Yesterday, I commented that, in an excess of caution, I was withholding the name of our youngest daughter who was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. I have since found out that it has been published publicly, so I am free to show you a photograph of the award ceremony. The caption reads: (Right to left) […]
Archives for January 2011
Gasp! My secret is out!
Father Orthoduck knew that someday he would be found out! Father Ernesto is still spending time with his daughter. Blogging should resume soon.
Daughter home, time to kill the fatted calf
I posted no post today. That is because my wife, one of our daughters, and two grandchildren, and I, went to be at our youngest daughter’s dismissal from active duty ceremony. Her unit just returned from Iraq, and earlier today we picked her up with a couple of duffel bags and a backpack and hauled […]
A good example of love in action
Just yesterday I received the following e-mail from a person who has posted on this blog: . . . I have been reading & enjoying your blog & have recently commented on the Anabaptist church. I have noticed that you have written often about the Immigration laws that are being introduced in Arizona. My church […]
Texas, yet again, and again, and again … no Lone Ranger there!
Many of us remember watching the Lone Ranger when we were children. Every Saturday morning, there he would be, fighting the evil men and bringing justice to the West. He was a Texan in the most mythical sense of the word. He never shot a person directly, but always managed the impossible feat of only […]
Orthodoxy and para-Church organizations
Fr. Ernesto’s subject from yesterday will continue tomorrow. There is little doubt that parachurch organizations now have a large part in providing many services and/or evangelism and/or missions that the Church is supposed to be doing. This sometimes places the Orthodox in a difficult position. On the one hand, it is difficult for us to support […]
Lies, d*** lies, and statistics
We have all heard the saying about there being, “lies, damn lies, and statistics.” From where does the saying come? No one knows for sure, though it comes from the 19th century. The word statistics did not exist in English until 1787, so the saying cannot come from prior to that. A mathematician from the […]
New Year’s resolutions 2011
So, did you make any New Year’s resolutions this year? So, from where did New Year’s resolutions come? Well, we inherited that tradition from the Romans. January is named after the god Janus. In Roman mythology, Janus is the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, endings and time. Most often he is depicted as having […]
Thanks Chief Justice Roberts, it needed to be said
Yesterday, Chief Justice Roberts of the United States Supreme Court issued his end-of-year report, in it he said some rather strong things to Congress. Fox News quotes his report: Citing the economic downturn as one of two “immediate obstacles” to improving the performance of the federal judiciary, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts […]
