On Symbols, the Sacred, and Festivity
Visit the ancient catacombs of Saint Callixtus, just outside of Rome along the Appian Way, and you will realize what a...
The problem of translation has been analyzed, schematicized, theorized, and polemicized - but it has always been howled out in pain. In the now rarely print...
The consecration of the state, by a state religious establishment, is necessary," wrote the political philosopher Edmund Burke, "to operate with a wholesale a...
In the bowels of McCosh Hall the competition had not yet ended. After spending the day delivering direct examinations and closing arguments for my Harvard mock ...
My life as a Greek Orthodox Christian began with great pomp and circumstance, when just two weeks after I made my debut into the world, a priest gravely dipped ...
Napoleon once famously said that history is the account of the battle as described by the victors. The human understanding of time is inextricably tied to the w...
My grandmother died today. For you, the reader, it will have been days, weeks, months, perhaps even years since she died, but for me, it was today. I am still s...
Responding With Hope in the Midst of Destruction.
In the wake of the tsunami that struck Asia on December 26, 2004, images of the resulting destruction have p...
My 94-year old grandmother, who is still as sharp as ever, skipped church this past Easter Sunday. When I jokingly scolded her about it, she quickly retorted, “...
Reclaiming What Christian Culture Forgot.
I hate Christian culture. And I bet deep down you do too. I hate the isolation and hypocrisy. I hate the way that C...