So exciting–Michael over at Creative Orthodoxy created this wonderful visual essay inspired by Chapter 2 of Time and Despondency! I love seeing the different ways people imagine the relationship between time and eternity, and this is great work. You can see the full visual essay here.
Hi folks–just a quick note from me to let you know that Time and Despondency is 35% off this weekend (starting today!) on the Ancient Faith website! Buy a copy here to take advantage of this great offer.
Four years ago, I found out that something I assumed would be a given–something I had grown up staking my heart on–may never come to be. Until then, I had never really faced a struggle that was truly insurmountable. For the most part, whatever challenges came my way were resolved by extra studying, diligent research, a better-paying job,…
It was a hot, muggy morning last week, the final day of my month-long vacation in Wisconsin, and my abdomen was in a state of turmoil. I’d later realize my stomach tumult was not indigestion but a bilious stone in the gallbladder I should have had removed years ago. I tried to focus on the task at hand…
Christ is risen! I hope by now, everyone has recovered from Holy Week and Pascha and has survived the first fasting day (yesterday) after Bright Week! Things have been (and will continue to be) a little quiet around here, but I wanted to assure you all that I’m still alive! Just very quiet. The reason I’ve been keeping…
I recently finished reading the recently updated version of Benjamin D. Williams and Harold B. Anstall’s Orthodox Worship: A Living Continuity with the Synagogue, the Temple, and the Early Church (check it out on the Ancient Faith site here). Part Church history, part explication of the liturgy, the book introduces readers to the legacy of Jewish Temple worship…
My husband and I recently finished the first level of improv comedy courses at The Second City Toronto training centre (where John Candy got his start, nbd). A 7-week course, it was perhaps the most terrifying, fun, and challenging things we have ever done together. Lately I’ve been reflecting on all the things it taught me, not only…
In the Orthodox Church, Great Lent is enriched by the memory of the most celebrated monastics of Christian memory–St. Andrew of Crete (who got his start as a hierarch and hymnographer in a monastery near Jerusalem), St. John of the Ladder, and St. Mary of Egypt, to name a few. Surrounded by these virtuous souls, it’s easy…
Hey folks! Just a quick note to let you know about some speaking engagements coming up this week. This Sunday, March 10, I’ll be giving an informal talk on Lent and despondency in Toronto (Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Mission). The talk will be 1pm at Trinity College with Forgiveness Vespers to follow around 2PM. Join us if you’re able!…
This past Tuesday afternoon, I had the delightful opportunity to give a guest talk at the Met. Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies at St. Michael’s College (University of Toronto). In it, I re-examined the central claim of Time and Despondency, namely the idea that despondency is somehow inextricably tied to a broken relationship to time, in…