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My view is a bit more nuanced here, based on my experience. I wasn’t Orthodox when I got married. I would advise against marrying outside of the Orthodox faith, but I think it can be a blessing if the parter is a conservative, Trinitarian Christian who respects Orthodoxy. My wife is an Opus...

Do you mean Metropolitan Kirill? Whatever you feelings for him, he is an Orthodox hierarch and thus he merits to be called by his proper name. Where has Metropolitan Kirill said that there are “Nazis in Ukraine to fight”?

Lord have mercy!

Church Slavonic mostly. And that unfortunate.

That was a beautiful video and those two are both lovely, gracious Orthodox Christians. They live on the other side of the world from me and come from a different culture, but I felt a great affinity with them. “28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and...

I heard the recent interview by Father Steven Damick with Jonathan Pageau. https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/orthodoxengagement/the_inevitability_of_re_enchantment_jonathan_pageau_part_1 It sort of blew my mind. He is one of the most original thinkers I have heard in years. And totally...

There should be a film about Father Men. And Father Schmemann is my hero. Right as always Rus.

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St Irenaeus was not a Pelagian (either was Pelagius, arguably). But neither was he a Calvinist. He clearly espoused the Orthodox concept of synergy, which is found “everywhere, always and by everyone” in the Church Fathers. St Irenaeus paints a rich tapestry and is not easily pigeonholed, but...

Memory eternal!

He means this, as he goes on to say: “For the Churches which have been planted in Germany do not believe or hand down anything different, nor do those in Spain, nor those in Gaul, nor those in the East, nor those in Egypt, nor those in Libya, nor those which have been established in the central...

Well, since these Church Fathers knew the disciples of Christ, the historical method would dictate that such early witnesses would be a good starting point for answering the question you are asking. How did the earliest Christians understand the Scripture you cite? They knew Jesus or the...

Have you read St. Irenaeus? He attests to Church unity: As I have already observed, the Church, having received this preaching and this faith, although scattered throughout the whole world, yet, as if occupying but one house, carefully preserves it. She also believes these points [of doctrine]...

Have you read the writings of the Early Church? Clement of Rome, disciple of Paul? Ignatius of Antioch, disciple of John?

Based on the thousands of non denominational churches and my own experiences, as a former Evangelical, of several painful church splits. An Evangelical friend of mine once told me that he celebrated church splits. “That’s church growth!”, he remarked. Well, it was never thus in the Early...