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...
Apr 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
The Heretical Commentary: Essay 1 "Why do you live like you're going to die, Alfred?" Heresy comes to mind when I think about the insanity of actually making this internal inquiry public. I'm either losing my mind or actually beginning to get it back...
