What a tag team these guys are! A little on the competitive side, but at bottom, they have a genuine fondness for each other. Peter and Paul (well, I suppose one could add Mary, too) sure put in the hours. It would not be an overstatement for Sistertech to say that the place would be [...]

Today Sistertech remembers Irenaeus. A true believer if ever there was one. He was such an incredibly good advocate for orthodoxy as opposed to heresy. More on Irenaeus’ exploits here. The Psalm appointed for this day is one of my favorites: Psalm 145. I can speak from personal experience that this truly captures the character [...]

Sistertech’s Russian is practically non-existent. She can count to ten, with difficulty. And I can say “Very Good!” and “Thank You”. But Isabel was a whiz at Russian. What a champ! She translated into English the central liturgy used in the Russian Orthodox Church, the Divine Liturgy. This labor of love certainly helped begin to [...]

Sistertech gets a bit teary-eyed when she thinks about James Weldon Johnson’s stirring poetry for Lift Every Voice and Sing. Hard to believe it was written so recently, well recent in angel years, 1899. Lift every voice and sing, ‘Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High [...]

We all think that saints are special. However, allow Sistertech to let you in on a little secret. Some of them were more embraceable (in every sense of the word) as infants than they were as adults. John is a perfect example. It’s not that Sistertech doesn’t admire John. She does. It’s just that he’s [...]

Al (d. 304) is an all-around stand up kind of guy.  As he sees it, the notion of “taking the fall for someone” is not at all the way to look at his martyrdom. It’s about standing up for something and someone that one believes in. No wonder this Psalm was appointed for his day. [...]

I just left a celebration for Bernard Mizeki. He’s an amazing fellow. He reminds me of Ephrem in his ingenuity and adaptability in using the target community’s existing resources, be those resources their beliefs or aspects of their culture, to relate messages from The One In Charge. Sistertech wishes others were as willing and adept [...]

These two! Not again! It’s not that they caused a lot of commotion up here, because there is always quite a bit of activity. No. It’s just that, well. How can I put this nicely? Let us start with Georgie, um, I mean Bishop Berkeley. First of all, he is quite particular about how one [...]

You might wonder why Sistertech is such a big fan of Evelyn Underhill. I’ve been talking to the Lenny in the Public Relations Department about the branding problem. Well, I think it is a problem. You see, try as I might, when I suggest people read Underhill, they visibly shudder. It is as though I [...]

Basil (d. 379) is a favorite of one of Sistertech’s clients. It has something to do with his having studied in Athens in the 350′s. He was an ardent advocate of the Nicene formula that quite a few of Sistertech’s clients recite. It’s that bit about the Logos being fully God and fully human. These [...]