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    Kallistos Ware Comes Out For Homosexual Marriage

    Kallistos Ware Comes Out for Homosexual "Marriage"
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    Baltimore Sun Article About Conversions to Orthodoxy

    My adopted home town has an article about Orthodoxy in it's main publication! Conversions gradually transforming Orthodox Christianity
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    Should a Priest Call you "Bro"

    A priest recently called me "bro". What do you guys think of that? It was in a context of a serious discussion.
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    Tiny House Orthodox Chapel

    What a great idea! We should have one of these in every major metro area. "Tiny-House" Orthodox Chapel
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    Non Orthodox Speaking At An Orthodox Event

    You guys ever hear of Doxacon? http://www.doxacon.org/ The one taking place near DC has Leah Libresco, a former atheist who converted to Catholicism, Wonderful girl, I'm friends with her on FB) as one of the speakers at the upcoming Doxacon event near DC. She is not Orthodox. What do you guys...
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    Surprising Statistics On Orthodoxy In America

    Two Surprising Statistics about Orthodox Christianity in America – Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
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    An "Apology" from P and P

    An Apology to the Eastern Orthodox Community Warning, this may make some of you very angry.
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    Blogpost About New Book By The Author of "The Shack"

    'Heresy Hunters' and 'Doctrine Police' - A response to Tim Challies' blog - John MacMurray Please read this guys when you get a chance. It's long, but, you'll be surprise by how, well, Orthodox this is. Background: Apparently, the author of "The Shack" (book and movie) has written another...
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    How Did You Know (for married folks here)

    How did you know you wanted to/were to marry the person you're married to now? Did you have 100% confidence that you were choosing the right person? How did you guys figure all this out?
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    How to Refute This

    How would you refute this? (paraphrased from a FB conversation with a Protestant) "regarding text and meaning I don't think you can artificially separate the two. The meaning is infalliable and so are the word combinations that create it." "you have to reckon with the fact that the earliest...
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    Who is Brad Jersak?

    So I met with a non Orthodox guy today to talk with him about Orthodoxy. He asked me if I've ever heard of someone named Brad Jersak. He said he thought he was Orthodox, and tells me that he has written a bunch of books and what not. I thought to myself, that is strange, with Orthodoxy being...
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    How Really Common Is Knowledge About Orthodoxy?

    How many people really know or are aware of Orthodoxy? I periodically meet or hear of someone who perhaps questions something about their faith tradition, or desires to have a more in depth faith, yet, upon meeting/talking with them, or hearing about them, very rarely do I hear or see them say...
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    How to Refute

    How to refute the claims that some people, even some Orthodox people make, that the sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church are "valid"? More specifically, that the Orthodox Church recognizes them as "valid"?
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    Intervarsity and Gay Marriage

    Interesting: http://time.com/4521944/intervarsity-fellowship-gay-marriage/?xid=homepage I was very involved with this group in my undergrad years, serving in a leadership position. What do you guys think from an Orthodox perspective? Any implications for OCF?
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    Christian Truth Article

    This new catechumen at my parish asked me to look over this article and tell him what I think about it: http://www.christiantruth.com/articles/orthodoxycominghome.html It's old I think, it's been around for a while. I remember seeing it floating around the internet a few years ago. Just...
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    Normalizing The Passions

    Where does this come from? Why do so many people nowadays feel that in order to have compassion on someone, and not judge them, they have to "normalize" their passion? Why do they find it difficult to have compassion and not judge, yet hold firmly to rejecting the passion as "normal"?
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    Interesting Commentary On An Article About the Russian State And The Church

    http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/russian-church-russian-state/
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    Blessed Feast!

    Blessed Feast of the Elevation of the Most Holy and Precious Cross! O Cross of Christ, save us by thy might!
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    Please Ban

    Moderators, Please ban Alonso Castillo. He has received numerous complaints and reports. He has been extremely disrespectful. He engages in name calling, trolling, and baiting. He has been asked to stop and has not.
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    Re-Introducing Christianity

    Well, it's about high time someone does this: http://blogs.ancientfaith.com/orthodoxbridge/book-review-re-introducing-christianity/ It took long enough but I hope it's a start. Haven't read the book yet, but I wanted to get the word out.