A World of Speculation

Like the new look?

If you notice anything different, it might be the color pallette here. I’ve been stretching my html skills and this site was a big help in visualizing the colors.

But at least he spelled your name right

It’s probably evidence of my bad character that this amuses me so (or maybe it’s the photo). “Deborah Schoeneman reports that Richard Ford spat on Colson Whitehead (The Intuitionist) at a Poets & Writers party, having nursed a grudge for two...

Blog of the Day

Thanks to Albert McIlhenny for naming this his Blog of the Day for March 15. Albert’s blog looks at issues of the day through the lens of what he calls the historical churches — “as defined in the traditional formularies of the Christian...

More on Bishop Seraphim

To yesterday’s post on Bishop Seraphim, Havdala replies: I loved that post! One of my favourite painters is the Celtic revivalist, John Duncan. Many years ago the Orthodox priest in Edinburgh told me he had met Duncan when he was a child, ‘But of...

Seraphim’s Journal

I just discovered that one of my favorite bishops is blogging at Live Journal. It can be dizzying to follow Bishop Seraphim’s March 13 post from Celtic saints to Bodidharma crossing the Himalyas to planetary scientist Michael Allison to Thomas Merton to Alaska...