Recently I decided that I needed to lose weight. Well, several million Americans and I decided that, since that happens on any given week. However, I had become increasingly concerned both about my health and about my Orthodox witness. It is somewhat hard to preach on self-control if you can look down and see the […]
Archives for July 2011
If you are here legally, you have rights
From Fox News: A judge this week ruled this week that Texas can no longer deny driver’s licenses to legal immigrants with temporary visas and must issue standard licenses instead of non-standard ones approved by a state panel three years ago. … Gov. Rick Perry, a popular choice among Republicans looking for a 2012 GOP […]
Giving to worthy causes and keeping your taxes from government entitlements
In response to my post yesterday on what we can agree on about the poor, Fr. Greg made a further point about giving to the poor which I found most interesting. He said in part: This properly Christian response is not only undertaken in order to “help the poor”. It is a spiritual discipline – almsgiving- […]
Where we can agree about the poor
I commented yesterday that our youngest daughter was married this past Saturday at a Greek Orthodox parish. That Sunday I concelebrated the Divine Liturgy with the parish priest. He and I are friends and have spent many hours around an altar. As a cradle Orthodox he was able to not only teach me much about […]
Youngest daughter now married
For those of you who have been wondering at my abscence, it was because last week was our youngest daughter’s wedding. Therefore, we were quite occupied with all the inevitable last minute details. One of those details is that last week, two days before the wedding, I had the opportunity to chrismate our daughter into […]
Fr. Orthoduck and a Kitsune
Father Orthoduck recently received the drawing above. It is a drawing of Father Orthoduck with a Kitsune. The message said in part: You have an avatar as Fr. Orthoduck … truth be told I have an online persona as it were too. She’s a … fox (or as the Japanese call them, Kitsune … mythical […]
So, religious discrimination is OK in the USA after all?
From Fox News: Presidential candidate Herman Cain on Sunday defended his opposition to a new mosque in Tennessee, expressing concern about Shariah law and declaring Americans “have the right” to ban mosques in their communities. … Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” Cain said he came out against the Tennessee mosque after talking to members of […]
Maybe we can all agree that it will be painful
It might be helpful if both parties admit fully to the public what will be true in reducing both the deficit and the debt. There will be significant pain. Notice that the first panel of the comic does not simply have the USA, but has several countries. First, we need to admit to ourselves that […]
Some fun quotes from science fiction writers
Clarke’s Three Laws When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced […]
Homosexuality and an Orthodox pastoral response
Before I go into what our hierarchs have said as their pastoral response to people with homosexual inclinations, let me first speak to a couple of matters. The first is that an Orthodox believer asked about support for the person with those inclinations struggling to live a life that adheres to Orthodox standards. One of our readers […]
