by Jan Bear | Mar 27, 2004 | Uncategorized
I’ve got a lot of stuff to do today, but I want to report my favorite line from the Akathist Hymn last evening: “Eloquent orators we see dumb as the fishes in thy presence, O Theotokos, . . . .” It goes on to make profound theological points, but I...
by Jan Bear | Mar 26, 2004 | Uncategorized
Harper’s Magazine gives a helpful list of “theme funerals” (“staging areas”) for that loved one whose identity was something outside himself. Was he a pilot? Rent a hangar at the local airport and have local pilots fly out of the hangar...
by Jan Bear | Mar 26, 2004 | Uncategorized
Lena, the Chernobyl ghost town biker, has brought up her site again with more pictures, sharper design, and the same eerie and compelling story. The photo shown here is cropped down from one of hers. I picked this up from The Politburo Diktat.
by Jan Bear | Mar 25, 2004 | Uncategorized
My friend Jenny Schroedel’s new book is out from St Vladmir’s Seminary Press. The Blackbird’s Nest is the story of St. Kevin, who spent Lent like a tree, holding up a blackbird’s nest. I’ve read earlier versions of the...
by Jan Bear | Mar 25, 2004 | Uncategorized
Andrew Stephen Damick tells why I became Orthodox in “Notes towards a Definition of Orthodox Christian English Literature,” for the Fellowship of St. Caedmon. It sounds weird, maybe heretical, even to me, converting on the basis of a literary...