Archive for January, 2010

How to make a BBC segment

January 29th, 2010 ~ Just a bit of fun

Okay, this is going to seem like an abrupt departure, because I’ve been on a serious tack of late. But whenever Greg sends me anything that makes me laugh till I cry, I figure that I’m doing us hard-working Christians a favor by letting us lighten up.
So behold your easy-to-follow instructions for producing your own […]

Egyptian darkness

January 28th, 2010 ~ Orthodox perspective

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When praying with people, we sometimes have to pierce through with our prayer as if it were the hardest wall — human souls, hardened and petrified by earthly passions — to penetrate the Egyptian darkness, the darkness of passions and worldly attachments. This is why it is sometimes difficult to pray. The simpler the people […]

Taking another look at “Wind in the Willows”

January 23rd, 2010 ~ Potpourri for 100, Alex, Books

Finding out that there was an annotated “Wind in the Willows,” I just had to put it on my Christmas wish list. I had been assuming that even though other annotated classics have turned out to be disappointments, there was no way anyone could ruin “Wind in the Willows.” Right?
Wrong. But the book did give […]

Moses and the fox

January 18th, 2010 ~ Orthodox perspective

Brief intro: A Facebook friend chided me for my blogging laxity (shout-out to C. Sue, who is stangely fond of getting mentioned in the blog) — and I told her I had been busy. That’s only partly true. I wrote this entry over a week ago, but for some dumb reason I decided it really […]

Keeping in real in ‘10

January 3rd, 2010 ~ Just a slice of heaven, Orthodox perspective

Well, if my New Year’s Resolution had started off with better church attendance, I’d have been thwarted right off the bat. More snow fell last night and this morning, and our intended trip to church became a very quick trip with a very slow U-turn in it. Not an entirely wasted effort, because if I […]


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