Two events happened last Monday that stand juxtaposed for me: Steve Jobs announced that he was taking a medical leave absence from Apple, and a priest at our parish, Fr. Seraphim, died. While journalists and pundits frantically asked and answered…
In the fall of 1956, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech and asked his audience to imagine that St. Paul had penned an epistle to American Christians just as he had done nineteen hundred years before to believers…
How powerful are your thoughts? For better or worse, they are affecting every relationship you have. I am reading for the second time a wonderful book about the life and teachings of a Serbian monk, Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, called…
A rich young ruler comes to Christ and asks what it takes to inherit eternal life. Jesus says, “Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor. . . .” Christ is enthroned in glory and he divides the…
As we get closer to the upcoming elections and hear the many promises tumbling from the mouths of hopeful and desperate office-seekers, we should reflect on Psalm 146. “Put not your trust in princes,” says the psalmist, “in a son…
As many readers here know, Megan and I are adopting. It’s been an interest and passion of ours for some time, and day by day we get closer. Things continue to move. Our homestudy just came in about noon yesterday—thumbs…
On Monday I applied for my passport. I’ve traveled throughout the lower forty-eight, been to this place and that, but I’ve never gone abroad. I hope to go soon. Megan and I are planning on adopting from Uganda. We’re working…
In his book The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis explains how the medieval worldview came to be, what shaped its vices, virtues, and values. Two tributaries fed the medieval mind, Greco-Roman Paganism and Christianity, and the two streams, brackish and sweet,…
To know who you are, you have to know from where you came. As philosopher Richard Weaver put it, “there is no identity without historicity.” The bad news is that Americans—and Westerners in general—are increasingly befogged and amnesic about our…
With the arrival of the Fourth of July, I think it’s worth pointing out the commitment to the cause of Independence that people from many levels of society possessed and expressed. Eloquent and toplofty patriots like Thomas Jefferson and Samuel…
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