Identifying Ducks

Identifying Ducks The Rev. Joseph Winston August 22, 2010 Grace and peace are gifts for you from God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.1 There is a phrase that tells you something is not quite right. Maybe you have heard it, “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.” (That is a mouthful.) The first recorded reference to a sentence like this was sixty years ago.2 The USA was in the middle of the Cold War with the former USSR and its satell