After giving “Pilgrim’s Regress” a bit of a thumbs-down review, I’ve been finding that some snatches and excerpts of it keep coming back to me. Recently, I was having to do time-consuming, repetitive chores to get a stack of documents to print correctly, and I found myself thinking of what John’s angelic helper tells him […]

In the previous blog post, I typed my e-mail address in incorrectly because … well, see the subject line above for details. I have fixed it in that post, but if anyone e-mailed me and didn’t get a reply, my apologies and please try me again at goodnightgrace2006@gmail.com

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The Lord, before His incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared — the most wise, all-powerful Physician and Helper. When men hungered and thirsted after righteousness as it grew weaker, then the Everlasting Righteousness came.
– St. John […]

“Daily Lives” had an interesting commemoration for today that wasn’t on the OCA Website: it’s the consecration of the Church of the Resurrection in the Holy City:
Emperor Constantine and his mother Helen built this church and had it consecrated in the year 336. However, the Persians set fire to it and destroyed it in 614. […]

Since Steven is being so bold as to open up the photo album and publish the contents, I can play along. I happened across this school picture from 1975.

Now, I just have a couple things to say, most of them to Greg, who is a Baby Buster (born in ‘65, after the Boom) and so […]

Sorry about the lack of blogginess. I’ve been kind of busy, but also just going through one of those times when I sort of wonder if I need to keep blogging. In the end, I decided that I should ( — obviously — ), but it makes me remember a recent article that indicated that […]

Today the Church commemorates St. John of Kronstadt, and so I was curious to see what the day’s readings in “My Life in Christ” would offer up. It seemed very fitting that several reflections centered on prayer, as indeed it was fitting that my gospel reading included the verse, “Now in the morning, having risen […]

I still have a few leaves of basil left on my puny little basil plant, which is just as well. When I was giving this recipe for what to do with fresh basil, I forgot my other favorite — a quick little pizza with a lot of good stuff in it.

It’s just something I came […]

On our short trip to Chicago, I managed to get to the Lincoln Park Zoo with the sketch book and the camera. I had in mind that I would sketch more and photograph less, but the animals didn’t cooperate much with that plan. All the same, I managed to get a couple goodies. Even slightly […]