Bad news for some of you. We are taking a one day break from Nixon and China. [Somehow I doubt that it is bad news for many of you.] I saw a show last night that portrayed a reality that many non-soldiers have trouble understanding. The show portrayed an encounter between an American veteran of […]
Answers to various questions
This seemed like a good time to answer some miscellaneous questions from several people. Not all of them are totally serious, but I wanted to “clean up” my inbox. “… Father Orthohippo.” What is with you Orthodox blogging priests and having orthodox animals? đ Well, actually, not all Orthodox priests do that. đ For instance, […]
Thanksgiving comics
Shifting gears to become Orthodox
Yesterday I received a note from someone thinking about Orthodoxy. In the note he asked about what it means when so many of us say that in order to become Orthodox you have to be willing to “shift gears” or to “change the way you think” in order to become Orthodox. I must admit that […]
A question from Michigan
The post below comes from a friend of mine, Father Orthohippo. You may answer his question either here or there. We are long-time friends and read each other’s blogs. Despair is becoming much more wide spread here in the north. In St. Clair county, Michigan (population 164,000) last week, we had two incidents of murder-suicide […]
Patrick Kennedy and freedom of choice
From the Associated Press yesterday: By RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writer Ray Henry, Associated Press Writer 43 mins ago PROVIDENCE, R.I. â Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman’s support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in […]
Church violates law by helping poor – ACLU to help
The story above is 9 minutes long. But, do watch the interview. Please note that a judge has ruled that it is illegal for the church to feed the poor in its hall. Interestingly enough, the ACLU has offered to help in any legal appeals. Meantime, the church has chosen to continue to feed the […]
USO girls in WWII
The USO (United Service Organizations) was begun in 1941. The USO supplies social, recreational, welfare, and spiritual facilities to members of the armed services. It is congressionally chartered, but is not a government agency, and it subsists on private donations. During World War II, the USO became the G.I.’s “home away from home,” and began […]
You had better practice what you trumpet!
From yesterday’s post, Fr. Huw made the following comment: But this only attacks half the problem⊠if there is a place where our (and I speak in the first person here, on purpose) hypocrisy haunts us most, itâs in our trumpeting of âone right set of doctrinesâ when paralleled with our self-righteousness. Essentially we say […]
The wrong sort of Mere Christianity
Yesterday I received a comment on an older blog post that said that all the Orthodox that this person had met were hypocrites. Of course, I was at first tempted to answer with either snappy comebacks or with philosophical comebacks or by re-defining the term. I finally wrote that I had no way to disprove […]
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