For anyone interested, here’s an as-yet unpublished essay I wrote a few years ago on the somewhat-famous debate between the Patriarch Timothy I of the Church of the East and al Mahdi, the Caliph of Baghdad.

Here’s a selection of some of the hymns sung in the Chaldean and Assyrian Churches at the end of each month, and especially at the end of the year, asking God to “order” the coming year toward his glory and the good of our souls. The translation is singable according to a pretty common melody, […]

I finally got around to translating these a few weeks ago. The Entrance Hymns are pretty intense exhortations to repentance for the living, as the casket is brought into the church; the Recessional Hymns are a touching goodbye spoken in the person of the deceased, whose casket is being taken out while they are sung. […]