on the temple doorstep

That article I mentioned about men and Orthodoxy has been published. I don't see it yet on beliefnet, but Frederica has a copy on her b...

Recently I was asked to contribute some thoughts to an article about men and Orthodoxy. There's no particular distinction in that--I was...

In his fourth homily on Hannah, St. John discusses at length the practical application of frequent prayer: Blessed David also practised [pra...

In St. John Chrysostom's second homily on Hannah, he writes: But how is it that the text says that "she continued" her prayer?...

Several years back I discovered C. S. Lewis's novel Till We Have Faces --an adaptation of a Greek myth about Psyche, who though mortal i...

I want to start out by clarifying the tone of my title here. It's not an exasperated exclamation, but a thoughtful and honest inquiry. I...

In the lengthy excerpt that follows, Solzhenitsyn recounts two trials related to the famine in the Volga region after the Russian Civil War....

. . . the 2003 movie, that is. Julie put it in our Netflix queue at some point, and we received it about seven weeks ago. I was interested i...

At some point this summer, I picked up a copy of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary ...

I'm continuing to plod my way slowly through John Cassian's Conferences . The saint's life spans the fourth and fifth centuries,...

The pastor at Bethany has a habit of referring to common Christian practices as more or less universal, except that we don't practice th...

After church at Bethany yesterday, I was thinking about one of the choruses we'd sung and how much it bothered me. I was debating in my ...

As long as I'm getting back on the horse, I may as well dig in a bit with two posts in one day. Besides, with the random collection of t...

I haven't written much lately, have I? I was home for three weeks after Jenna's birth, and although I only worked a few hours each d...

Four months ago, I started something and then quickly dropped it. I said I was going to spend time critiquing some of my own past writings...