You can go here to read a current study on the state of public employee pensions in various states surveyed, the adjustments that various states have been making, and possible future outcomes. In essentially all cases the predictions are very cautiously optimistic. That is, there are many caveats given at the end of the study. […]
Archives for March 2013
Update on adult stem cell research
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com If you follow the link above, you will go to a very interesting interview on Fox News concerning stem cell research. Let me warn you that the headline is completely misleading, but the actual video interview is well worth the watching. Just remember that the Roman Catholic Church did […]
Eastern Orthodox in favor of school prayer
When all too many people speak of Christian prayer in schools, what they really mean is not prayers by all Christians, but some type of prayer that is fully acceptable only to some Christians. Not surprisingly, those Christians tend to be WASP. When I was young, I attended Roman Catholic parochial school. The school day […]
If you are afraid of organized religion
I have heard more than one Orthodox priest comment that if you are afraid of organized religion then you need to become Eastern Orthodox. If you look at the situation in the USA and most of the world outside the ancient patriarchates, with our multiple jurisdictions and our multiple traditions, there is some significant truth […]
Brief news report about Patriarch and Pope meeting
The following article was published on the website of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America: Amid the crush of news reports in the past month that followed Pope Benedict’s unprecedented resignation from the papacy, one of the most intriguing was the decision by His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, to attend Pope Francis’ installation as Bishop […]
Saint Menas and the Germans in Egypt WWII
A photo from an Athonite monastery. This is Saint Menas chasing Germans out in World War II. The date given for the expulsion by the wall fresco is 1942. I cannot tell for sure whether the angels are carrying swords or guns! Below is a quote from The Army News (Australia) dated 10 November 1942: […]
Anabaptist anti-creed arguments
Warning: Do not watch the video above while drinking any liquid, lest you choke. There are many arguments that those who claim the Radical Reformation (as versus the Reformation) use to deny historic Christian practice. But, as the video above points out, there is a whole set of arguments that are illogical, to say the […]
Some good days ahead for the Roman Catholic Church
I suspect that some good days are ahead for the Roman Catholic Church. Look at the interview above in which Pope Francis recounts how he chose his name. Look at his vision for the Roman Catholic Church, a poor Church in favor of the poor. But, I suspect that I am not the only one […]
The media and the Pope
During the election of Pope Francis and during the election of the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the media and various secular and “Roman Catholic” groups flooded the print media and the airwaves. Invariably, their articles were demands, recommendations, or teary-eyed writings that spoke to what type of Pope should be elected and what his future […]
The God-blessed Septuagint
The Septuagint … (or “LXX“, or “Greek Old Testament“) is an ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek, dated as early as the late 2nd century BCE. It is quoted in the New Testament, particularly in the writings of Paul the Apostle, and also by the Apostolic Fathers and later Greek […]
