Father Orthoduck is drifting farther and farther away from the Republicans with whom he voted during the late 1980’s and into President George Bush’s second election. The drift began during President Bush’s first term as the debate about illegal immigration heated up. You see, Father Orthoduck was working in an inner city area, and among […]
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Flannery O’Connor and hell
“It takes two to love. It takes liberty. It takes the right to reject. If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.” Flannery O’Connor, 1959 Mary Flannery O’Connor was a southern writer and a Roman Catholic. She died in 1964 having written two novels and 32 short stories. […]
Sometimes we just simply use bad logic
Recently I posted a comment on someone else’s blog and, in part, received the comment on my comment listed below: With all due respect, the Radical Reformers’ desire to do away with the liturgical aspects of worship probably had more to do with the fact that those using the liturgy were also persecuting the Anabaptists […]
Speaking the truth in love
Yesterday I quoted Saint Paul, “Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.” I wrote that in connection with the tendency of too many bloggers to just write neither exactly the truth nor to write in love. And, that is a […]
Some random thoughts on Church
I recently received some questions, as I periodically do, and I thought I would publish part of my answer. Any personal references have been removed. The note is not meant to be theologically precise, but rather general. Every Church has its best side and its worst side. And so, for almost every major denomination of […]
Are we not all tired of the arguing yet?
Father Orthoduck saw this quote on another blog. Are you frustrated with the constant bickering between the parties? Are you tired of the “he said, she said” of current politics? Do you wish the Congress would get about the business of seriously debating legislation, based on real logical principles? Well, you are not the only […]
On freedom and the wrath of God
I was just reading a transcript of an interview from 2008 on Ancient Faith Radio in which Frederica Mathewes-Green was interviewing Fr. Ted Stylianopoulos. At one point Father Ted says: But you notice, in Romans chapter 1, as God Holiness encounters the plight and sin of humanity, He doesn’t do something additional to punish them. […]
Cells by Rudyard Kipling
Father Orthoduck is a Rudyard Kipling fan as are many military science fiction writers. Below is one of his more humorous pieces. Enjoy! Cells I’ve a head like a concertina: I’ve a tongue like a button-stick: I’ve a mouth like an old potato, and I’m more than a little sick, But I’ve had my fun […]
On science fiction and capitalism
Many science fiction writers–but not fantasy writers–are, in many ways, our secular modern version of the Delphic oracles who tried to look into the future. These writers have to construct imaginary worlds based on what is currently known about science and human history and posit various future histories based on what we have now and looking […]
Orthodox viewpoint on mystery???
Father Orthoduck wonders whether the priest pictured above is an Orthodox priest.
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