I was Facebooking today when I ran across a post in which an Orthodox Christian wished Memory Eternal to someone who had died. The Orthodox blogosphere struck within the first two comments. The person was promptly reprimanded for daring to pray Memory Eternal on behalf of a non-Orthodox. In full dudgeon, the poster accused the […]

It has long been noted that Dracula has strong Anglican religious overtones, from its use of sacraments in a High Anglican way to its persistent use of consecrated objects to hold back the tides of Dracula.1 It has also been seen as an example of the inter-Anglican fight between Low Church and High Church advocates.2 […]

Many of us have heard or been told about, the experiment in which supposedly Coca-Cola was used to dissolve a nail in four days. I know that I first heard of it as a teenager. This experiment was supposed to show us that Coca-Cola was bad for us to drink, and how it would damage […]

Memés have become a favorite way to communicate on social media along with the short spicy tweet. But, that creates a problem. To reduce a complex problem to a 160-word summary almost always leads to a misrepresentation of the problem. And, that representation is always in favor of a position in which you believe and […]

I am only very slowly beginning to understand why throughout the entire Scriptures and in Holy Tradition there is a warning about how you ought to relate to other people. Though I do not agree on most things with Nietzsche, yet I am coming to heartily agree with the quote below. Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, […]

In spite of it all, we built a solid friendship, within the boundaries allowed by the cultural expectations of master/mistress/maid. We bent a few of the boundaries and she learned to flex with us. But, we had to learn to not break the cultural boundaries just because they were different than ours. We left on […]

Lately there have been two cases that have strongly pointed out why it is so important to have a clear investigation of the facts before drawing conclusions. Both started out appearing to be one type of crime while quickly morphing into another type of crime. The first one is the case of the Covington Catholic […]