This small volume (114 pages) by an Orthodox archbishop is one of my very favorite books, and since it doesn’t seem to make into the church bookstores as much as I think it should, I’ll put in a word in time for Christmas buying.
The Amazon.com review of their book on tape version says: […]

As Orthodixie notes, Madonna the Material Girl has converted, and Ann “Interview with a Greasy, Oversexed, Totally Lurid Vampire” Rice has converted.
I would love to feel uplifted by this news, but I can’t help wondering how much it has to do with sagging record sales and a public disinterest in continuous vampiric pap. Celebrities […]

I’m not really looking forward to the next couple months. Listening to the news last night, it seems obvious that the next Supreme nominee is going to become a lightning rod for the entire culture war. If Bush nominates the kind of person I wish he would nominate — someone who is actually on the […]

Someone needs to take this dog hunting. It would be the only kind thing to do. It’s all Clementine really wants to do at this time of year (except sleep, which is a year-round kind of love). It’s obvious that her nose is telling her of wonders all around us, and there I sit like […]

Well, son-of-a-gun.
I was hoping for a less bile-filled write-up of this than the yahoo link above. You can almost hear the boldface in their opening paragraph, can’t you? “Under withering attack from conservatives, President Bush abandoned his push to put loyalist Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court and promised a quick replacement Thursday. Democrats […]

Who’s in charge around here? I’ve been waiting all year for autumn to officially start, and then two weeks ago it suddenly leapt out of the starting gate like Whirlaway on a fast break. Honest to goodness, the trees were green and they were green and then in one hour, half of them went […]

To truly repent is to cease from sin and not to look back again.
– Clement of Alexandria

This article in Mere Comments touches on a subject that has been on my mind: the troubling trend of pro-choice rhetoric these days that seems more and more casual in assessing the value of people and of asserting the bravery of selecting disabled people for extinction before they’re born.

The debate on abortion seems to be […]

On February 15, 1987, I was chrismated into the Orthodox Church at St. Nicholas Church in Los Angeles. It was a small intimate affair. Metropolitan Philip ordained 60 or so priests, then chrismated and served me my first eucharist, as he did to a couple hundred of my nearest and dearest friends and fellow travelers. […]

The deep waters of faith seem turbulent when we peer into them too curiously; but when contemplated in a spirit of simplicity, they are calm. The depths of faith are like the waters of Lethe, making us forget all evil; they will not reveal themselves to the scrutiny of meddlesome reasoning. Let us therefore sail […]