Have you ever had a fictional character so stick in your mind that you keep returning to that character? Obviously the characters in the C.S. Lewis series, The Chronicles of Narnia, are such characters. But, among them stands one character that makes me ache when I think of her. Who is she? Susan Pevensie, Queen […]
Archives for 2009
Fr. Orthohippo runs 4 July contest
My friend Father Orthohippo is running a 4th of July contest. He asked me to reproduce it below. I have disabled comments on this post because it does no good to post your answer here. You have to click on his name, at the beginning of this paragraph, and go to the website to enter the […]
On designing your own religion
Father Orthoduck was quite amused to have the comic above published on the same day as the latest commentary by Terry Mattingly on church trends. In his blog he comments: Today’s megachurches offer members new options. Grandmother may attend a service with hymns or — as Baby Boomers turn 60something — folk music or soft […]
Is this carrying the Second Ammendment too far?
PHOENIX — There was a time in the Wild West that cowboys had to check their guns before they could pull up a bar stool for a drink — rules that protected against the saloon gunfights that came to define the frontier era in places like Arizona. But a bill moving through the Arizona Legislature […]
On Latino holy images
A suffering Mary holy image Have you ever seen a Latino holy image? You know, what you see in a Roman Catholic Church in Perú or Bolivia or México? Most of them are quite bloody or show quite a lot of suffering. The image on this post is of a suffering Mary with tears streaming […]
Wallababies and Australian crop circles, oh my!
From the blog Text Dash: Crop Circle Mystery Solved! I don’t write about aliens, although one day I may give it a try, but I love a good story about the supposed actions and motivations of planet Earth’s alien visitors. . . The BBC is now blaming stoned wallabies for crop circles in Aussie poppy […]
On the Orthodox and economic theories
Father Orthoduck wishes to point out that Fr. Ernesto was completely unaware that there have been two discussions on the very subject on Ancient Faith Radio, the section called The Illumined Heart. Look under April 17, 2009 for the first part of the discussion. Look under the June 26, 2009 podcast for the second part […]
The Old Testament God was a socialist; the New Testament God is a capitalist, part 05
Well, some final thoughts, I think. As Orthodox Christians we can never run our personal economic system purely on what maximizes the market neither on what gives the most profit to owners and investors. Part of the point of citing the Sabbath Year and the Jubilee Year was to point out that even though the […]
The Old Testament God was a socialist; the New Testament God is a capitalist, part 04
I had a delightful time tonight in a discussion with a person who works in one of the chemical industries. It was over politics and religion. I am afraid that we missed talking about sex, which is just fine with me. However, I realized that it might be good to take a moment to more […]
Latest scandal numbers watch
Father Orthoduck heard a most interesting statistic today. In the follow-up to the current scandal from the Republican governor of South Carolina, one of the news stations put together some numbers. OK, so how many national-level political sex scandals have there been since President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski? Well, spread across both parties, the magic […]
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