Recent content by Lotar

It's more convenient to just refer to him as He who must not be named, the Mouth of Sauron, or something similar.

https://www.christianforums.com/threads/anybody-know-these-guys.1905372/page-2#post-17280296

I chose the tag as a joke many years ago. I only came by because gzt posted about this on Facebook. It's not at all reaching. Name a single Orthodox Church that has a policy forbidding contraception. There aren't any. Even the Russians allow it.

Wrong. I have a child that was conceived while on chemotherapy, and has severe health issues likely do to that, because we were idiots and listened to him. Which was, directly from him, we had permission to practice nfp, or we could use condoms and not have communion, ever, unless we don't have...

You can go by what every single Orthodox Church says everywhere and use contraception, or you can listen to some crazy convert priest in California and a smattering of quotes from saints who lived before the modern understanding of conception and modern methods of birth control. Just saying.

If it's a hospital, I will go by Eastern Orthodox or Greek Orthodox, since those are most likely to get you the right cleric if something should go wrong.

IE, you want her to suggest that maybe her son is in fact not gay, but risked possible rejection and condemnation by his religious parents because he wanted to be in the "in crowd." How absurd is that? Maybe I'm strange, but I tend to trust my kids.

She never said to find a church that would "indulge his passions." She said finding a more accepting church is an option. Which can mean anything from a church that deny communion but does not stigmatize him, to a church who a church that tells him it's not sin, with plenty of variation between...

Macarius, Firstly, if the reason for instituting English in the Liturgy was distinctly anti-Orthodox, then it would have been capitulating. That is why I state that the woman deaconate should not be restored, at this time. Not because it is wrong, or cannot be restored, but because it would be...

Macarius, "Capitulation" and "accessibility" are equivalents in the way you are using them. By "accessible" you mean palatable or pleasing to modern sensibilities without reference to traditional sensibilities. The point being that women can already be in the choir, leading the choir, be a...

Macarius, Women deacons were not ordained in the manner of men deacons. The funtion of women deacons was chiefly that of baptizing women converts, since at that time baptisms were done in the nude. Could the woman deaconate be restored? Sure it could. Should it? At this time it should not...

There are differing opinions on this, but violence is never good and even a soldier must have a time of penance for killing. On the extreme side, there are monks who try to not kill even insects. The Orthodox have a long history with the State as well, though in a different manner. The...

Here's one that makes my wife mad when I sing it to our son: In Yarmouth town there lived a man He had a little tavern by the strand And the landlord had a daughter fair Pretty little thing with golden hair [Chorus:] Won't you come down Won't you come down Won't you come down to Yarmouth town...

Well, I was Lutheran when I posted this thread. :D

...here is the sort of thing you are going to get from these types: http://www.prayerbookatlambeth.org/interviews/2008/7/28/an-interview-with-the-most-revd-kallistos-ware-archbishop-of.html