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Nemesis wanted

Nemesis wanted

May 19, 2012

Mental imagery in Eastern Orthodox private devotion

Mental imagery in Eastern Orthodox private devotion

May 7, 2012

Saint John Climacus writes in The Ladder that the beginning of prayer consists in chasing away invading thoughts…

Green kitchen

Green kitchen

May 1, 2012

Kitchen with a view. Feels like you’re cooking outside under the trees! (via green renaissance)

Wisdom

Wisdom

Apr 29, 2012

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending and speak without offending.   Source: floating about the Internet for years.</>

Pied Beauty

Pied Beauty

Apr 25, 2012

Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow...

A nun’s prayer

A nun’s prayer

Apr 25, 2012

Lord, Thou knowest better than I know myself that I am growing older and will some day be old. Keep me from the fatal habit of thinking I must say something on every subject and on every occasion...

Scots village Dull to officially twin with US town Boring

Scots village Dull to officially twin with US town Boring

Apr 25, 2012

Today at STV: In a move which is unlikely to set pulses racing, the Perthshire village and the Oregon logging town are discussing linking to become Dull and Boring. Locals from around the Dull area became aware of equally-unfortunately named US town and decided to pursue a formal link-up. More info and dull...

The Therapeutae of Philo, and the Monks as Therapeutae according to Pseudo-Dionysius

The Therapeutae of Philo, and the Monks as Therapeutae according to Pseudo-Dionysius

Apr 25, 2012

In his De Vita Contemplativa the Alexandrian Philo makes an extremely remarkable description of an ascetic community with which he was familiar and which was settled not far from Alexandria...

John Cleese Reading C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters”

John Cleese Reading C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters”

Apr 23, 2012

Great reader for the text? Or best reader for the text?

Modern youth ministry a ’50-year failed experiment,’ say pastors

Modern youth ministry a ’50-year failed experiment,’ say pastors

Apr 23, 2012

A group of pastors and former youth ministry leaders suggest that today's youth ministries should be disbanded...