Archbishop Saint John (Maksimovich) At Saint Herman’s in Minneapolis (my beloved OCA parish here in the Twin Cities), the southeast corne...

This past week, a camp of Romani outside the city of L’vov was attacked by a gang of fascist hooligans. One Roma teenager was killed. Eig...

I have rarely had the feeling that, in translation, I was getting less than half of the meaning implied in a work. But such was the case wit...

Nine years ago I started this blog specifically as a Peace Corps journal named Matt’s Existential Musings , and it’s kept me company in vari...

Wen Tiejun 溫鐵軍 I don’t think I’ve gushed on this blog yet about how awesome Dr Wen Tiejun 溫鐵軍 is. Allow me to do so now. Wen Tiejun, a c...

One of the complaints that Socrates’ critics – especially the elder Athenian statesmen and Sophists, and this is particularly significant ...

But she that shall endure to the end , the same shall be saved .