Christ is risen ( Read more... )

We live in a very strange world. I was just looking at pictures from a wedding of an acquaintance of mine and I really don't understand. It's kind of hypocritical of me all things considered, but I really don't get it. Anyway ( Read more... )

Behold the power of sleep! I was a wreck Sunday through Monday night, and today I have been a new man! Not entirely out of it yet, but way calmer, way more stable, somewhat optimistic, and capable of going on with life ( Read more... )

Today was a confused today. I heard some rather bizarre news about a former SAU professor and really didn't quite know what to make of it. His choices are strange enough, but his desire to continue teaching at SAU considering what it stands for and the kind of person it attracts is even stranger to me. (Well, perhaps not stranger considering what ( Read more... )

So my Jonah day first got better and then returned to normal. I spent the better part of 3 hours at K-8 with Wendos, Leah, and Amanda talking about life, Russia, Egypt, relationships, scarves (Paul called halfway through with news that the Gap is having a scarf sale - thank God since I need a new one) and a bunch of other stuff, and I also showed ( Read more... )

A friend of mine from the Russian Studies Program just told me that she found a song we'd seen in Russia and found hilarious, and after watching its music video I went on to look for and find the music video for "Невозможное возможно," another I first saw in Russia. What surprised me about its effect on me was how powerful it was, partly because of ( Read more... )

The south-central Michigan OCF retreat seemed to go really well this year. We ended up only having 9 students who were able to stay overnight at Holy Dormition Monastery (where we held the retreat), but 4 students came up from SAU Friday night for the Vigil of the Annunciation and 5 students from U of M came over Saturday for the festal Divine ( Read more... )