Mimi mentioned the confusion over Mormon theology back here, and so it seemed as good a reason as any to look into it a little more.
So here’s the Nicene Creed as we say it every week, as Christians have said since the 4th century to express what we believe. As this author notes:
The Nicene […]

Finishing up this big foursome, I felt like I had to at least try to define postmodernism and how the fall of the old regime is affecting what culture producers are doing now. For reasons I’ll go into below, the parameters of pomo are a little indistinct, but hopefully this’ll give an idea about it. […]

I was afraid of this — having slept on it, I thought of other things I left out. It seemed to come down to a handful of connected thoughts about Art and others about postmodernism. So I’ll break them out and insert the usual disclaimer that none of this may be worth the time it […]

(This started out life as a book review, but as I started adding in thoughts about the subject, I realized that it was more of a brain-dump of my accrued thoughts from years of having tried to figure out what the heck happened to the once-honorable visual arts — painting, drawing, sculpture. It got lengthy, […]

At this time of year with seasons changing and Lent starting, I’ve had a couple Orthodox insights I’ve heard bouncing around my head. The subject is time and how we perceive its passage.

The same, but different
I can’t believe that we’re coming up on another Cheesefare Sunday. So here we go. This week: omelettes; crepes; mac […]

On April 20 and 21, 2005, Holy Trinity Orthodox Church performed the funeral services required for a priest for Fr. John Platko. The quotes are from those services, and my thoughts are interspersed.
In faith and hope and love,
in meekness and purity and priestly worth,
uprightly you discharged your sacred functions, O memorable one.
Therefore the eternal God […]

In the sixth century, Orthodox monasteries began to circulate the story of St. Mary of Egypt, an illiterate woman with a sinful past whose ascetic labors and gifts surpassed the strictest monastic. She had received no earthly tutoring, lived the majority of her life alone in the deserts of the Holy Land and would’ve died […]