Two full-grown men in a huddle of kids And they're tryin' to help them to believe What is too good to be real Yet is more real than ...

From the Lenten Triodion for the Great Vespers of the Sunday of the Prodigal Son: I have wasted the wealth which the Father gave to me, and ...

Rich Mullins used to drive from gig to gig with the radio off in the car. Said he was practicing silence. I think that's probably part...

Went to Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Dallas yesterday to finish up the two-day, pan-Orthodox festival. Lots of "big names...

Re-read the last post...though of changing "cure" to "curb"--which is quite cliché, as well as a hilarious show--but tho...

Some thoughts from the Journals of Fr. Alexander Schmemann: Monday, April 10, 1978: "I feel a kind of fear when faced with activism (o...

Heard Fr. Peter Gilquist speak tonight at the North Texas Festival of Orthodoxy. He spoke on "Finding the New Testament Church"; ...

Yesterday was good in several ways--put in a good (long!) day at school and got much done, had Mom over for dinner with us, relaxed by doing...

OK, so that's...what? Three Rich Mullins references in entry titles in just the first month? Yeah...I like the guy... So the re's ...

Am proud to say I've actually taken on the cliché New Year's Resolution of more exercise and, to this point, kept it...I've take...

¡Es una niña! ¡Te esperamos, "mija!" Today I saw my daughter for the first time. As soon as the image came up--a grainy, squiggli...

I like to argue. More importantly, I like to argue and win. Call it the intellectual equivalent of making someone else look bad to mak...

Some thoughts, sparked by a discussion about Palestine/Israel a few days ago... It's not a popular viewpoint, my railing against thos...

Being the expectant father that I am (y'all are going to be SOOO tired of hearing that after a while, huh?), it has been my joy to read ...

Yes, it's that time again, the time that all teachers look forward to with mixed emotions: INSERVICE! Mixed because, one, we're n...

A Pre-Communion Prayer of St. John of Damascus: I stand before the gates of Thy temple, and yet I refrain not from my evil thoughts. But...

I just read an article (full text is here , from a forum I'm involved with) about the situation of Orthodox converts here in America. Th...

Three-day weekends are supposed to be fun. This sucks. So I'm getting ready for school today and I feel what can only be politely re...

Well, here it is...another blog launched out into cyberspace amongst the already dizzying number of personalities represented online...this ...