The blog of a Cuban who became an Eastern Orthodox priest.
Well, some final thoughts, I think. As Orthodox Christians we can never run our personal economic system purely on what maximizes the market neither on what gives the most profit to owners and investors. Part of the point of citing the Sabbath Year … [Continue reading]
I had a delightful time tonight in a discussion with a person who works in one of the chemical industries. It was over politics and religion. I am afraid that we missed talking about sex, which is just fine with me. However, I realized that it might … [Continue reading]
Father Orthoduck heard a most interesting statistic today. In the follow-up to the current scandal from the Republican governor of South Carolina, one of the news stations put together some numbers. OK, so how many national-level political sex … [Continue reading]
As you can see from the comments to previous posts, there is a very strong reaction in America to posts having to do with economics. So, let's keep going. The Year of Jubilee The biblical requirement is that the Jubilee year was to be treated … [Continue reading]
Now, you may expect me to advocate a particular economic viewpoint from the Old Testament, but I am not. In fact, I may say something that will surprise you. There is no way, with certainty, to support either one economic system or one political … [Continue reading]
One of the raging debates in American Christianity today has to do with whether President Obama is a socialist. Much has been written about how God is not against people being rich, therefore implying that any attempt to regulate how people make … [Continue reading]
Well, I think I have all the widgets restored. However, to my dismay, over 50% of the posts + comments show some minor corruption. There is no way to fix it other than going over every post and comment individually, something I do not have time to … [Continue reading]
By this afternoon I hope to have finished repairing the main content of the site and have repaired the widgets. At least I did not lose that database of posts. … [Continue reading]
For those of you who tried to read this site today and found it either down or trying to send you a file, I apologize. Apparently the wordpress update to 2.8 worked fine until there was a server crash at 2:00 pm. When the server came back up, … [Continue reading]
On another blog there is a discussion about the Kingdom of God. As we all know, the Kingdom of God was a constant theme in Jesus' preaching according to the Synoptic Gospels. "The Kingdom of God is at hand." "The Kingdom of God is among you." Even to … [Continue reading]
