Mar 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO (Russian Poet 1933 – 1997) In 1941 my mother took me back to Moscow. There I saw my enemies for the first time. If my memory is right, nearly twenty thousand German war prisoners were to be marched in a single column through...
Mar 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Last year Ron Dart suggested that the Contemplative Order of the Sons of the Holy Cross should read and reflect on T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday during Lent. I did as was suggested and found the poem was insightful in a manner that I could not grasp immediately (on...
Feb 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Is there a literal hell where the depraved are punished after they die? If so, what is it like? Is there a literal heaven where the righteous go after death? If so, what is it like? These are rhetorical questions that have been debated by sincere people who desire to...
Feb 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Address by His All-HolinessEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomewafter the Divine Liturgyon the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee (February 13, 2022) Call for Peace in Ukraine * * * Honorable Consuls General, Beloved children in the Lord, On this Sunday,...
Feb 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
This is a term worth knowing— “jury nullification.” It basically means a jury has the inherent power to nullify the legal guilt of any defendant when they sit in judgment. Simply put, they don’t have to convict, no matter how much the evidence points to the...
Feb 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Nahum: Faithful Prophet with a Fatal Flaw (as they all had). Kelvin Redmile Nahum was a faithful prophet who saw the “word of the Lord” come true – but how and in what way did it come to pass. Let’s read the book from the end to the beginning so we are reading...
