A World of Speculation

Suffering child

There’s a lot going on in the world — stuff I would blog about, stuff I would leave to others, stuff that’s important or funny or both — but when your kid is suffering, it doesn’t seem to matter. If you’re praying people, and I...

Fitzgerald’s film-writing career

Not. A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s screenplays goes to the University of South Carolina after being dug out of a file cabinet in Warner Brothers Studios somewhere. (I have an image of the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones sees where the...

The Onion Dome is up

I neglected to mention that The Onion Dome is up. Our intrepid editor has a story about the, shall we say, dark underside of Pascha. I reported on an Orthodox answer to Left Behind, and Marie told of the triumph over sexism in her parish. Father Vasiliy gives us the...

Silmarillion in 1,000 words

I’ve confessed recently to a short attention span. It was longer, once upon a time, and I’m glad I took the opportunity when I had it to read the Silmarillion. If my attention span ever gets longer again, I might read it again. In the meantime, J. the...

A virtual gathering of the female Orthobloggers

Karl expresses happiness that so many Othodox women are joining the blogosphere. He helpfully lists a few of them (us). I know that we women are taking a little longer to warm up to the blog forum than the guys. I think it’s a technology thing. Heaven knows, if...