by Jan Bear | Mar 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
Over at Plastic, they’re having an interesting discussion of the decline of English as a first language. Scientists note the eroding population of English speakers and the financial ascendency of such places as India and China. People here in Oregon have been...
by Jan Bear | Mar 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
This isn’t about the Orthodox Church, but it’s funny anyway: “In a spirit of servanthood, GetReligion offers the following template to the presiding bishop, which should assure a sufficient pluriformity of dialogical voices. Each relevant paragraph...
by Jan Bear | Feb 28, 2004 | Uncategorized
Just as I was beginning to think that all Orthodox Christians were nuts, I ran across this piece by John David Powell, The Passion Of The Christless: Interpreting The Words Of Fear, a well-written and well-grounded look at The Passion brouhaha.
by Jan Bear | Feb 28, 2004 | Uncategorized
Greek Orthodox leaders tell flock ‘Passion’ isn’t accurate The sources quoted in this piece exhibit some of the maddening isolationism that so often characterizes the Orthodox. This part is probably a good idea, since so many Orthodox are uninformed...
by Jan Bear | Feb 25, 2004 | Uncategorized
Crime novelist Elmore Leonard joins forces with Mark Twain in Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle. Great advice from two novelists with some characteristics in common–humor, knack for dialogue, fine sense of story. Never mind that...
by Jan Bear | Feb 25, 2004 | Uncategorized
OK, you’ve got to take a look at this week’s Onion Dome: Russian Lander Finds Orthodox Life on Mars, for two reasons: One, because it’s dead-on funny: “In what could be the most earth-shattering news of the past few millenia, Russian scientists...