Fr. Glenn: Discerning The Right And The Good
By Fr. Glenn Jones:
Saw an interesting story the other day in which the very well-known actor Kevin Bacon (Footloose, Apollo 13, A Few Good Men, Taking Chance, to name a few of his movies) went out amongst us hoi polloi and found that life without the privileges of fame just ain’t quite as easy. This isn’t to denigrate Kevin Bacon, who IS a great actor, but rather makes one reflect upon why so many people look to celebrities for life’s advice when they are often so insulated from the lives of the vast majority of common people.
But such stories and considerations DO elicit the thoughtful question: What/who Read More
All Shall Be Well: Treating Everyone With Dignity
Clergy from left, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill, Pastor Nicolé Ferry, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, Associate Priest Lynn Finnegan and Pastor Deb Church. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
By Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, M.Div.
ELCA
Faithful Christians claim to live by the tenets of Jesus, especially as they are outlined in his Sermon on the Mount. This sermon, especially as found in the Gospel of Matthew, chapters 5-7, clearly expounds on Jesus’ concept of the life of faith. Honest Christians will tell you, though, that it is not always easy to live according to Jesus’ teachings.
For example, Read More
Catch Of The Week: CDK Global Ransomware Attack
By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
For the Los Alamos Daily Post
Trying to buy a car from a dealership or get repair work done at a dealership? If you tried within the past two weeks, you might have been told they were unable to provide services … CDK Global, a provider of integrated information technology and digital marketing to the automotive, heavy truck, recreation, and heavy equipment industries, was hit by a massive ransomware attack in June.
What is CDK Global? They are a major provider of “computer-driven” dealership management systems, basically the auto dealership version of the EHR (electronic Read More
Theophan: The Art Of Raku
View of raku firing. Photo by Father Theophan
View of finished plate. Photo by Father Theophan
By Father Theophan
Saint Job of Pochaiv Orthodox Church
Los Alamos
A few weeks ago, for a friend’s birthday, we hosted a raku party and cook-out. It was pouring rain which dampened the cook-out a bit, but also mitigated the effects of the heat during the raku firings.
“Raku” is a variation of a Japanese ceramic firing technique that consists of preheating ceramic pots, firing them quickly to glaze maturity, and then removing them from the kiln and placing them in a post-fire reduction vessel. Now, granted, Read More
Amateur Naturalist: Small And Large Geologic Bands
By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos
Summer provides a good time for exploring and observing many aspects of the natural world around us. There are variations between the large and the small in geology. The canyons in the Pajarito Plateau provide parallel patterns on a large scale.
Picture 1 below is of Pueblo Canyon. It is about 3.5 miles from it upper to lower end of Los Alamos mesa. It is nearly a half mile wide at this lower end and 400 feet deep from mesa top to canyon bottom.
There are parallel layers that form the wall of Pueblo Canyon. These layers are called members. These are named the Tshirege member, the Read More
Blair: The Strength Of Our Center
By DONALD BLAIR
Political Commentator
The 4th of July has an All-American reputation as a communal day of cookouts, parades and fireworks. We view the holiday with a touch of nostalgia for a time when we could all celebrate together with a sense of national unity and shared pride in our country. But its origins may have more in common with our modern fractured time than we think.
The Declaration of Independence was actually controversial within Colonial America. John Adams himself reckoned that only one-third of the population supported independence. Historian Thomas Slaughter from the University Read More
Liddie’s Traditional New Mexican Dishes: Green Chile Scalloped Potatoes
Green chile scalloped potatoes. Photo by Liddie Martinez
By LIDDIE MARTINEZ
Española Valley
I have been making scalloped potatoes for many years, a dish I learned to make with my mother, but I did not think about adding green chile to the dish until years ago when I found myself with freshly roasted green chile left over from a batch prepped for chile rellenos.
I chopped the chile and thought I would add it as a topping to the baked potato bar as we were grilling steaks the following day.
Instead, I opted to make scalloped potatoes because I could make them ahead to serve later and that was when the recipe Read More
