… and it’s not MTV, according to a recent survey. Thank goodness their audience has a lot more brains than MTV gives them credit for.
NEW YORK - So you’re between the ages of 13 and 24. What makes you happy? A worried, weary parent might imagine the answer to sound something like this: Sex, drugs, […]

Quick plug: Making the rounds, I see that Ancient Faith Radio is going to present readings from “Beginning to Pray” from next Monday (8/27) over the next six Mondays (schedule HERE). Exciting stuff! As I said back here, this is one of my favorites. And more than that, the unique message on how to consider […]

Okay, let’s talk about something really important for a change. What do you call a carbonated beverage? Here’s a hint: You may want to consult this map first. (Click on it to bring up the enlarged version.)

Since I spent a lot of years in California, I thought there was only one answer: a soda. It […]

“Parents love their children excessively. They consider them to be smarter and more beautiful, even if others consider them ugly and absurd. Our mind loves its children excessively — in other words, its thoughts. It considers them to be wise and sensible, even if everyone else considers them absurd.”
– St. Maximos the Confessor

I’m wondering if I can ask for a few names from our church to your prayer list: Nicolae, his daughter Laura and her family.
Laura is a lovely woman from Romania in our church. Her parents came from Romania to visit her for a few months after her second child was born. But the afternoon after […]

I’m old enough to remember when pro-abortionists (it was okay to call them that back then) were still saying what a golden era we were stepping into with Roe v. Wade. It was going to be just wonderful. With mothers blissfully free from doing anything even as complicated as crossing state lines to terminate their […]

It’s very, very hot out, and I’m unpresentable.

When I came home from church, I changed into clothes that were based solely on comfort — none of your bogus aesthetics like appearance or compatibility. So I’ve got on a purple and green shirt whose fabric is so floppy it almost feels like wearing pajamas, tan shorts […]

Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said, “than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers.”
“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him. … Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, […]

I’ve been enjoying a Teaching Company lecture series called “The Search for a Meaningful Past” that presents and compares different “philosophies, theories and interpretations of human history.” It’s been fascinating, but sooner or later when I’m listening I always end up realizing why intellectuals just can’t abide Christian orthodoxy — it spoils all the fun.

Here […]

For those of you sick of the unpredictable quality of YouTube offerings, here’s a valuable resource Greg discovered — a link (HERE) to a plethora of animated short films from Canada. If you haven’t seen any of this quirky Canadian humor before, I’ll list a couple favorites of mine below. (I can’t give you a […]