by Jan Bear | Mar 14, 2004 | Uncategorized
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...
by Jan Bear | Mar 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
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...
by Jan Bear | Mar 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
Japanese school girls are part of what may be a trend as they read a new novel on their cell phones. An entrepreneurial genius named Yoshi delivers the romantic novel about 17-year-old Ayu in small daily installments: Mobile phones can receive e-mail of up to 1,600...
by Jan Bear | Mar 12, 2004 | Uncategorized
Friend and fellow blogger Karl comments on yesterday’s post: “”And by next week most of the world will have forgotten and ‘moved on.'” It’s true, of course, “most of the world.” A lot of it never stopped in the first...
by Jan Bear | Mar 10, 2004 | Uncategorized
St. Vladimir’s Seminary assistant professor Peter C Bouteneff is so eloquent in his review of Gibson’s The Passion that I can’t let it pass unnoted. Money quote: Yet in a time when the top five grossing films were “The Passion of the...
by Jan Bear | Mar 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
The Onion Dome has more than just a twist this week. Our intrepid editor reports that Patriarch PATRIARCHUS the Nth insists that he did not have a wardrobe malfunction when he showed the Turks what he really thought of them. Our man in Moscow caught “the...