The Thanksgiving weekend is not even over and we already have this year’s first salvo of the yearly complaints about the anti-Christian War on Christmas. The American Family Association has now proclaimed: AFA is calling for a limited one-month boycott of Radio Shack over the company’s censorship of the word "Christmas." For years, Radio […]
Archives for November 2013
Pope Francis on economics
“In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world,” he said. “This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of […]
Sometimes apocalyptic is the right response
Because of all the misuse of “end-times” theology, we have often reacted against apocalyptic language. We will read about the forecasts of the end times and, every time, they are wrong. In the Eastern Roman Empire, what is now called the Eastern Orthodox Church began to react somewhat against apocalyptic because of the many false […]
For the Anglophiles among us 2013
on this second video, if you wish, you can skip the speech and go to minute 7:50 for the beginning of the performance Yes, I was born in Latin America. But, I must admit that growing up in an Anglo-Saxon environment has made me into something of an Anglophile. At least one of my contributors […]
Orthodox Internet trolls
In Internet slang, a troll (/?tro?l/, /?tr?l/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a forum, chat room, or blog), either accidentally or with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response […]
