August Reflections: Transfiguration, Diaspora, and the Fourth Crusade
August 19, 2025
Greetings to all on the radiant feast of the Lord’s Transfiguration! In this post I bring together, in a single sermon-style reflection, several pieces that first appeared here on this day last year.
The Russian poet Boris Pasternak, in his Poems of Yuri Zhivago, includes a piece entitled August, written between 1946 and 1953. It is bound up with the mem…
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