"Pretend" and the Sad Lack of Imagination

       A few years ago, I worked as a teaching assistant at a small private school.  Periodically, I was asked to go into the Preschool or t...

  • Leading to Salvation
      Christianity was a strange and novel religion in which the believers refused to worship more than their own God.  To the Romans, this co...
  • The Assumption of Mary
     The feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos is celebrated on August 15 (in the West, this is known as the Feast of the Assumption).  From t...
  • An Accomplishment with the Elements
      One of the greatest accomplishments of mankind is the understanding of the elements, as is made evident through the use of the periodic ...