Can you believe?

Thirteen years ago I wrote a post on " Quaker culture ." I had just read a novel whose Jewish and Catholic characters were descri...

Source .   Early in her new book, Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made , historian Kristin ...

Vatican logo ( source ); Quaker star ( source , adapted) When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not mere...

Editions: London Yearly Meeting, 1959 (my copy); Britain Yearly Meeting, 2013. I received my first book of Quaker faith and practice in 197...

Wassily Kandinsky, Autumn in Murnau , the cover photo on Seraphim Sigrist's Facebook page . Source : Union of Orthodox Journalists ...

Source .   Several times over the past twenty-plus years of this blog, I've referred favorably to the expression "Don't throw t...

My first passport. For me, a former language teacher, there's nothing more humbling than studying a language I thought I already knew....

Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (played by Ralph Fiennes) giving his homily on certainty in the film Conclave . Screenshot from source . Conclave ...

Memories of Elektrostal, Russia, in winter, thanks to Sergey Kadyrov (composer and videographer). (Not related to tonight's post.) T...

" The Secret of England's Greatness ," Thomas Jones Barker, National Portrait Gallery, London (my photo—I wanted to include th...