Before I became Orthodox, I had heard several sermons about someone being foolish in the eyes of the world in order to serve God. The Scripture most often quoted was from Saint Paul: Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that […]
Masjid ul Aqsa fighting
Today the news came across about fighting at the Masjid ul Aqsa compound. Most of us in the USA know is as the Dome of the Rock. It is the third holiest site in Islam and the holiest site for Jews. Within its general area are both the mosque and the Wailing Wall. Of course, […]
On Patriarch Bartholomew and ecology
The day before yesterday, an Orthodox deacon posted a copy of the Opening Address of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Bartholomew at the Symposium on The Great Mississippi River held at New Orleans on Facebook. It was not a religious forum per se, and so the address was a carefully worded neutral beginning. Frankly, it was not one […]
Christians, Pastors, and Church pornography statistics
Father Orthoduck recently posted a series on Marge Simpson posing for Playboy magazine. As a result, Father Orthoduck received a comment from a person about the pornography industry in the United States. As a result, Father Orthoduck began to do some research on the subject, and came up with the following article. A 1996 Promise […]
On Frodo and post-traumatic stress syndrome – PTSD
Most Christians reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy never think about the symptoms that Frodo exhibited after his journey. By the time in the book that his behavior is described, we are near the end of the trilogy. By that time, we are all happy about the victories that have been won. The King […]
On the GOP and Jackie Robinson
From the GOP.com website: In 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball in the United States, as a first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Not only was he a great athlete, Jackie Robinson was also a great Republican. He campaigned for Richard Nixon’s presidential campaign in 1960 and then supported […]
The very image of a modern Orthodox
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I’m teeming […]
Those who can’t criticize
Every pastor that Father Orthoduck knows is aware of the phenomenon in the comic above. For every pastor has the opposite of the cheering squad sitting in one’s church. These are the people who are convinced that they could do it better, but won’t try. And, Father Orthoduck suspects that they won’t try simply because […]
Marge Simpson, we hardly knew ye
As Father Orthoduck has mentioned, the early feminist movement was completely against Playboy magazine, and was against pornography. So, how did it become acceptable for women to declare themselves feminist precisely by posing for Playboy? Yesterday Father Orthoduck pointed out that the answer is similar to and in parallel to what happened to the Radical […]
Marge Simpson, she sure could!
On Saturday Father Orthoduck quoted from Gloria Steinem, when she said: Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality. On Saturday’s post Father Orthoduck pointed out that she had also commented that: A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. So, how did the feminist movement go from the […]
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