As you know, three months ago, the democratically elected president of Honduras was overthrown in a military coup. Back then cartoons such as the one in this post were widespread among conservatives in the USA. The automatic charge was that Zelaya was a leftist and that President Obama was merely backing a fellow leftist. There […]
Intersexuals and the Church, part 02
This post will be both the Saturday and Sunday posts. Weekends are always hard for a pastor because of multiple commitments. Let me mention that this post is my own personal opinion. While I am building on Orthodoxy, I do not claim any special insight, nor do I claim to represent the Orthodox Church. In […]
Intersexuals and the Church, part 01
OK, so we have gone through syndromes, through the medical side of the arguments. Now it is time to talk about the Church and intersexuals. A lot of the answer will have to do with what are the purposes for marriage. And, does one purpose predominate over all the other purposes? So, let me start […]
Intersex medical thoughts
I will tell you right now that it does not matter what I write, there will be a significant number of people upset. As I pointed out, this has become one of the subjects that touches upon the area of sexuality that is such an area of debate in this country. Today, I will write […]
Caster Semenyas and intersex
One of the commenters to my blog on Caster Semenya commented that I should not have used the term hermaphrodite–despite the fact that this was the term used in several newspapers of various stripes–and should have used the term intersex. Needless to say, as with any discussion that involves sex and gender nowadays, this is […]
Some national memories are worth remembering
I am going to take a one day break from talking about marriage because of a memory that struck me. You see, as I am writing this, it has been 10 days since the anniversary of 9/11. But, oddly enough, the memory that came to me was not the memory of the towers. It is […]
Orthodoxy and physical spousal abuse
Two days ago I blogged two posts on spousal abuse and yesterday on people with certain physical conditions. Let me deal first with spousal abuse. In order to set up this post and the next one, let me give you a rather long quote. I ask that you read it carefully. Unfortunately, the original article […]
How does the Church treat the Caster Semenyas of the world?
I suspect that most of you are not aware of the controversy over Caster Semenya of South Africa. She is an 18 year old runner from South Africa who recently won the women’s 800 meters at the World Championships in Berlin. What brought her to world attention is that she broke the world’s record. And, […]
Self-delusion
Every pastor has to deal with the person who comes to him and tries to excuse himself when he is committing a very serious sin and violating his marriage. Why did I use the masculine pronoun? Well, despite the changes in society and the growth of feminism, it is still my experience that the male […]
Orthodox Anglican Trivia Tidbit
OK, for all of you trivia fans I have a question. When did Anglicans and Orthodox first meet in the continental United States? Now in order to answer that question, you have to know something of the missionary expansion of the Russian Orthodox Church. Most people vaguely realize that the Russians were in what is […]
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