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Hi all, I just had a friend ask for my perspective on the morality of genetic engineering, especially reintroducing traits that have been long extinct (a wooly mammoth, for example). I haven't really thought about it much, and wasn't sure, but said I'd try to think about it and get back to him...

I went to a service at the Santa Fe (New Mexico) cathedral on Sunday, and wanted to ask you guys what was going on, because I was a bit lost. Superficially I knew what was going on - they had combined a Vespers dedicated to Mary "La Conquistidora" with a knighting and coronation of re-enactors...

A couple of you may remember me: I used to be on a lot, but not post very much. Anyway, I wanted a second (well, more like fourth, but anyhow...) opinion about something. My OCF group is planning a RealBreak trip to Greece this spring, where they'll be working at a monastery there. I have the...

Starting a new thread so as not to derail existing ones... I was sitting here with my peanut butter and jelly sandwich (of a rather gourmet variety, actually) and tea, reading through some of these threads, and was struck a bit by the constant equation of Great Lent and "sacrifice." Indeed...

I'm doing a bit of informal research for an essay I'm writing, and would like all your guys' input: with what manner of attention ought men and women, surrounded in a hurricane of distraction and caught in the loop of our own petty thoughts; pulled this way and that by emotive songs and under...

Any guidlines? I need to have it done for next Sunday, and am making my own pattern.

So, I have this guy friend. We're pretty decent friends, and have known each other for about half a year, but not of the romantic kind. I was over at his house for pretty much seven hours today, cooking and chatting (wassail and medieval gingerbread, :yum: ), and had a lot of fun. Something...

This isn't actually theology, but it is related to this board. I was looking at some threads lately, and noticing something somewhat interesting -- there are a number of instances where people, instead of responding to an issue, will simply quote every Bible verse they can find that's in any way...

So, I've learned how to tie the knots as recommended by that one website (the only one I can find that gives any kind of instruction on the matter), but I hear that one is supposed to pray specific things while making a prayer rope. Does anyone know anythin about that? LIke, what prayers?

I was wondering if any of the more scholarly chaps or chappesses around here have any idea from whence came the doctrine of the assumtion of the Virgin Mary. I would be particularly interested in hearing about any mentions in (fairly) early Christian writings. Art before 1500 would be good as...

I hear all the time about ramantic gestures from guys, but rarely if ever for girls. So, what do your guys like in the way of sweet gestures of romance from girls? Or do we just do nothing? 'Cause that just doesn't seem fair or interesting.

I got an icon at a monestary, and am not exactly sure what's going on, other than that it's of Christ and the Theotokos. I'd specificly like to know what's written above their heads (see close-up). Can anyone help me out?

Are there any? For one of my classes we're required to write a reaction paper, formal analysis, and research paper, and class presentation on an artist of our chioce, and I thought that it would be really interesting to do something on specific Icons, since I don't know too much about them...

I'm sure you've covered this a gazillion times already, so if you could post a link, that would be good too. Otherwise... I'm having trouble figuring out what, exactly, Mormanism teaches. Last Summer I was in Salt Lake City, so I went to the visitor's center next to the Mormon Temple, but...

According to the Catholic encyclopedia there used to be some sort of readings or hyms or somesuch for the feast of the nativity of the Virgin Mary - does anyone know what they were? I think it said the service stopped being used regularly in 1955 or somesuch... Is there somewhere to look...

There's something I've been trying to figure out, but haven't quite managed lately; not about Orthodoxy, but this seemed the most likely place not to offend anyone. Please feel free to ignore me. What's up with college student "outreach" events where everyone just sits around talking about...

I think that's what it was anyway. We had a healing service instead of paraklesis tonight, and... WOW. I have no very clear idea of why we had it... I guess some people were sick or something... But what an amazing service! Kinda long though. So, could anyone fill me in on what exactly...

So, as most of you know, I'm a pretty serious inquirer in Orthodoxy, but I still go to things like evangelical Bible studies, and lately a baptist youth group. Well, they're nice and all, but word is getting around about the whole Orthodoxy obsession (no, I don't gush), so todey I got this...

I hope you don't mind too much if I ask this here... I'm working on an essay for Northern Rennaissance art history, and since most of the artwork is religious, my topic is on the relationship between the "devotional environment" at the time, and the artwork (stylistic, iconographic...

I was looking at The Spirit of the Liturgy by (formerly) Cardinal Ratzinger, and it has the most awesome icon on the cover. Does anyone know what the icon's called, or whether it's possible ot order a print? (The book was all wrapped up in plastic, so I couldn't find out the title or artist)...