Greg sent me this link with his usual brief subject line: Bloggable. He’s right, it is.
Disney has decided not to fund the third Narnia movie. They cite the low returns of ‘Prince Caspian.’ But that last Narnia movie made $419 million worldwide, (compared with the $249 million gross for a non-Christian fantasy movie like ‘Eragon’), […]

This is a re-run of the post I ran last year. But I’m still recovering from Christmas dinner. Besides, it had pretty music to listen to, so what’s not to love?

It’s two days after Christmas now, and the all-Christmas-all-the-time radio stations have all gone back to playing the usual dreck. Have you ever noticed that […]

Praise the Lord …
Giving snow like wool,
Sprinkling mist like ashes,
Casting His ice like morsels; 
Who shall withstand His winter?
 
He shall send His Word and melt them
– Ps. 147:1, 5-7 (LXX)

Our Christmas tree this year is huge, and since it’s in my office, I’ve got a constant view of some of the interesting ornaments I’ve picked up over the years. I was looking fondly at this one, a little reproduction of one of the stone lions outside the art museum in Chicago that gets decorated […]

A church that can no longer hold the 4,000-plus worshippers? Hundreds lined up for the chance to hear a sermon? What’s this, some Bible belt revival? Not unless the Bible belt extends over the Atlantic Ocean*.
Long considered an aggressively secular city, London has quietly become one of Britain’s most Christian areas, going from the least […]

I’ve had three books sitting on my desk for days, waiting patiently till I had time to do a quick review. They are: “The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann 1973-1983″*, “The Brothers Karamazov”** and a totally absurdist romp called “The Areas of My Expertise”*** by John Hodgman. The private thoughts and worries of an Orthodox […]

Looking over the typikon instructions for this Sunday, I briefly noted that again we sing the Kontakion of the Forefeast. I was about to just file that away as a detail, when I started to read it. It really is amazing the wealth of hymnody that we have in the Church. So much so that […]

Worth every penny of what it cost for the world to acquire high-tech computer animation, if it allows us to see an African elephant executing perfect flips on a trampoline:

And back in the real world, here’s the closest that the animal kingdom has really come to that performance. (You get the idea after the first […]