All shiny, and new. But when the old ones are rusted on, see…
Sure, the kitten videos are cute, and watching re-runs of MTV is bitchin’, and all, but the video below is proof that God loves us, and wants us to help each other.
Behold! The rusted brake disc removal hack. Roll tape, and enjoy the soundtrack. [Read more…]
UPDATE 6/20/2016: On their website, Jessica Rey Swimwear celebrates the first day of Summer with a 20% Discount code, ICECREAM20. You heard it here first. If you’re not familiar with this brand of swimwear, have a look at the post I wrote three years back.
Better, longer, and more involved posts on modesty, swim suits, and debates surrounding the same can be found at other blogs. Try Marc Barnes, the Holy Fool, Lifeteen, etc., for the dos, don’ts, whys, and wherefores of the perennial bikini controversy. [Read more…]
…a beautiful Greek Orthodox parish church with the mouthful name of The Church of Jesus Christ’s Entry Into The Temple.
I took a couple of photographs with my camera before the battery died. Feast your eyes upon this beautiful sanctuary.
Wait until you see the walls.
What follows are a few snapshots taken while I was in Jordan for the Religious Blogger/Press Tour. I took hundreds of photographs (who doesn’t these days?) and I intend to share them with you here. How about a dozen at a time?
I hope you get a sense of the beauty of both the land, and of the people, in the eastern portion of the Holy Land. Here is the first batch.
View from the patio of the Sufra Restaurant, in Amman. Yes, you can see the stars.
Is this the Shire? Or is it the Holy Land?
See that lovely countryside above? That is where I am headed today. A number of my Patheos colleagues are coming with me, too. [Read more…]
There was a brutal bear market in the Spring of the year 33 AD. Not in wheat or lamb futures, nor in cloth, or precious metals. This was a bear market of the human soul, and it was experienced acutely by the Disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ. [Read more…]
Grigor Narekatsi, Ms. 1568 (1173), Matenadaran, Yerevan, Armenia. Public Domain.
A few days ago, Pope Francis declared St. Gregory of Narek our newest Doctor of the Church. It appears that Grigor Narekatsi is a man of many talents. The hastily compiled list of his accomplishments on Wikipedia includes,
“monk, poet, mystical philosopher, theologian and saint of the Armenian Apostolic Church, born into a family of writers.”
From what I gather, he composed some very beautiful prayers that I look forward to pondering as a part of the Lenten triumvirate of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. [Read more…]
Christmas is coming to the City of David.*
I’ll be honest with you and tell you that yesterday was a very emotional day. And when I say that, I mean emotional in a good way. There were tears, surely. But they were tears of awe, wonder, and joy.
Our pilgrimage wound it’s way through security points and ventured into the City of David. What follows is a little photo essay of what we saw there. [Read more…]
The Dome of the Stella Maris Monastery Church, Haifa, Israel*
Before getting into the meat of this short dispatch that I am typing from Jerusalem, I ask you to say a short prayer to God for the souls of all those who have died for their faith, or due to acts of terrorism, or because of sectarian violence here in the Middle East, and everywhere around the world. [Read more…]
So be thankful for that! Guess what else? There is a Jesuit angle that may unlock the mystery of genius’s religious background.
Writing for the Washington Post, Terence McCoy shares what was found when a First Folio of the Bard’s work was discovered in a French library. Long ago, the metadata it had been catalogued under was in error as to its age, see? [Read more…]
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