by Jan Bear | Apr 12, 2004 | Uncategorized
Holy Week was wonderful, as always–a pageant of backstory, flashback and foreshadowing, building tension, great poetry, strong and frequently conflicted characters, the Hero’s Journey. An Orthodox Jew came to the Holy Saturday Vigil Liturgy, because a...
by Jan Bear | Apr 4, 2004 | Uncategorized
I owe you this one. I saw The Passion this evening and give it a 2 (out of 4). I liked the languages and the costumes. I like the fact that someone in Hollywood has produced a religiously serious movie. I like the fact that it has engendered so many discussions. But ....
by Jan Bear | Apr 3, 2004 | Uncategorized
I won’t be blogging this week as we finish our journey to Pascha. Brethren, let us love the Bridegroom and prepare our lamps with care, shining with the virtues and right faith; that, like the wise virgins of the Lord, we may be ready to enter with Him into the...
by Jan Bear | Apr 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
Bioethicist and Orthodox priest Father John Breck talks about having to put a beloved dog to sleep. After Father Breck and his wife rescued and lived with Poker for several years, the dog developed kidney failure with no real chance for improvement. They made the...
by Jan Bear | Apr 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
A new site is offering recordings of copyright-free classics for under a dollar. Call it iTunes for lovers of the spoken word. Telltale Weekly has “A Dog’s Tale” by Mark Twain, “Give me Liberty or Give Me Death” by Patrick Henry,...