Coincidentally, I became acquainted with Sister Vassa Larin’s work in two different places yesterday. First at Mind in the Heart, which contains her talk on how Orthodox have always benefited from “unorthodox” education. And next on a podcast from the St. Vladimir Seminary Liturgical Symposium in honor of Fr. Alexander Schmemann, which was one of the podcasts George downloaded for me to listen to on my trip to and from Holy Archangels Monastery in Kendalia last Saturday. I just got to Dr. Sister Vassa’s podcast yesterday, which was fortunate due to my almost simultaneous introduction to her.

In the Fr. Schmemann talk, she presents a very interesting balance between monastic life and parish life, albeit in contrast to what she brings out from Fr. Schmemann’s Journal in particular. I have not quite finished listening to it yet, but wanted to go ahead and recommend both talks to you.