The more that happens and becomes clear to me, the less there is to say. It would be easy to speak of the unease I feel at certain trends in the Church; far more difficult to speak of the immeasurable river of grace I find there. Easy to criticize individual or parish or even jurisdictional examples of Orthodox Christians forgetting to some extent that they are the Church (and not a social club or a foundation for the preservation of culture or a center of activism for some favorite “issue”… Read more Reflection →
My dear readers, Forgive the incoherence that follows; hopefully it explains itself. We celebrated Epiphany a day early for various reasons. I botched the early part of the Liturgy; all… Read more Exhaustion, Grace, Sons, and Chanting…Not Necessarily In That Order →
Well, it’s obvious that this blog in its present format has been more or less squeezed out of my life. I’ve become actually busy, something I thought would never happen to someone like me. Normally what would happen at this point is that I’d shut the blog down and then months from now when I became especially excercised about some new issue or felt that I’d moved on to a new stage in my life I would open a new blog. I think I’m done with that pattern. Nearly twenty-seven… Read more A New Blog in an Old Space; Also, Washing Dishes Like A True Heroine →
Slow Literature 