The Cross & Icon blog

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admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:47:19 +0000

Welcome to The Cross & Icon blog.

We hope that you will find the discussions here interesting and informative.

It is our hope that a spirit of Christian love can be recognized by all who partisipate as well as those that just sit on the sideline and watch.

There are no rules other than the above and it is our hope that there will not have to be any.

After you have looked around here please take some time and look at the parent domains to this blog.

They are:

The Orthodox Shack

The Wood Cross

and

The Icon Site

Thanks for visiting and come back soon.

Warren Bensinger

What is an appropriate gift for a russian orthodox baptism?

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:24:35 +0000

I have a dear girl friend whose child is having a traditional russian orthodox baptism. Need ideas for gifts.

Don’t take Jame’s advice as we Orthodox Chritians don’t use roseries we have Chotki prayer ropes which are not rosaries. For starters they form a loop with out the beads hanging off-
my advice get an icon of the Child’s patron saint-if you don’t know who that is any icon would do. or an Orthodox Cross. You don’t need to specify Russian Orthodox since all of us "Eastern" Orthodox are the same- the differnces are language vestments and icon lettering.

http://www.conciliarpress.com/icons

edit I thought the vodka one was funny- having a few drinks after church to celibrate is not a bad idea.

What does Talmud say regarding an Orthodox Rabbi going to a Reform Temple?

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:08:35 +0000

A friend of mine lives in America. We email all the time. He said he is going to a meeting in his Reform Temple where an Orthodox Rabbi, a Conservative Rabbi and a Reform will discuss in the sanctuary "Is Torah the Word of God".

I told him I was surprised the Orthodox Rabbi would do this.

What is your opinion?

While the other "top contributer" is correct, the Talmud predated Reform Judaism by many hundreds of years, he is sorely mistaken about Orthodox Judaism. There are many Orthodox Jews who would not go into a Reform (or Conservative) temple, as the building represents beliefs which are foreign to Orthodox Judaism. There are exceptions and other disagree, but you (the asker) are not far off.

What is the catholic explanation for anything bad that happens in the world?

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:08:32 +0000

For people who do not believe in God, when arguing their point, they often pose this question: "If there is a God, then why does he let bad things happen to good people?" How would a Catholic priest or any informed catholic respond to this question?

Your idea that God judges situations exactly the way that you do is interesting.

Have you ever really thought about that?

Love and blessings Don

I write Christian lyrics and put vocal melody to them. How can I get my songs published?

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:08:28 +0000

I am trying to find a way to start a home business with my songs, but I’m not sure how to get the exposure. I don’t know how to play an instrument. I can only write lyrics and put vocal melodies to the lyrics. I have copyrighted 12 of my songs. Now I would like to get them published so that I can present them to Christian artists that are already established in the music industry, so that I can live off of the royalties. I would appreciate any professional advice or opinion.

I am rather new to the industry, I must admit, but I would suggest just going on different artist’s sites that you know and contacting them. A lot of Christian artists have their own website and they have a contact me section. That would be a rather direct approach but it would be a way to get started.

As for a way you can get noticed is you could try going around to churches and see if you can find any bands that are trying to make it and have them play a show at a church or two to get word around, making sure that you get credited for your lyrics. Then some buzz might start to be built on that and you could get heard about by others.

You also could try asking to be advertised on a local Christian radio station. KLOV would be a good one to try as I believe they are nation-wide and I know a ton of people love that station.

What is an icon that could be used to represent how it feels to be a graphic design student?

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:08:25 +0000

I need to pick an object that can be turned into an icon. Then i will use that icon and manipulate it to express 5 different emotions related to how it feels to be a design student. For example, Someone chose a life jacket to represent the sink or swim aspect of design.

You want an icon symbol of sorts, that represents the emotions of a student in graphic designs,

start with the Graphic pen on tablet,

Happy Pen – Bouncing from point ◠ to point, ◠ to point, ღ.¸.¤ ¯`°¤.¸
Angry Pen – Stabbeth thee, thy bleeding Apple , †
Sad Pen – Laying in woes, with nothing to drawing , ◕╭╮◕
Anxious Pen – Fretting with sweat, to meet timely deadlines, ۵۵۵
Stringent Pen – Pointing where it wants to go next, put me over there, now!, ☞
Lazy pen – Slacking off in the pen holder, Just a minute, no hurry , Z zz…

facial expressions face

http://www.do2learn.com/games/facialexpressions/face.htm

if you use something outside of the design field, anything could be substituted,
everything is computerized now-a-days, the computer, the software, input and output devices,

you could look at a calender, for lax days or deadlines,
Monday, rested, (-.-)zzZ
Tuesday, edgy, (-_-;)
Wednesday, stressed, `(•.°)~
Thursday , composed, (c_c)
Friday, calm , (v_v)
Saturday, thinking, （´-`）.｡oO( … )
Sunday, fidgety, (o_O)

look at things around your work space, pencils, ruler, table, "lamp" , markers, paper,
illustrator, keyboard, clock, silence, noise, "weather", window, pillow,

"lamp" , off days, on days, low days, bright days, slow days,…

weather, cheerful day, gloomy day, fast paced day, bambi day,

Would it be improper to seek language classes at a Greek Orthodox church without subscribing to the religion?

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:20:31 +0000

I’m intensely interested in pursuing Modern Greek for both linguistic and cultural reasons. The only place I know in my area that offers Modern Greek instruction are the Greek Orthodox churches in the area. However, I have never been religious and consider myself atheist. Would it be improper to use the Greek Orthodox community as a resource if I might not convert? I’m most certainly open to attending services and involving myself in the community regardless of my own personal beliefs about theism.

No, I don’t think so. I recently finished Spanish classes a Catholic church nearby, even though I’m not Catholic. The brothers there were very welcoming and actually encouraged me to attend the lessons. They didn’t force their beliefs on me at all. I thought it was a very nice experience and it didn’t seem like anything was wrong or off.

What’s the difference between Roman Catholic and just Catholic?

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:20:27 +0000

I was having a conversation with my boyfriend about religions and he asked me if I was Roman or just Catholic. What’s the difference? I’m Catholic, I believe in God and Heaven and Hell and that’s about as far religious as I go. I was Baptized and I had my confirmation.

The word, catholic, means "universal" . All those in Christ everywhere are "the church", the universal church.

Roman Catholic has the Pope in Rome as it’s head, and ascribe to all it’s rites and rituals, etc.

And God never said- to be saved, you must do rites, rituals, oh did you get baptized, confirmed, etc??? No- God says, you must be born again. Do you have Christ?

That is the question, not what denomination you "belong" to.

With a mostly christian population, why is America so secular and afflicted with serious morality problems?

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 10:20:23 +0000

It seems that with such a large christian population constantly praying and chanting, "god bless america," this country shouldn’t be having such serious morality problems. Atheists and members of non-christian faiths are comparatibely a minority so they couldn’t be that influential. What gives?

For one thing, some of those who claim to be Christians ( especially in Gallup polls and the like ) are in reality just "pretend" Christians in the fact that they have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior, have no idea of what it takes to enter into the Kingdom of God, think that just being a "good person " is enough, etc, etc. Also, the enemy and his minions have many people blinded to God and the Truth of Scripture

How did protestant evangelical ideas on the bible shape their ideas on slavery and responses to others?

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:27:08 +0000

We have a discussion for class tomorrow and I haven’t found a lot of information. Particularly we’re focused on white protestant evangelicals and their idea about religious authority. Also the others I mention are more specifically Mormons and Catholics. Thanks for the help.

google christianity and slavery.