From Poor Richard’s Almanac: Each Age of Men new Fashions doth invent; Things which are old, young Men do not esteem: What pleas’d our Fathers, doth not us content; What flourish’d then, we out of fashion deem: And that’s the reason, as I understand, Why Prodigus did sell his Father’s Land. Now if this plaint […]
A holy kind of anger
A holy kind of anger. Here is a post by Terry Mattingly, an Orthodox journalist and commentator, that I heartily recommend. I am only allowed to give the link, but do read it.
Disabilities, baptism, and communion
On another blog the pastor was reminiscing about a time when he had debated with himself about the propriety of baptizing a 15 year old severely autistic child. There were no clear signs that the 15 year old had accepted the Lord, rather his mother requested his baptism after years of attending that congregation. The poster was […]
On Roman Polanski and Catholic priests
Father Orthoduck wishes to quote from an article called Father Polanski would go to jail by Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Imagine if the Knight of Columbus decided to give an award to a pedophile priest who had fled the country to avoid prison. The outcry would be universal. Victim groups would demand the award be […]
Intersexuals and the Church, part 02
This post will be both the Saturday and Sunday posts. Weekends are always hard for a pastor because of multiple commitments. Let me mention that this post is my own personal opinion. While I am building on Orthodoxy, I do not claim any special insight, nor do I claim to represent the Orthodox Church. In […]
Intersexuals and the Church, part 01
OK, so we have gone through syndromes, through the medical side of the arguments. Now it is time to talk about the Church and intersexuals. A lot of the answer will have to do with what are the purposes for marriage. And, does one purpose predominate over all the other purposes? So, let me start […]
Intersex medical thoughts
I will tell you right now that it does not matter what I write, there will be a significant number of people upset. As I pointed out, this has become one of the subjects that touches upon the area of sexuality that is such an area of debate in this country. Today, I will write […]
Orthodoxy and physical spousal abuse
Two days ago I blogged two posts on spousal abuse and yesterday on people with certain physical conditions. Let me deal first with spousal abuse. In order to set up this post and the next one, let me give you a rather long quote. I ask that you read it carefully. Unfortunately, the original article […]
Words have power, maybe, part 03
I started this series answering a question from one of the readers who has been told the same thing that many of us have been told at one time or another. For instance, we get told that we should not take part in the martial arts because back in China or Japan the martial art […]
Words have power, maybe, part 02
Sadly many of our current conservative Christians go significantly too far in the area of the demonic, and begin to believe illogical and contradictory ideas that have more in common with Hollywood than they do with Christian reality. — quote from yesterday’s post. Before I speak about the illogical ideas, let’s take one post to […]
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