I managed to find this dandy little item at a bookstore once, and I’ve been sold on them ever since. “The Daily Lives, Miracles and Wisdom of the Saints and Fasting Calendar” is a spiral-bound daily calendar lets you start the day with a little something to think about and other bits of help. In […]

Minor Clergy talked about his spam attack, and I knocked wood that my blog hadn’t been hit that hard. Then on Monday it happened. When I opened my e-mail, there were 206 comments pending to the blog — all spam. It goes something like this:
nifty site. i cant believe how lucky we are to have […]

I hesitate to say much more about my disappointment over Bush’s Miers nomination, because I think my more detached friends are about to chuck me under the chin and say, “Buck up, sweet pea,” or something like that. They aren’t necessarily less conservative than I am, but they just don’t let any of this stuff […]

This will only be of interest to those with a political bent, but I thought this was interesting commentary from Wall St. Journal’s “Opinion Journal.” The writer is James Taranto. I especially loved the next-to-last paragraph, which I italicized:

Miers Finds Few Buyers
WASHINGTON–When President Bush nominated Harriet Miers on Monday, we saw it as a missed […]

My local paper carried an AP wire story of Bush’s nomination to the Supreme Court with the headline “Bush taps loyalist for court” and sub-head “Miers has never served as judge.” Yep, nothing like the completely unbiased Mainstream Media to leave you wondering what on earth their opinion is. So Harriet Miers name doesn’t appear […]

Greg the Resourceful Husband managed to find this out-of-print gem, and I’m glad to say you can find it here at Alibris, which is turning out to be an invaluable source of hard-to-find books. Published in 1950, it’s a much-needed compendium of Russian Orthodox writings from nine different periods, going in chronological order from the […]

A book that I have on Orthodox history says, in talking about late 19th- early 20th-century Russia, “As the Russian Church neared the time when it would be put to its severest test, the grace of the Holy Spirit became abundant. Among charismatic Christians a special place belongs to Fr. John of Kronstadt.”
That “specialness” is […]