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 […]
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 […]
The Old Testament God was a socialist; the New Testament God is a capitalist, part 03
As you can see from the comments to previous posts, there is a very strong reaction in America to posts having to do with economics. So, let’s keep going. The Year of Jubilee The biblical requirement is that the Jubilee year was to be treated like a Sabbatical year, with the land lying fallow, but […]
The Old Testament God was a socialist; the New Testament God is a capitalist, part 02
Now, you may expect me to advocate a particular economic viewpoint from the Old Testament, but I am not. In fact, I may say something that will surprise you. There is no way, with certainty, to support either one economic system or one political system simply from reading the Old Testament, or even the New […]
The Old Testament God was a socialist; the New Testament God is a capitalist, part 01
One of the raging debates in American Christianity today has to do with whether President Obama is a socialist. Much has been written about how God is not against people being rich, therefore implying that any attempt to regulate how people make riches is tantamount to opposing God’s economic policies, therefore it must be sin. […]
Moderate frustration
Well, I think I have all the widgets restored. However, to my dismay, over 50% of the posts + comments show some minor corruption. There is no way to fix it other than going over every post and comment individually, something I do not have time to do. As best I can tell, it is […]
Ongoing repairs
By this afternoon I hope to have finished repairing the main content of the site and have repaired the widgets. At least I did not lose that database of posts.
WordPress crash
For those of you who tried to read this site today and found it either down or trying to send you a file, I apologize. Apparently the wordpress update to 2.8 worked fine until there was a server crash at 2:00 pm. When the server came back up, WordPress decided that it was broken and […]
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