The post below comes from a friend of mine, Father Orthohippo. You may answer his question either here or there. We are long-time friends and read each other’s blogs. Despair is becoming much more wide spread here in the north. In St. Clair county, Michigan (population 164,000) last week, we had two incidents of murder-suicide […]
Patrick Kennedy and freedom of choice
From the Associated Press yesterday: By RAY HENRY, Associated Press Writer Ray Henry, Associated Press Writer 43 mins ago PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman’s support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in […]
Church violates law by helping poor – ACLU to help
The story above is 9 minutes long. But, do watch the interview. Please note that a judge has ruled that it is illegal for the church to feed the poor in its hall. Interestingly enough, the ACLU has offered to help in any legal appeals. Meantime, the church has chosen to continue to feed the […]
USO girls in WWII
The USO (United Service Organizations) was begun in 1941. The USO supplies social, recreational, welfare, and spiritual facilities to members of the armed services. It is congressionally chartered, but is not a government agency, and it subsists on private donations. During World War II, the USO became the G.I.’s “home away from home,” and began […]
You had better practice what you trumpet!
From yesterday’s post, Fr. Huw made the following comment: But this only attacks half the problem… if there is a place where our (and I speak in the first person here, on purpose) hypocrisy haunts us most, it’s in our trumpeting of “one right set of doctrines” when paralleled with our self-righteousness. Essentially we say […]
The wrong sort of Mere Christianity
Yesterday I received a comment on an older blog post that said that all the Orthodox that this person had met were hypocrites. Of course, I was at first tempted to answer with either snappy comebacks or with philosophical comebacks or by re-defining the term. I finally wrote that I had no way to disprove […]
Ahh, is this really honest journalism?
Yesterday, the Breitbart news site ran a story on a proposed resolution that a Congressman was thinking of submitting for approval by the House. They reproduced the resolution and then proceeded to lambaste the resolution. Now, at this point it does not matter what the resolution was, nor does it matter to which party the […]
On sexually transmitted diseases
From the Centers for Disease Control on a report released yesterday: Syphilis, once on the verge of elimination, began re-emerging as a threat in 2001. In 2008, 13,500 cases of primary and secondary syphilis cases were reported, an almost 18 percent increase from 2007. The majority of these syphilis cases (63 percent) continues to be […]
Is Evangelicalism dying?
I have permission to reproduce below part of an editorial from an online Christian magazine published by post-evangelical writers. The editorial is quite strong and, typical of post-evangelical writers, flirts with phrases that will startle you. Unfortunately, it uses one too many phrases that also almost require philosophy training in order to understand. Nevertheless, I […]
Truly offensive Al Gore TV
You may not know or care that Al Gore is involved with Current TV. What is Current TV? Current TV is an independent media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and businessman Joel Hyatt. The cable television network went on the air at midnight EDT (4:00 UTC) on the morning of August […]
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