For several years, I managed to stay on the fringe of the Greek community.  I did some work on the church website, and I would volunteer at the annual Greek Festival, but I was hardly an active member. ...

As I mentioned before, we weren’t big churchgoers.  Occasionally the Greeks would have a Name day or Memorial that we were expected to attend, but for the most part, my wife and I would sleep in on Sunday. ...

Each time we ring in a new year it reminds me of the night my fiance (now wife) and I  spent watching the servers at my office roll over to the year 2000.  In the fall of 1998,...

After my brief encounter with the “Benny Hinn” fan club, it would be nearly four years before I set foot in a church again.  The majority of my free time was spent with people in recovery.  To “graduate”...

After finally completing my college degree, I landed a job as a salesman.  This wasn’t exactly what I had hoped for when I went back to college, but I was making more money than I ever made in...

In the years that followed, church was the furthest thing from my mind.  In fact, I developed a far more agnostic view of God and religion.  I wouldn’t say I denied his existence, but I wasn’t convinced that...

I did not grow up in a particularly religious family.  You could say we identified as Christians, but there was no reading the bible or praying in our household.  My grandmother had a few pictures of the classic...

Kind of cheesy I know, but I had no idea where to start so “In the beginning” seemed like as good a place as any.  Actually, the idea for this blog grew out of something that has yet...