(This is the kind of meandering post I get when I just mull things over. It always seems to end up in a series of questions, and so I almost deleted the whole thing, figuring that it wouldn’t be a worthwhile read for anyone. But in the end I decided not to, just in case […]

Today in my readings, I read:
The saints of God live even after their death. Thus, I often hear in church the Mother of God singing her wonderful, heart-penetrating song which she said in the house of her cousin Elizabeth, after the Annunciation of the Archangel. At times, I hear the song of Moses; the song […]

We’re experimenting during Orthros with including readings from the Menologian about the saints of the day, and since I think it isn’t the norm, people may not have gotten to hear this this morning. It touched my heart.
On this day we commemorate the Holy Sacred-Martyr Metróphanes Tsi-Chung, Priest of the Orthodox Mission in Peking; his […]

(via Drudge) The Church of England is condemning Sony for a computer game in which Manchester Cathedral is the location for a big shoot-’em-up.
The Church of England accused Sony Corp. (SNE) on Saturday of using an English cathedral as the backdrop to a violent computer game and said it should be withdrawn from shop shelves.
The […]

Our server was attacked by a computer hacker, and this blog might have been affected. Here’s Greg’s explanation for everyone:

Our web host, Dreamhost (www.dreamhost.com) experienced a significant security breach and our FTP login/password was among thousands exposed. The (rather enterprising) hackers managed to attach scripts to every blog we host (and we […]

Well, I’m back in the lower 48 states — or “outside”, as I’ve heard the Alaskans refer to it.
Things I’ve learned:

On an Alaskan cruise, the scenery is really the star. Our ship sailed down narrow inlets most of the time, and mountains rose up on either side of us. On our last day, the captain […]

I try to do one thing on a cruise that I’ve never done before and have some reason to think I’ll never do again. This time it was riding on a dog sled.
We did this yesterday in Skagway. It was one of the excursions that Carnival offered, and once I saw it I just had […]

We’re on Day 3 (or 4?) of our Alaskan cruise, so I knew this morning that we must be in Juneau. But we opted to get a windowless inside cabin on the ship, so I didn’t have any idea how it would look.
Turns out it looks like this:

It’s very pretty in a Great Northwest way […]