Archives for 2012

The writer of the comic above nailed it. The idea that we can become anything we wish to become (regardless of our talents and personalities) merged decades ago with the idea that each one of us can be an expert (without the need for either advanced education or training, and/or without much experience). That merger […]

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Father Orthoduck is an unabashed space geek. He reads science fiction. He even believes that Galaxy Questis a movie worth watching over and over again as a hilarious send-off of Star Trek. And, yes, he even gets a guilty pleasure from watching Spaceballs […]

I was just watching again an old movie called “The Horse Whisperer,”  released in 1998. In the story, both a horse and a young teenage girl (14 in the movie) have been traumatized by an accident in which her friend was killed. The girl lost half her leg while the horse was injured and became unmanageable. […]

“Being spiritual but not religious avoids having to think too hard about having to decide.” So begins a recent article on the CNN religious blog. It is an article that I might have agreed with save that at the same time I read a blog post on Internetmonk.com (a blog by Evangelicals about the “post-Evangelical […]

Father Orthoduck admits that there is nothing theological or particularly Orthodox about the above PSA. But, he enjoyed the Canadian approach to CPR awareness. First the CDC and now the Canadians. Zombies are certainly popular. Make sure you take a CPR course from your local health agency or the Red Cross.

Greg Boyd on the importance of framing the hell question correctly from Kevin Miller on Vimeo. The documentary “Hellbound” is out . It seeks to present the different views and the debate on what is going on. The director interviewed quite a few priests, pastors, and laypeople to present the different theological positions on hell. […]

The following post comes from Internetmonk. It was written by Craig Bubeck. I have his written permission to quote his entire post. But be aware that this is a copyright post and you do not have permission to copy it without the author’s permission. If you wish to comment on what he writes, please go […]

I was asked recently to write about Orthodox music for an Evangelical website. Below is what I wrote: Orthodox worship involves the whole body and all its senses. One quote from an Orthodox website says, “Orthodox Church art and music has a very functional role in the liturgical life and helps even the bodily senses […]

There is a current story on CNN that makes me ache for my fellow veterans. See below: I work for the VA, and it is worse than you think. The story mentioned mistaken laboratory results in one sentence. In the lab in which I work, we are seven (7) Medical Laboratory Scientists under strength. Because […]

A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television’s Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, scientists say. A warp drive would manipulate space-time itself to move a starship, taking advantage of a loophole in the laws of physics that prevent anything from moving faster than light. […]