Posts from the ‘Books and Tea’ Category
I’m looking at a wonderful thing — a real live errand-free Saturday. Maybe I can relieve the gentle pressure on my brain by getting out all the blog posts that have been backing up in my head. Maybe then I’ll know which ones were worth the trouble of expressing and which weren’t. Maybe I’ll be […]
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Came across this information in a tea catalog I get. I thought it was worth knowing that there’s an easy way to remove a lot of the caffeine from any tea without impacting the flavor. I plan on giving it a try. Not today, maybe, because today I need that caffeine, but … sometime. Teas […]
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I finished reading “Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett, and I was really conflicted about whether to say anything about it or not. It’s a hot-selling fictional treatment of how a 12th century English cathedral might have been built. That could have been a great book … heck, judging by the sales, a lot […]
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I tried to make my way through “The Pilgrim’s Regress” again, armed with “Finding the Landlord: A Guidebook to C. S. Lewis’ Pilgrim’s Regress.” I thought it would help me unravel all the esoteric allegories. I’d love to report that it did, but … nope. I still only partly understand who Mr. Sensible and the […]
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Ugh! I had just been boasting to Greg that I hadn’t had a cold in a long time when whammo. The Theophany troparion hadn’t left my mind before some nasty germs decided to take up residence in my poor old body. As things have progressed, my head has gotten stuffier and my voice has gotten […]
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More fun from a collection of his essays in this book. This essay is called “On the Transmission of Christianity” and was a preface to a book published in 1946 called “How Heathen is Britain?” The theme of how in the world Christians can hope to pass on the faith in a culture that seems […]
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It’s a rainy morning, thank goodness. And the temperature feels like the high-70′s, a sign that just maybe we’ve turned that corner. The suspense was killing us, but it looks like we might just make it out of the ghastly, muggy dead of summer after all. The dog didn’t want to go out this morning. Wet […]
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Finished “HP and the Deathly Hallows”. And this is what I can say safely opine on without giving away anything for those who haven’t read it yet:
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It seems certain that I’m going to start quoting this one as I did with “Diary of a Russian Priest” so I might as well give a bit of introduction and information to anyone who isn’t already familiar with this Orthodox gem. “My Life in Christ” is a volume full of snippets from a short paragraph […]
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My priest sent out an e-mail of the liturgical schedule all the way up to Pascha, thus cementing the feeling that Lent is coming along way too fast this year. It makes me start thinking about a good book to read through Lent. Last year I read Frederica’s “First Fruits of Prayer: A Forty-Day Journey Through […]
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