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.
An interesting take on hell
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. […]
An evangelical’s complaint about political evangelicalism
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 […]
The Orthodox and music
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 […]
War vets and delayed health benefits
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 […]
Well, there goes another science standby
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. […]
Archbishop Dmitri (of Blessed Memory) on freedom from 1988
The article below comes from the October 1988 edition of The Dawn, the newspaper of the Diocese of the South. I has been republished more than once. I just saw the latest reprint of it in the Preachers Institute. A Christian Understanding of Freedom People generally use the word freedom in order to describe two things: the […]
Fist bumps and raising children who are comfortable in the faith
Two Sundays ago, I received a holy fist bump. Yes, I am serious, a holy fist bump. It was given to me by a nervous 8-year-old new altar boy. It is a story of raising our children in trust that the Lord will supplement our feeble efforts with his grace that overflows all that we […]
Cardinal Dolan, humor, and the Christian life
As many of you know, Cardinal Dolan of New York is one of the Archbishops who filed suit against the Obama administration for the insurance mandate that many Roman Catholics consider to be forcing them to go against their faith in providing a coverage with which they do not religiously agree. Part of the argument […]
Scripture, the Divine Liturgy, and contemporary worship
There is an excellent resource called the Preachers Institute which recently had an excellent article called, The Eternal Liturgy vs. Contemporary Worship. It is an extremely good article. What particularly impressed me was the way in which it handles several of the Old Testament Scriptures in order to point out that liturgical worship is quite in line with […]
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