Two Natures

With the assistance of my friend Monica, I recently translated four hymns for St. Perpetua and her companions from the Great Synaxarion , ...

For the past five years, this blog has been inactive. My writing and editing skills have been in demand at my church , where I spent four y...

I have long suspected that the advocates of global warming (or climate change or climate disruption or whatever they’re calling it this ye...

Last week, in order to assist us with our spiritual prepartion for Christmas, my bishop  recommended this recording of a Byzantine Nativity...

I have not yet unpacked most of my CDs post-seminary, so I have been borrowing CDs from the local library. Just today I picked up Not To...

I recently came across some images and videos that reconstruct the appearance of Hagia Sophia in the first millennium, when it served as t...

I spent most of my free time last month reading and writing about the Pussy Riot trial . With my background as a Soviet intelligence ana...

Loneliness All over the world, people are alone. Although they live in big cities, among millions of people, still they are alone, because...

Speaking the Truth We know how costly the phrase “Thus says the Lord” was in the Old Testament. People didn’t want to hear it. Kings and p...

After Fr. Luke returned from his most recent visit to Albania, his next several daily meditations opened with short quotations from Metrop...