Pharmacists Sue State Over ‘Morning-After Pill’ Requirement

Pharmacists Sue State Over ‘Morning-After Pill’ Requirement SEATTLE — Pharmacists have sued Washington state over a new regulation that requires them to sell emergency contraception, also known as the “morning-after pill.” In a lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday, a pharmacy owner and two pharmacists say the rule that took effect Thursday violates their civil [...]

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Latin & Greek Study Groups

Wanna learn Greek and/or Latin by email, for free? Check out: Latin & Greek Study Groups. Back in the 1999-2000 timeframe I took part in some Latin email learning. It’s great stuff. I highly recommend it.

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Vocation Again

From the ochlophobist: Tom would tell me, later in the game, that as a white male, even from appalachia, I stood very little chance of getting tenured anywhere other than an Evangelical Christian college, and that I should thus change disciplines. I wandered about, eventually getting my education in the classics of the West not [...]

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Captain Obvious, Meet Clueless Man

So, it turns out the Pope is Roman Catholic, huh.  What a shock.  I suppose the next thing we’ll learn is that the earth is a sphere and not flat. The media must think that Rome has never declared itself the one, and only, true Church. And, of course, they are playing up the notion [...]

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Is An Ecumenical Council Authoritative Enough? (More on Eastern and Western Papal Claims)

Well, Cathedra Unitatis, to give him credit, did take notice of the post put up by Perry taking a cite from the 5th Ecumenical Council.  The discussion there is well underway now, with about 45 responses at the time of this post. Relative to papal claims, why is this important?  In summary, because it establishes, [...]

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Fourteen Days, Three Thousand Three Hundred Forty-One Pages

Which works out to about 238 or 239 pages per day. What am I talking about? Reading the Harry Potter books (the first six) prior to the release of the final book. I normally don’t start through the books until after (sometimes well after) the release of the newest book. But given what could possibly [...]

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Yee-freakin’-haw!! I Have GOT to Try This!!

Courtesy of Aaron (Dang!  I want to do the 4th with them guys next year!!)

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Interview with Fr Bob Stanford About the Orthodox Study Bible (from CRTL)

An interview with Fr Bob Stanford on The Orthodox Study Bible (mp3 file).  (It starts about 13:37.)

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Western and Eastern Papal Claims (the Debate on Which This Post Will Not Resolve)

The blogger at Cathedra Unitatis, writes in a recent post: I do not pretend, nor have I ever pretended, that this blog is neutral. It is an exploration of the theological and historical claims of the Papacy. I currently lean strongly towards the veracity of these claims (as anyone who reads this blog can obviously [...]

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Synodikon of Orthodoxy

From the introductory paragraph to the Synodikon of Orthodoxy: The text of the Synodikon of Orthodoxy has been much altered over the centuries, chiefly by the addition of material and names that postdate the Restoration of the Icons in 843. This is the case with the text that is printed in the current Triodia. Some [...]

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