish or Muslim nation either. Rather, he says that we're "citizens" gathered around a "set of principles."

In last night's "Prime Time Press Conference" the Dear Leader promised that he would "cut the deficit in half" by the end of his first term. Sounds like a good thing, right? Wow, he's going to cut something bad that starts with a "d" in half! With all the bad financial news lately, this sounds like dramatically good news. Not so fast. Sit down, take a deep breath and pay close attention.

It is astonishing to me how many paid journalists seem to confuse the two "d" words, "debt" and "deficit." Most of us know what a debt is. If we owe somebody something, that's a debt. If I borrowed a cup of sugar from you and said I would give it back next week, that's a debt of one cup of sugar. If I borrowed $100,000 from a bank to buy a condo, that's a debt of $100,000. Right now, the U.S. has a debt of a little over eleven Trillion dollars. That "little over" is $41.7 Billion as of Monday March 23rd, according to the Treasury Office. For lots of scary truth visit "http://www.federalbudget.com/"

OK, what's a deficit? It's the opposite of a surplus. The deficit is the amount that you are increasing the debt in a given fiscal year. A "deficit budget" is a budget that spends more money than it takes in. A "budget deficit" is the amount by which spending exceeds revenue. Not too complicated, is it?

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the 2009 budget deficit will be $1.85 Trillion. The Administration estimates that it will be "only" $1.75 Trillion. Let's split the difference and call it $1.8 Trillion. President Obama says that, by the end of his first term, he will cut that deficit in half. We'll be spending $900 Billion more each year than we take in. In other words, we'll be increasing the national debt by almost a Trillion dollars a year.

Gosh, that doesn't sound quite as great as it did when he said it last night. Even if he can bring the deficit down that much by then, which many experts doubt, he'll still be digging our financial grave twice as fast as G.W. Bush's record year of 2008 when the deficit was a paltry $459 Billion.

Stop helping us, President Obama. You're just making things worse.

Let's discuss this article http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/09/barna-9-of-american-adults-have-a-biblical-worldview/.  It says that only 9% of Americans have a Biblical worldview.  Alot more think they are Christian and we've seen surveys where about 90% think they are "spiritual."  What that usually means is they make up their religion as they go along.   

If any of you are upset by the changes our government is making, say with the federal funding of embryo-destructive stem cell research, or the so-called Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) that ensures the 'right' to abortion, then you might want to remember that politics is applied theology. That is, we get the poltics that our culture and world-view demands. 

Our culture reflects our belief or non-belief or made-up belief about God, our culture elects the politicians that reflect those beliefs and we get laws that institute those beliefs.  How to the change politics?  Change the worldview. It's a grass-roots effort.  What do you think?

Globally, Orthodox Christianity is known to be highly conservative concerning what is frequently referred to as "traditional Christian morality." In Europe, for example, more progressive and liberal elements of society spare no effort in attacking the Church as a bastion of traditionalist repression, especially concerning homosexuality.

Ironically, however, in the United States an image seems to be growing of the Orthodox Church as more liberal towards sexual sins than, for example, the Evangelical denominations. Quite a few people, judging by chatter on the Internet, are getting the impression that Orthodoxy is similar to the Episcopal Church in respect to moral issues.

Rod Dreher is an Orthodox Christian and columnist for the Dallas Morning News. He's also a contributor to the Orthodox Christian Network, where his Just Thinking podcast is one of the network's most popular shows. He was also the target of a critical article recently published on a prominent conservative blog site.

Are you an Orthodox Christian with friends or relatives in or around Damascus, Syria? Do you belong to the Antiochian jurisdiction, and so have ties to Syria that way? If so, you might want to notify all your Syrian contacts that Damascus, ancient seat of civilization and the home of the Patriarch of Antioch along with thousands of Christians, is about to be destroyed by Israel.

In February 2008, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia. This capped off a process which had begun with NATO's airwar on Serbia from 24 March to 10 June 1999. That campaign killed an estimated 5,000 Orthodox Christian Serb soldiers, and wounded an estimated 10,000 more. This is in addition to the estimated 500 innocent Orthodox Christian civilians that were killed by bombs striking non-military targets. The direct damage of the bombing campaign has been estimated at $30 billion dollars in one of the poorest nations in Europe. Serbia is not expected to recover from the U.S.-led bombing campaign for another decade or more.

In late 2007, Dr. Clark Carlton, author of the well-known five-volume Faith Series of books on Orthodoxy, published an Open Letter to Orthodox Christians on behalf of Ron Paul. In his letter, published on LewRockwell.com, Dr. Carlton lays out his case for why Orthodox Christians should support Republican Ron Paul for president.

Dr. Carlton believes that our unique experiment in self-governance is at a cross-roads, and that only rediscovering Constitutional principles as espoused by Ron Paul can save our Republic.