“Modern civilization was produced by a creative effort of humanity, not only independent of, but often contrary to, the law of God. It acquired solid, robust, anti-religious forms, invested with an alien spirit which is hostile to us.
“How shall we solve this problem, we who want to live in accordance with God’s law, yet do […]

Self-denial, which is so often mentioned in connection with the practice of Christianity, is conceived by some as an end in itself; they look upon it as the essential point of every Christian’s life. But it is only a way and a means for achieving our end — the putting on of Christ.
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Channel-flipping last night, I caught a National Geographic program proposing to delve into the mysteries of the Book of Revelation. It reminded me that I’ve been meaning to blog about the same thing. And I’m uniquely qualified because I’ve now read through it about three times in my lifetime.
That may not sound like much, but […]

Well, I just commented that this really is a good movie in spite of my criticism below, and as if to make my point, I find that there are lots of little odds and ends about it that seemed worthy of their own blog entry. How’s that for an endorsement?
(In case it needs to be […]

I recently rented “The Hours” from Netflix. It’s an elegant, poignant weaving together of three women’s lives — Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) circa 1921, a Los Angeles housewife named Laura Brown (Julianne Moore) circa 1951 and a New York editor named Clarissa Vaughn (Meryl Streep) circa 2001.
I’m not going to try to do a decent […]

The e-mail I get from the Wall St. Journal opinion analysts had some points about the election similar to mine, except, y’know, better and less crass. (Show-offs!) I promise to get off the political stuff for a while after this, but here is a list from James Taranto of what was good about yesterday’s results:

Republicans […]

Well, it sure is a bad day to be the most Republican-inclined woman on the Ortho-blogosphere.
I had been sort of hoping it just wouldn’t be as bad as the polls were leading us to believe. So on top of all the other indignities, I have to start believing polls now? Ugh.

It’s worth remembering, of course, […]

Someone from church sent me this. It might have already made the rounds somewhere, but I hadn’t seen it before. And I’m going to number it just so I can own up to which ones I’m the most guilty of.
You know you’re Orthodox if …

On Wednesdays and Fridays you eat Japanese food.
You are more comfortable […]

Quick stopover in Philadelphia. I’ve just got one day in town after a friend’s wedding — just time enough to see Constitutional stuff, eat some Tastycakes and help protect Benjamin Franklin’s gravestone.

Mr. & Mrs Loud request the honor …
This portion of the trip started off a little strange. We checked in at nearly midnight […]