I know it’s hardly the thing to consider taking in a movie during Holy Week, but if by any chance you can find the time, you might want to find out if “The Last Mimzy” is playing near you, because I suspect it won’t be in theaters long. I mean, here’s a movie about children […]

It’s been muggy and damp here. Spring has officially come and I’ve got the steamed up windows to prove it. And of course I’ve got new growth muscling its way out of the tangled detritus of my disreputable garden. I thought it was nice for the Bleeding Hearts to bloom just in time for Holy […]

A couple Sundays ago, my priest asked all the children to sit close to the front of the church. After service, he brought up one of the “Food for Hungry People” cans we distribute during Lent to collect change in. He reminded them that the money we put in there gets brought into church at […]

So what do you do in a musical family when you’ve got four musicians, four bows and only one cello?
Apparently, you do Ravel’s Bolero for eight hands.

(By the way, as BJohnD noted, the “Burqa Blue” video a couple posts back is no longer available to be embedded. Don’t know what the deal is there, but […]

It seems strange to read that the French recently outlawed gay marriage. (Via Orthodoxy Today):
Paris, France (AHN) - In a landmark ruling, France’s highest court ruled the first marriage by a homosexual couple in the country was unlawful, thereby annulling the June, 5 2004 union between the two men. …
France’s Supreme Court, which ruled that […]

(I am really technologically challenged. I found this old post and published it, but since I didn’t update the date stamp it didn’t come to the top of the posts. I think people with RSS feed might have found out about it, but for those not blessed with RSS, I thought I should fix my […]

I don’t know what’s up with me these days. I’ve been in this kind of funk and I can’t figure out why. There doesn’t seem like any reason for it that I can figure out, but I’m finding that a general negativity is pervading my thoughts, making ordinary tasks difficult and difficult tasks seem downright […]

I found this article on Townhall talkiing about the possibility of Fred Thompson running for president, and sent it on to Greg, because he had just been telling me recently what a good candidate Thompson would be. I hadn’t heard of him before, but Greg’s opinion squares with this columnist’s:
It is a major development because […]

As you’d imagine, women in uptight Afghanistan aren’t really supposed to play music or sing songs. Much less are they supposed to compose kickin’ little songs about their head-to-toe covering called a burqa, which in Afghanistan are sky-blue. But 25-year-old Nargiz did that and got some friends to help. Behold the burqa-clad girl band doing […]

In case you weren’t offended enough by “The Lost Tomb of Christ,” this blog post from Michael Medved indicates that the “Easter Surprise” is on its way.
I’ve been working on a major column for USA TODAY (it’s slated to run in the newspaper on Monday) about the Discovery Channel documentary “The Lost Tomb of Jesus.” […]