From Fox News: An ABC pilot called “Good Christian Bitches” has religious and women’s groups up in arms over what they describe as an extremely offensive and distasteful show title. The dramedy, based on Kim Gatlin’s novel of the same name, will be brought to life by famed “Sex and the City” and “90210” executive […]
Hmm, what are we supposed to do again?
Father Orthoduck finds it amazing how many people believe the above trite statement. They come in two varieties. One variety is the ever so naive, and usually slightly kooky, person who talks on about crystals, pyramids, and convergence. We all have friends like that. They are amusing to listen to, and we learned many years […]
Gene that makes you believe religion
e As you may remember, about three to four years ago there came out the news that scientists had found a gene that impulses you towards “religious” experiences. This followed an earlier story that scientists had found an area of the brain that responds strongly when one is having a “religious” experience. The press had […]
Sometimes you just cannot make it up!
We have all had the experience of reading something in the newspapers and commenting to ourselves that if this were written by Hollywood, we would call this a far-out plot. But, this is a real story from the great State of Arizona, and it appears hard to believe, but, yes, it really happened: An Arizona […]
Wishful thinking
Of old, First Ladies often undertook “tasks” that were, uhm, somewhat less than major policy events. For instance, President Lyndon Johnson’s wife (Lady Bird) took on the beautification of America by pushing for the removal of billboards from the side of interstates and many other roads. For those of you old enough, you may remember […]
O Wisconsin, O Wisconsin, you certainly badger all
Father Orthoduck has been trying to avoid the Wisconsin controversy, but he cannot avoid it any longer. The governor of Wisconsin is following standard supply-side economics thinking. Now that it has not succeeded, just like it has not succeeded before, he has decided that the blame is on the teachers. But, what are the facts […]
Lent is coming; Lent is coming
It has been a while since Father Orthoduck posted an image from one of my favorite bloggers, Pithless Thoughts. He has again ended up leaving Father Orthoduck helplessly gasping with laughter. Like Paul Revere, let Father Orthoduck shout, “Lent is coming; Lent is coming!” Yes, this is the season that so many people dread. Meat […]
The bottom line of the healthcare debate
One of the problems with the current arguments in the healthcare debate is that they do not deal with a reality that was present before a current Federal Law, a reality to which the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church (and the Pope) say we must not return to. What is that reality? Well, let […]
Tea Party vs the Left
Father Orthoduck has no particular story and no particular message with the cartoon above. Well, except that he is glad to finally see a political cartoon written and drawn from a moderate viewpoint. Yes, the cartoon above is uncouth and insulting and unbalanced, etc. But, as a moderate, Father Orthoduck must admit that he laughed […]
Feast of the Presentation 2011
Today is the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple. It is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of Orthodoxy. The Synaxarion has the following to say about this feast: When the most pure Mother and Ever-Virgin Mary’s forty days of purification had been fulfilled, she took her first-born Son to Jerusalem […]
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