Love of Child

I suppose that all natural human loves can be images of and partakers in Divine Love. It’s only just come to me how a parents’ love really does so.
In a happy marriage there is no need of a child to bring any completion or fulfil any lack within the relationship. The the man and the woman [...]

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And Forgive Us Our Trespasses

I used to think that to forgive someone was to release them from an obligation they had incurred by wronging me. Such a definition is easy to formulate and fits neatly into certain elegant theories about right and wrong. However, I think that what is more true is that we are all, already, under measureless obligation to forgive [...]

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Poem XIV

I
White wine wonders
red wine knows
(give me Blue for the morning rose)
Fly down, Angel
with your steel nose
plant
steel
seeds
in stuttering rows.
(The democrat hardly knows
what is going when it goes.)
II
To your parents, Last,
but your sons call you First;
First of your kind,
the tall, gray, Cursed
Of whom, pray, will the Judge demand:
Why did this boy die of thirst?
White Wind wanders
Red Poppy [...]

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The Gods, Face to Face

Today I finished reading C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces. I first read it a few years ago and was almost completely bewildered by it. Yet I have no doubt it helped make me Orthodox.  Now it provides endless material for cogent, deep thought.
It’s funny. You don’t really understand something; but it makes you more Orthodox. [...]

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A Rather Quirky Story About A Vicious Rooster, In Which I Poke A Bit of Fun at My Own Kind

Well, we are a very Normal family. We always have been, and we like it that way. That’s why we can’t stand the people across the street, who are not Normal at all.

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Of Men, Measures, and Morals

I think there is a general understanding that religious people should also be good people. But how long has it been since religious people seriously examined the questions: What makes a good person good?

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