Jun 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
A Parableby an Orthodox Christian priest who has just returned from an ecumenicalgathering of largely Evangelical clergy. Once there was a starving man who found a field of potatoes, and finding the potatoes, he found life. Potatoes alone were enough to...
Jun 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations to the Annual Nicean Club Dinner (Lambeth Palace, 9 September 2010) Your Grace, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, At the outset, I...
Jun 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being. Kafka’s Diaries In the year he died, the Trappist monk and best-selling author, Thomas Merton, published an essay addressed to...
May 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
Ben Ferencz website: http://www.benferencz.org/ Ben Ferencz Interview: http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=1921021571 Benjamin Ferencz is a 92-year-old U.S. citizen and American combat soldier during World War II. He served as...
May 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
From A Timbered Choir, 1991:1 (p. 125-6). The year begins with war.Our bombs fall day and night,Hour after hour, by deathAbroad appeasing wrath,Folly, and greed at home.Upon our giddy towerWe’d oversway the world.Our hate comes down to killThose whom we do not...
Apr 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Song of Solomon 2 “11 See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. 12 Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. 13 The fig tree forms...
