Is it just me? I find this video strangely touching. How hard we try to find the things that are absolutely universal to people everywhere, and it turns out, all we want to do is dance a little bit. (Sorry about the h-word, folks. Obviously not titled by us good church-going types.)

Where the Hell is […]

This article (via Orthodox Today) is an interview with a French filmmaker about a documentary he made on the plight of Christians living in the Middle East.
There is much in the article to give us pause (”… They used priests, monks and nuns as human shields. They behaved like barbarians. But nobody reported the […]

I think I’m a little late discovering this 2006 movie, but just in case there are any other Orthodox (or Orthodox-inclined) out there who haven’t done so already: rent the Russian film “The Island.” It’s a must-see type of thing, telling the story of a monk who became a ‘fool for Christ.’ It’s not based […]

The saint of the day today is Venerable Sioes the Great, who once raised a man’s son from the dead without really meaning to(!)

Reading the troparion this morning, I got curious about St. Sisoes. So when I got home I looked him up on the OCA Website
Saint Sisoes the Great (+ 429) was a solitary […]