Posts from the ‘Culture’ Category
Remember how Carrie Bradshaw always used to end up typing questions that had no answers on her laptop? Do you ever feel like that in your prayer life?
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Sorry I haven’t been doing much here lately. I’ve been unusually busy for once, putting in long hours that didn’t allow for much blogging. Any time in the past few weeks that Greg has called and asked what I’m doing, I’ve answered “What else? Drawing altar boys.” That sounds pretty weird, and it’s even weirder to […]
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I go back and forth with Facebook, like a lot of people (Steve, for one). I was typically late getting into it and since then I seem to always either be excited about the good stuff or fed up with the bad. It’s a way to keep up with people I don’t see much anymore, […]
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The perception is that Obama’s supposed compromise on his ill-received HHS ruling amounted to him capitulating to religious opposition. But if he gave in, why do I feel so insulted?
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This was my first blog post for Orthodox Christian Network’s revamped blog called The Sounding. I was glad to have the chance to talk about something I noticed when I watched the last Harry Potter movie. I wonder if anyone else noticed it … There’s nothing new in pop culture about re-enacting the ultimate battle […]
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Watched a fascinating History Channel program last night on the Kennedy assassination and the flurry of conspiracies that have persisted about it. I found this interesting, because I did get a little caught up in the study of the inconsistencies — courtesy of a silly little do-it-yourself JFK conspiracy “kit” I came across in the […]
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The Advent season begins today, and not a moment too soon, eh? I had complained in past years about what the buying market does to Christmas — I think every Christian does. In my lifetime, I’ve seen the itchy sales pitches go from being background noise that started after Thanksgiving to being a truly obnoxious […]
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Here’s the essay I did for Melinda’s series of Orthodox artists and writers, My mother tells me that one of the real benefits that I offered to a weary parent (I was the last of four children) was that if you put me in a room with a pencil and paper, I could amuse myself […]
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I’ve been writing an essay for Melinda for a while — she was kind enough to ask me to contribute to her series about Orthodox writers, artists and composers — and I had a leftover thought about culture that didn’t seem to fit anywhere. And what else is a blog for if not to be […]
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A little Thursday round-up, since none of these quite merits a post all its own: Global warming setback: polar bears might not be dying: — The scientist who made the polar bear the unofficial poster child from manmade global warming is on leave and being investigated for “scientific misconduct,’in part over the integrity of those findings. […]
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