January Thaw, Bluffer’s Park, Lake Ontario
Francis Joseph Dvorak is an artist, art restorer and teacher. He studied philosophy at the University of Toronto, and painting in the atelier of...
Books I have not read
There are lots of books that I have never read and never will read. The act of not-reading is portrayed as passive, but there...
Is beauty in the eye of the Beholder?
College professors sometimes have too much time on their hands. While digging around in the crypt of an old medieval library in Oxford, I...
Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium
Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium
Featuring Cappella Romana and Alexander Lingas (Conductor)
Cappella Romana, 2012
ASIN: B007VHJVSM
On their new CD, Cappella Romana performs Byzantine musical treasures from...
Lumen Fidei
16. The clearest proof of the reliability of Christ’s love is to be found in his dying for our sake. If laying down one’s...
Are you a jerk?
I am a big jerk—for a list of reasons I will mostly not explain to you. But I will tell you part of the...
Lost Lectures
So the first thing to do was to be coached in arithmetic and algebra. I was taught these subjects by an old specialist who...
Parenting: fake it till you make it.
I am a stay at home mom. My husband and I have been married for 4 years and we have 2 children: Eleni, who...
Caliban’s Guide to Letters on Political Appeals
It was one of Dr. Caliban’s chief characteristics—and perhaps the main source of his power over others—that he could crystallise, or—to use the modern...
JERUSALEM
On 25 February, the Ontario Science Centre held a media premiere for the National Geographic IMAX film Jerusalem. Writer, producer, and director Daniel Ferguson attended...
