How do we know when to give up hope? As soon as the words had escaped my lips I knew it was a mistake. I should have spent just a few more seconds thinking about the question before I had opened my mouth. But it was too late. Download the rest of the article to...Read More
Words are funny things, aren’t they? Sounds and scribbles that represent ideas….We usually think about words positively – as if they were good, and I suppose they usually are. We look at words as if they always make life better – as if they always make ideas clearer and make subjects easier to talk about....Read More
The Phos Hilaron, (literally, light of hilarity, or gladdening light) is probably the most ancient piece of non-scriptural hymnology or ecclesial poetry to have made its way into regular Christian liturgical praxis. It is quite simply a hymn of thanksgiving for light, itself, composed to accompany the daily ritual of the lighting of the lamps...Read More
