https://www.circologhislandi.net/en/conferenze/ This morning I watched an interview on cable TV of Antionette Tuff, the woman who talked an armed Georgia young man to give himself up to the police. Up above is a tape of many parts of the conversation she had with the gunman. While parts have been cut out, all the essentials are caught. […]

“I love math jokes. They’re so calculated.” The drawing comes from the Facebook site of George Takei. The quote comes from a comment made on the picture. The name of the author of the quote was withheld for privacy purposes. OK, why does the drawing above spell out pizza?

I like this picture of soldiers attending Orthodox worship or perhaps attending confession. (The royal doors appear to be closed.) It is unclear whether this is in the USA or another country, though I am betting on another country. The camo gear does not appear to be of USA BDU patterns. As well, what appears […]

That which is broken cannot be restored, but You can set aright those whose conscience has become decayed; You restore the soul to its former beauty in those who have lost it beyond all hope. With You there is nothing that cannot be put aright. You are all love. You are the Creator and the […]

You can find the original of the article here. It is your typical science article about a photograph taken by the Cassini spacecraft as it orbits Saturn. The article is actually about the tiny moon, the rings, how Saturn’s moons pass by each other, etc. The point that is being made by the article are […]

“God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.” I saw that quote on Facebook from Bishop Demetri (Antiochian) recently. It is not his quote; it has been around several years. And, it does catch an opinion that is growing among many in the USA. But, what does it mean? Frankly, in today’s United States of America, […]

My wife and I came home yesterday to find a slip from DHL waiting for us. It said that they were sorry that they missed us, but that we have a package that they were unable to deliver. We were surprised as we thought that we had nothing on order that would have been shipped to […]

In this day in which we often hear negative comments about religion, it is good that NPR noted that in the classical music circuit, two of the top album recordings are by nuns. Yes, we live in a confused culture. On the one hand, many of our moral behaviors appear to be going more and […]

Below is a re-post from a post from three weeks ago that I wrote for the Orthodox Christian Network. I think you will enjoy it. ==== Where can you see a Greek Metropolitan speaking with a former atheist science-fiction writer who converted to Roman Catholicism while an American matushka wearing a Rose (Rosie) Cotton flowered […]