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Well, I’ve been Orthodox for over twenty years. Coming in as a middle-aged adult, I was humble enough but excited to join a Church where people maintained the same shared beliefs since the foundation of the Church. For the first new years, as a new convert, learning what was what, how we ought...

Hi all! I’m still here. That may sound wonderful or not, but if someone has chosen not to do away with himself, with a “yet” in parentheses always lingering, then it might be seen as a wonderful thing. I have felt as betrayed as one might be by one’s Church, by the support and encouragement...

Frankly, I love Fr Tom. I wish his voice was still a living voice. He goes off-base in a couple of places, in my opinion, but by and large, is a solid Orthodox voice. (I was disappointed in his final podcast, on remarriage in the Church, but that’s a topic that could go into the divorce thread I...

https://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/livewiththelouhs/coping_with_divorce I finally got to listen to the entire podcast. I don’t think the issue here is my personal opinions, but what is objective Church teaching in the sum of Holy Tradition and the consensus of the fathers and saints on that...

It’s 8 years old, but a lot of you might have missed this one - an animated Orthodox flick that deals with Stalinism and faith on a children’s level, “The Unusual Adventures of Seraphima”, set in Stalinist Russia during the war, it follows the experience of the daughter of a priest whose family...

How do I turn off these stupid notifications for these imaginary “blessings”? I can’t find the option in preferences, though there are a couple of dozen things you can be notified of.

We are now under the Serbian Church. Attended our first Liturgy. I understood half of the Liturgy with difficulty. (At least it’s a Slavic language). My iPhone is tied to the Russian App Store, which doesn’t seem to have much helpful in regards to the Church. Does anyone have helpful links for...

Can anybody tell me what a “lay chaplain” is? I know that “chaplain” is a Western term, and to the best of my knowledge, we have accommodated the use of the term in reference to priests serving among military forces, as our own Fr Matt does, though the word is alien, again, to the best of my...

Does anybody know if this line is in any of our services or prayers? "You strangled Satan, passion bearer, with the godly strings of your suffering" The only reference I found was from some recent obscure movie. I don’t need that.

This is a thread shift to avoid derailing the other thread on heresy. The essential thesis is that marriage, as taught by the Church, as evidenced by everything said in the consensus of the fathers, in Scripture, in the words of Christ, is that the modern attitude of marriage has infiltrated...

Last month, CF went down for a day, and since it came back up, it has become much harder for me to access the forums. At best, I am forced to wait 20-30 seconds (when “DDOS flare” promises “up to 5 seconds”), and very often have to run a gamut of captchas of boats and buses. It makes it more of...

Does anyone have any, specifically, in Berlin? I need to get a room or small apartment to rent or share, college-age female.

THIS IS A POST IN TAW FOR TAW MEMBERS (which includes honorary members). I don’t want to forbid all other posts, but I have no interest in a CF-wide discussion between people who do not agree on what Christian authority to teach us is. PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT THIS IS THE ORTHODOX...

my father-in-law, Vladimir, (84), suddenly very ill and we have no doctors.

When censorship abounds, it can become almost impossible to say anything. Still, Phil. 4:8-9... My wife and son and I are reading “Perelandra” together. The Un-Man is one who has given himself over wholly to evil in the name of his ideology. They are great books; Lewis was far more Orthodox than...

Orthodox only, please! This is actually a serious question, born of the disagreement over head covering and the insistence that it be a purely individual decision. There are plenty of voices that call for such individual choice for women. But my question, in all seriousness, is, what about...

(I can’t believe no one has posted this yet here this year.)

So I’m trying to make sense out of the recent controversy, do a little digging, and to my surprise, a central player is Greek Orthodox. Tim Tassopoulos, president and CEO of the company, seems to have had a lot to do with recent decision making, and it appears the decisions were made in order to...

ORTHODOX ONLY Why are the bishops silent when wolves in sheep clothing occupy positions of authority in the Orthodox Church teach openly in contradiction to Holy Tradition? (That ranges from a well-known English metropolitan to priests in the US and Europe openly promoting things like sodomic...

Has anyone seen, or is going to see this one? Or supporting it otherwise? I find it interesting how the big companies that are trying to rule us ever more directly have been trying to suppress it.