Kevin Edgecomb Explains Why ‘The Voice of Stefan’ Has Been Silent

Jim West grappled with the question, and Kevin offers the answer:
In case anyone’s wondering, Esteban’s computer is having trouble, so he hasn’t been posting. He’s got a Vista [*spit*] laptop that won’t recognize its keyboard or a USB keyboard, and he simply cannot deal (as if anyone could!) with the onscreen keyboard. Hopefully that will [...]

The Arrogance of the Modern

A few years ago, I read some uproariously funny pieces by one Reverend Colonel Ignatius Churchward Von Berlitz, MA (Dom. Sci.) Oxon. (Oklahoma) gleaned by an acquaintance from the internet in its early days, the tone of which is uncomfortably representative of standard 19th century British and American scholarly writing (see here and here).
At that [...]

The Beginning of Great Lent

Jesus Christ, the “Land of the Living”1
Today is Clean Monday, the day on which we begin the Lenten Fast. (In the Eastern Church, unlike in the Western, Sundays are included in the count of the 40 days, which therefore end on the Friday before Palm Sunday; at that point, we enter Passion Week, which in [...]