Author: GK Masterson

Please, when you are buying a book (eBook, print, paperback, hardcover), check to see if it is published by the Ingram Group. They are currently publishing the works of Marion Zimmer Bradley who sexually abused her own daughter, my friend Moira Greyland Nelson, among others. MZB, the author of The Mists of Avalon, was also […]

So, the next few posts in this series are going to focus a little more on understanding the structure of the Orthodox church and its core beliefs and practices because understanding them is kind of important to understanding why Roman civilization continued and flourished up to the fifteenth century in Byzantium but floundered and collapsed […]

The Holy Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, “sadly announces the falling asleep of His Excellency Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia on Wednesday 24th August 2022.” Bishop KALLISTOS was one of the most well-known writers and apologists for Orthodoxy in the 20th and 21st century. Prior to his ordination, he was known as Timothy Ware. His […]

So, this is going to be one of those posts where the Catholics aren’t going to like what I have to say. Therefore, I’m going to make a deal with them: if y’all are willing to understand that this is the Orthodox point-of-view and that I’m not asking you to accept it, like it, or […]

…On Christianity and trade routes. You didn’t actually think the answer was going to be “rock ‘n’ roll,” did you? Yeah, no Constantinople was founded by our boy Constantine because he was paying attention to the times. That’s right, I’m talking about the actual city now that I promised I would get to last time. […]

So, when we last met, I said that we would get to our boy Constantine. And boy howdy, we are! First, a little bit of housekeeping. We’re dealing with an era where everyone had the same few names it seems. So, the cast of characters is this: Flavy-Flav — Flavius Valerius Constantinus the Father of […]

Okay, so, pretty much everyone knows what Rome was, that it was originally a Republic and then Caesar took control and got stabbed on March 15 and there was a war and Augustus took over and then it was an Empire. We all know that Rome dominated much of the known world at that era, […]

So, based off comments over at the Writer Dojo’s Facebook page and over at the BWDC Discord, it’s becoming pretty clear that most Westerners have no clue about the history of the Church outside of whatever they were taught during a Western-centric history course where Rome is considered the Center of the Universe and no […]

So, it’s no surprise that I’m looking forward to the coming 6.2 patch for Final Fantasy XIV. One of the features of this patch is a farm for each player called “Island Sanctuary” and to promote this, they’ve partnered with a farm and are livestreaming from it 24/7. You can see cows, chickens, goats, and […]

Bill just posted on Facebook that something urgent cropped up. No promises that there will be one tomorrow either. See featured image for details. — G.K.

Boy, how I can relate. Warning: spoilers for Dragonlance novels that are 30+ years old. I can remember the first time a book made me so upset that I literally slammed it shut and threw it across the room. This was also the first time I got shouted at and made to do extra laps […]

God Bless Bess! Congrats on 70 years and here’s to hoping for another jubilee or three!

So, today on T’noah, I got to the part of the MSQ (main story quest) where you go into your first dungeon. This is the part of MMOs that a lot of people struggle with since, especially when dealing with content that hasn’t been new for many years, there’s a lot of anxiety about grouping […]

So, I’ve been begging Bill to give Final Fantasy XIV a try for a bit now and, of course, he hasn’t. So, to show him what he’s missing, I’ve decided to reroll a new toon and go back through the game again. 🙂 I will be streaming this regularly over at Twitch and will post […]