Insofar as this blog has a “mission statement”, it could be this quote of the Elder Zosima in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (trans. Pevear & Volokhonsky)

“… on earth we are indeed wandering, as it were, and did we not have the precious image of Christ before us, we would perish and be altogether lost, like the race of men before the flood. Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret, mysterious sense of our living bond with the other world, with the higher heavenly world, and the roots of our thoughts and feelings are not here but in other worlds…

“God took seeds from other worlds and sowed them on this earth, and raised up his garden; and everything that could sprout sprouted, but it lives and grows only through its sense of being in touch with other mysterious worlds; if this sense is weakened or destroyed in you, that which has grown up in you dies. Then you become indifferent to life, and even come to hate it. So I think.”

What I try to do here is present beautiful things from Christendom.  Occasionally sprinkled in will be my opinions, and for that I sincerely apologize.

About the author:

I have a bachelors degree in Classics, and I am currently a graduate student in Mathematics.  I live with my wonderful wife in the Chicago area, and I am originally from central Indiana.

I am a Roman Catholic;  for the best summary of my beliefs, see the Nicene Creed.

I post on the Christian group blog The Boar’s Head Tavern as “Mack Ramer”, and I post brief musings and personal updates on Twitter.