The New York Times decided to go on one of its occasional forays into the strange world of alien creatures and talked to (ick) religious people. The occasion for this was to do a tremulous read on whether these strange life-forms are reacting positively to Sarah Palin, but I don’t cite the piece to argue […]

Don’t you love the time when you get to change out of the church clothes into your plain old threads? We love the beauty of our Father’s house, but if you’re like me, you’re still pretty happy when you come back home, kick off the fancy shoes and put on the duds you can just […]

Driving home from church, I kept noticing the banks of wild sunflowers at each new rise in the road. They surprise me every year: It’s too late for bunches and bunches of bright yellow sunflowers to appear in every gully, massing out of weedy grass like something in a pop-up book. Shouldn’t they be a […]

Trying to catch up on the Ortho-blogosphere, I followed one blogger’s comments (can’t remember which one now — sorry) to this short introduction to Orthodoxy given by Fr. Basil Calderone of St. John the Baptist Antiochian Orthodox Church in Post Falls, Idaho. I thought he did an excellent job of quickly going over the missing […]

From Daily Lives and the OCA site: A little bit about St. David of Hermopolis in Egypt, a saint commemorated today. Maybe the story’s not that unusual. I just never heard of a saint entering the monastic life by issuing death threats.

Like St. Moses the Ethiopian, David was at first the leader of a murderous […]

Value the time; it is irretrievable. Take more heed to yourself, for your struggle consists of this.
– St. Leo of Optina

I’m looking at a wonderful thing — a real live errand-free Saturday. Maybe I can relieve the gentle pressure on my brain by getting out all the blog posts that have been backing up in my head. Maybe then I’ll know which ones were worth the trouble of expressing and which weren’t. Maybe I’ll be […]

All right, I’m going to apologize in advance. Because although the YouTube video below made me laugh so hard I cried, and though it also has something in it for both sides of the political spectrum, it has some bad words in it — one F, an S and a GD — and some other […]

I’m taking in the Republican convention and Fred Thompson is giving a speech. Just a minute ago, he echoed my thoughts on Sarah Palin.
She is a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment. She has run a municipality and she has run a state. And I can say without fear […]

I can’t say how totally pleased I’ve been since Saturday hearing that McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. She’s an absolutely fabulous pick, and I think it’s just hysterical how much the Democrats don’t get that. Heck, there were Republicans who didn’t get it, apparently, judging from the pressure McCain was getting from […]