* Bishop Seraphim muses on a topic very dear to my heart: Christian friendship. More on this topic later...
* Jonathan Swift, in his 1704 classic "A Tale of a Tub" quipped, "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you would hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse." Subtle. I like it.
* On a rather worldly note, I'm going to be meeting Ben Stein later this week as he is the talent for a production shoot my company is in charge of. His performance as the economics teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is well-known to Gen Xers and '80's movie savants.