More from Fr. Alexander Schmemann’s“Journals.” Writing in 1977, he mused concerning the trend he saw of a restless spirit taking hold of people, making them insist that everyone had to change their lives … “but how and where is never explained.” Father A. answers the question they’re not asking (boldface emphasis mine):
That explanation will remain […]

Faith is the assent of the soul to a truth.
– St. Cyril of Jerusalem

I don’t usually involve myself completely in the pro-life issue, because it’s too terrible to think about for very long. How do you try to reach people when they’ve heard everything? What can you say that hasn’t been said before? How do you tell them these are nascent human beings and not trash to dispose […]

This YouTube video is titled “Ninja cat comes closer without moving!” I challenge any cat-owner not to laugh at this. Or non-cat-owner either, come to think of it.

I’m really kind of glad the whole world of YouTube videos opened up. Cat people used to have an impossible time trying to convey just how hilarious […]

The word ’superstition’ has come to be a handy code word. By employing it strategically, a whole new generation of atheists has been able to describe any beliefs that can’t be proved by empirical evidence, from belief that Jesus Christ was the Son of God to the Loch Ness monster to lucky horseshoes. In lumping […]

I’m kind of hoping I can encourage a bunch of you to join an Orthodox Lending Team on Kiva. I know that these days we’re asked to give in about a million ways, (not to mention the number of times you don’t have two nickels to rub together) but you can get into this for […]

Here’s the answer to the question, “What can you do with hundreds of thousands of post-it notes?”

EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

I shouldn’t complain about what we’ve been getting of the hurricane weather. Goodness knows, it’s wreaking havoc further south. Up here in Missouri, all we have to put up with is rain and rain and rain. And rain.
This’ll make my priest cranky. Father Elias goes out to the construction site to oversee the building of […]

On this seventh anniversary of 9/11, I’m reprinting a post I did on 9/11/2005, when the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was in the news. A little bit about a saint that most people only know by the icon that hangs in their kitchen. And — for those industrious souls who make it all the way […]

I’m reading through “The Journals of Fr. Alexander Schmemann 1973-1983″(*) and I got to an entry about the essential differences — along with relative strengths and weaknesses — about being American and being European. Born in Estonia, living for many years in Paris and eventually an American citizen, he may be one person qualified to […]