About: About the author Jonathan Hayward, and this site, which is his pride and joy. Includes a list of What's New?
Books: You are welcome to read as much online as you want, but you might also like to curl up with a hardcover book.
Why not read a little more about The Christmas Tales, A Cord of Seven Strands, Firestorm 2034, Hayward's Unabridged Dictionary, The Sign of the Grail, The Steel Orb, or Yonder?
Et Cetera: A motley collection of artwork, games, humor, open source software, web services, and other miscellaneous works.
The Minstrel's Song: The Christian role playing game.
Site Map: A map of Jonathan's Corner. Broken down by subject.
Writing: This collection includes Eastern Orthodox Christian theology, philosophy, and literature. It is by far the largest section of this website, and possibly the most interesting.
The writing collection includes smaller sections of assorted creations, essays, journals, longer fiction, miscellaneous nonfiction, Orthodox humor, Orthodox spirituality, satire, short stories, and Socratic dialogue. If you're looking for a place to explore, why not begin with one of these links?
It's exotic, right?
The website for the Ubuntu Linux distribution announced that Ubuntu is "an ancient African word" meaning humanity to others. It announced how it carried forward the torch of a Linux distribution that's designed for regular people to use. And this promotion of "an ancient African word" has bothered a few people: one South African blogger tried to explain several things: for instance, he mentioned that "ubuntu" had been a quite ordinary Xhosa/Zulu word meaning "humanity," mentioned that it had been made into a political rallying cry in the 20th century, and drew an analogy: saying, "'Ubuntu' is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity'" is as silly as saying, in reverential tones, "'People' is an ancient European word meaning, 'more than one person.'" There is an alternative definition provided in the forums of Gentoo, a technical afficionado's Linux distribution: "Ubuntu. An African word meaning, 'Gentoo is too hard for me.'"
Read more of Exotic Golden Ages and Restoring Harmony with Nature: Anatomy of a Passion, posted on Friday 28 November, 2008, the first day of the Nativity Fast.