Serbian Orthodox Church

rose writes dear pam i am an avid listener of the witch wave pod and an eclectic pagan practitioner i'm contacting you because i'm seeking some advice on cue dramatic music wedding planning specifically i'm reaching out for advice on how to build a pagan ceremony I am pagan but grew up culturally with Catholicism and Islam in my household.

My fiancé doesn't subscribe to a specific religion and is open to my ways, however grew up Serbian Orthodox.

Somehow, we want to build a subtly pagan ceremony that also incorporates these aspects of our collective cultures.

I'm not sure if it's the overwhelm or accumulating decision fatigue, but I can't envision what this ceremony could look like.

From that my Tesla journey, I created later on, during the COVID, I finalized Rhapsody for piano and orchestra dedicated to Nikola Tesla, inspired by the rhapsodic form of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

And so what I did is I started with Tesla's religious heritage of Serbian Orthodox chants, and it starts with the church bells, and it develops into this multi-rhapsodic, multi-layered form that has lots of jazz, classical form, but there is a jazz, there is a pop, there is an ethnic, ethnic melodies coming from our culture.

childhood and Tesla's childhood.

And since Tesla spent most of his life creating in New York, he even has a Tesla company that he created in New York.

Father Athanasius and Loretta converted to the Orthodox faith in 1973.

They numbered among their close friends Dr. Charles Ashenan and the famed Serbian Orthodox scholar and theologian and his family.

Together, they made St. George Church of Indianapolis, now Fishers, their spiritual home.

In 1985, Metropolitan Philip ordained Father Athanasius to the Holy Diaconate.

And in that same week, my mother put a pencil in my hand and I knew I wanted to do art.

I was raised in a Serbian Orthodox environment.

And there was a lot of folk music because the church had a hall.

After church, we would go and they would have Serbian circle dances and accordion players, mandolins and violins.

Mladić had a funeral with military honors, flown on a military plane to Belgrade, Serbia's capital, on September 7th.

S- thousands of supporters came for his service with the Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Porfirije officiating.

He said, quote, "We know that his name will remain deeply etched in the memory and prayers of the majority of our Serbian Orthodox people who feel and nurture a deep sense of gratitude toward him." End quote.

A, a deep sense of gratitude to this man who has a lot of blood on his hands and is controversial to say the very least in the rest of Europe.

You can, uh, to say an understatement, you can guess this kind of glorification didn't sit well with Serbia's neighbors and the rest of Europe.