In the 1980’s, a wave of spiritual warfare hit the USA. It seemed as though one could read about spiritual warfare everywhere. It was in those days that the C.S. Lewis series and the Tolkien books became big. Peretti wrote his series that included muscular angels. John Wimber did training seminars on spiritual warfare. The […]
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Child abuse is non-discriminatory
Here is a statistic from 10 years ago: In 1999, an estimated 3,244,000 children were reported to Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies as alleged victims of child maltreatment. Child abuse reports have maintained a steady growth for the past ten years, with the total number of reports nationwide increasing 45% since 1987 (Nation Committee for […]
On the reality of this world
Responding to a post by another Christian, I posted the reply below. See what you think of it. The original post had to do with a couple who went into missions based on a “faith call” and ended up nearly destroyed. My wife and I were missionaries. We saw crashes; we saw successes; we ourselves […]
Clergy meeting demotivator
So as not to possibly cause problems to someone else, Father Orthoduck will not mention from where he got the demotivator above. Sadly, as Father Orthoduck was trying to think of some witty comments to go with the poster above, he could think of none. Then Father Orthoduck thought he would go through the history […]
Pastoral errors
This comic reminds Father Orthoduck of some errors that he has made in his time. Fortunately, none of the errors have been of lasting damage, though some have certainly been embarrassing. There was the time when Father Orthoduck baptized a baby using the wrong name. Afterwards, the worried mother wondered whether she needed to legally […]
But it’s on the web!
Father Orthoduck keeps receiving e-mails, some of several megabytes which all swear that something is true. They either repeat a story or they will even send a video to back up the point that is being made. We know, of course, that a picture is worth a thousand words, therefore if there is a video […]
Apology to Guatemala
A news report being broadcast on all major networks: Washington — The United States apologized Friday for a 1946-1948 research study in which people in Guatemala were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases. A statement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called the action “reprehensible.” […]
Research fund-raising and false explanations
The cartoon above gives what is one of the more popular views of research fund-raising. It is often seeing as a self-perpetuating attempt to keep money flowing rather than an enterprise oriented towards finding new knowledge. That is all too often true nowadays, but it was not always so. Frankly, we are a great part […]
When reality contradicts memory
Maybe it is my imagination, but lately I am seeing more and more cartoons with this type of theme. They are worried about the amount of time that our children spend indoors and the amount of time that they spend playing a game for entertainment or texting. More than one of the cartoons has the […]
Your sins can come back to pay you a visit
I have often jokingly told couples who are thinking of marriage that someday in the future, their sins will catch up to them when they have teenagers, particularly if they are daughters. I have also jokingly said that the reason that fathers, in particular, say so many “no’s” to their daughters and are so suspicious […]
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