Feb 29, 2012

“Knowing where your food comes from” is a foodie slogan today – but when bakery hygiene became a plank in anti-immigration propaganda, it was a public-relations coup for industrial food.

Feb 28, 2012

To make a point about meth being easier and more hassle-free to obtain than an ordinary nasal decongestant, here's a handy how-to on synthesizing Sudafed from meth.

Feb 27, 2012

Contrary to what many think or feel, Lent is a time of joy. It is a time when we come back to life. It is a time when we shake off what is bad and dead in us in order to become able to live with all the vastness, all the depth, and all the intensity to which we are called.

Feb 23, 2012

Pleasure is exciting. Happiness is transcendent. More importantly, pleasure is dopamine. And happiness is serotonin.

Feb 23, 2012

As a historical matter, the churches that have excluded Lent have not replaced it with a permanent atmosphere of joy...

Feb 14, 2012

The improbable emergence of Ethiopian churches in Jamaica is little known...

Feb 13, 2012

I understand that you are on the way to becoming Orthodox. Before we go any further, there is one point I should make clear...

Feb 7, 2012

It is good to have a dream so long as you do not let it gnaw at the substance of your present.

Feb 4, 2012

God does not come and go – your attention does.

Feb 4, 2012

(via mishappenings: lookatthisfrakkinggeekster: dinnerinthedarkroom: fyeahjewishmen: tumblingnoodle:...