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Fresh Eggs & Raising Chickens
One of my favorite memories of when
I was a little boy was collecting eggs
with my grandmother. When I got married
and we bought our first house, it didn’t take
me long to buy some chickens and start
collecting my own fresh eggs. My dad used
to incubate quail eggs, hatch them out, and
raise them which also influenced my love
for fowl. I incubated eggs in his old incubator,
put eggs under a setting hen, and
sometimes ordered baby chicks through
the mail. There was just something relaxing
about watching the chickens in the yard and
collecting those fresh eggs. It was also great
eating those fresh eggs too. A fresh egg
from chickens that are allowed to free range
in the yard looks and tastes totally different
than the eggs you buy in the big supermarkets.
An egg that comes from a home raised
chicken has a dark orange colored yolk and
the white of the egg is very firm. The egg
shell is also very tough and harder to crack
than store bought eggs. When hatching
your own chicks or even buying what is
known as straight run chicks, you end up
with more roosters than you need. The best
way to solve that problem is to raise them
till they are about 3-4 months of age and
have yourself a chicken killing. At 3-4 lbs
each, they make great fryers, chicken salad,
chicken soup, or any other way you prefer
your chicken. The meat from these chickens
also looks totally different than the chicken
meat you buy in the store. The meat is richer
in color and actually has some fat on the
carcass. Anyway, I highly recommend raising
your own chickens if you live in an area
where you can. If I ever get back to living in
the country again, chickens will definitely be
on my list of things to do.
By Jimmy Fleming mrflemz@embarqmail.com
Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a
diamond-studded wheelchair.
- Dorothy Parker
Orthodox Christianity by Fr Jonathan Tobias, MDiv, MSEd
Joseph and the New Decade
It’s hard to put the Orthodox Church on a political spectrum. If
asked whether Orthodoxy is Republican or Democrat, Conservative
or Liberal, an Orthodox Christian would (or should)
say “None of these.”
To be sure, the Orthodox Church has always taught what is
commonly called “traditional morality.” This includes a high view
of family life; sex within a heterosexual marriage; rejection of
abortion and euthanasia.
It is lamentable that these traditional affirmations are often taken
as a “rightwing” affiliation, and that Orthodoxy — just because it
is traditional — is lumped in with partisan politics.
This is not the case, mainly because there is a lot of Orthodox
traditional morality that cannot fit nicely into a partisan agenda.
From the time of the Lord’s ministry upon the earth, the Church
has always held to the standard “Put not your trust in mortal
princes” (Psalm 146.3). It has always criticized politics for its
tendency toward empty words, economic injustice, and oppression
of the weak and the poor.
The Orthodox Church has always waved the banner of protecting
humanity and the earth. St Gregory of Nyssa, writing in the
fourth century, condemned slavery outright: “… if God does not
enslave what is free, who is he that sets his own power above
God’s?” It is because of this old Christian tradition of human
dignity that the Orthodox Archbishop Iakovos joined with Martin
Luther King in the Selma March in 1965 — one of the few white
leaders who participated.
Gregory, along with many other Fathers of the Church, also
condemned “usury,” which is the charging of interest. And thus,
the Church has never signed on to an economics based on centralized
industrial profit-making. St John Chrysostom, later in the
fourth century, was never shy about denouncing the Emperor
and Empress for their failure to take care of the poor — sometimes
to their face while sitting in the balcony of the Cathedral
of the Holy Wisdom in Constantinople. He was frog-marched
across modern-day Turkey for his behavior, and died of exhaustion
along the way.
Such facts, indeed, do not fit within the simplistic labels of modern
politics. That is a good thing, actually. The Orthodox Church
is “traditional,” certainly: but it is neither Republican nor Democrat,
Conservative or Liberal, rightwing or leftwing just because
Orthodoxy witnesses to the whole Christian Tradition, not just
part of it.
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