s-p has a candidate for the worst music video ever, and he may be right (check it out HERE).
But are you ready for some juicy Bollywood goodness? It’s not in English, but when you see those big-budget production values and that gripping story line, you’re sure to say that some things transcend the boundaries of […]

In devoting so much of yesterday’s post to the subject of morality, I realized I needed a reminder of what I discovered back HERE: If you make morality an end in itself, rather than a means to an end, you’ll be worse off than if you hadn’t even tried to do the right thing.
Or, to […]

Since I was just talking t’other day about the dreaded m-word (sh! the m-word is morality. sh!), I was interested to see this quote from John Adams in a Fourth of July newspaper ad:
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made […]

I have some big-thinky stuff that I want to try to get around to, but before then, let’s take a moment for a streetcar ride.

Here’s Market St. in San Francisco in 1906, four days before the great earthquake. It’s seven minutes long, but I found it kind of relaxing to have on, since you just […]

I considered trying to wear red, white and blue to church yesterday. Would it have been inappropriate? I couldn’t quite decide.
There’s no doubt I would’ve gotten brownie points for patriotism. But is American independence worth celebrating in an Orthodox place of worship? I’ve heard some Orthodox speak as though it’s not, but I’m not […]

When it comes to Orthodox evangelism, I wonder if we’re missing the point.

I was handed a pamphlet on a street corner a couple years ago. The title was something like “Do YOU know where YOU’RE going after you DIE???” I looked it over, and it struck me that it had some strange ideas about who […]