Since I’m making the Jamaican Jerk Pork again tonight, I decided to use fresh thyme this time. But the baggie of it I bought has a small bushel of the stuff. I could always just let it dry out and use it up that way, but I kind of hate to lose all the good […]

Steven tagged me as a “thinking blogger.” Like him, I’m inclined to think that getting honors for thinking just means that either we’re all little geniuses or no one is.
So now according to “the rules” (which I’ll reprint at bottom, since that’s rule #2), I’m to turn around and tag five other Thinking Bloggers.
But what […]

Mimi mentioned the confusion over Mormon theology back here, and so it seemed as good a reason as any to look into it a little more.
So here’s the Nicene Creed as we say it every week, as Christians have said since the 4th century to express what we believe. As this author notes:
The Nicene […]

I’ve always felt a little guilty that I didn’t like this icon, called “Christ of Sinai.” It’s obvious from its ubiquity that it is tremendously popular with Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike. But, … the thing with the eyes. What’s with that?
Years ago when I took a secular art class on Iconography, the professor had an […]

Happened to check out Hugh Hewitt’s blog – which I usually like — and felt like he was shaking his finger in my face.
I was a guest on the Fox News Channel this afternoon. The subject was whether or not the new movie about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 would be a problem […]

It’s been raining and raining and raining out our way. It stopped for a while, but now the steady drumbeat on my drainpipes tells me it’s starting up again. It’s the kind of weather where my thoughts turn to baking or soupmaking, but I already bought all the ingredients for Jamaican Jerk Pork Tenderloin, and […]

This is the conclusion to the essay from “Diary of a Russian Priest” that I started earlier. This details the terrible effects that pride has on us when left unchecked. As he progresses, it begins to sound like the spreading of a cancer. The state of someone completely lost to pride, he says, “can scarcely […]

All right, I don’t have an appropriate category heading, but this is just neat-o. Greg sent me this Slash-dot article:
Musicians recently unlocked a 600 year old mystery that had been encoded into the walls of the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland, the one featured in “The Da Vinci Code.” The song was carved into the walls […]

I got to the end of “Diary of a Russian Priest” a while back, which felt like I was losing a friend. And as far as I know there are no other writings of Fr. Elchaninov to be found — “Diary” is comprised of fragments from his diary, some letters, outlines of talks and an […]