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Second Amendment pumpkin chuckin

Father Orthoduck wishes to contribute this video to the Second Amendment discussion on one of Father Ernesto’s posts. This is a video of the Second Amendment, the world champion pumpkin chucking gun for several years running. Last that Father Orthoduck read they had not yet reached the one mile mark in chucking that pumpkin, but they had officially thrown one over 4,000 feet. The crew claims... [Read more]

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Susan Pevensie and salvation

Have you ever had a fictional character so stick in your mind that you keep returning to that character? Obviously the characters in the C.S. Lewis series, The Chronicles of Narnia, are such characters. But, among them stands one character that makes me ache when I think of her. Who is she? Susan Pevensie, Queen Susan the Gentle or Queen Susan of the Horn. I am not the only person to have had her stick... [Read more]

Fr. Orthohippo runs 4 July contest

My friend Father Orthohippo is running a 4th of July contest. He asked me to reproduce it below. I have disabled comments on this post because it does no good to post your answer here. You have to click on his name, at the beginning of this paragraph, and go to the website to enter the contest. Please go and participate! ============================ 4TH OF JULY FREEDOM CONTEST This man served ten... [Read more]

On designing your own religion

Father Orthoduck was quite amused to have the comic above published on the same day as the latest commentary by Terry Mattingly on church trends. In his blog he comments: Today’s megachurches offer members new options. Grandmother may attend a service with hymns or — as Baby Boomers turn 60something — folk music or soft rock. Pre-teens will bop to Hanna-Montana-esque praise songs in their services,... [Read more]

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Is this carrying the Second Ammendment too far?

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 has some bar owners fearful that the state is turning back the clock to the Old West. Lawmakers are considering... [Read more]

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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 down her face. Orthodox icons show the saints in glory. That is, they show the saints after all the suffering is done,... [Read more]

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Wallababies and Australian crop circles, oh my!

From the blog Text Dash: Crop Circle Mystery Solved! I don’t write about aliens, although one day I may give it a try, but I love a good story about the supposed actions and motivations of planet Earth’s alien visitors. . . The BBC is now blaming stoned wallabies for crop circles in Aussie poppy fields. . . If you want to read the rest of the story, you will simply have to go to her blog... [Read more]

On the Orthodox and economic theories

Father Orthoduck wishes to point out that Fr. Ernesto was completely unaware that there have been two discussions on the very subject on Ancient Faith Radio, the section called The Illumined Heart. Look under April 17, 2009 for the first part of the discussion. Look under the June 26, 2009 podcast for the second part of the discussion. Fr. Ernesto was not aware that the second part of the discussion... [Read more]

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 policies of those years were not free market policies, yet God decided that the care of the poor,... [Read more]

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 clearly define myself. I am not a laissez faire capitalist. You probably knew that already. Neither am I a socialist.... [Read more]

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