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This past weekend there was a situation with in-law relatives that involved our daughter potentially attending a protestant church (covenant baptist?). Our daughter was staying at the relatives for the week through Sunday, so naturally church attendance came up. We coordinated with a good...

The Forbidden Fruit company is set to release another wave of distractions. The negative possibilities of this would be endless. If the Church is seeing less parishoners now because of livestreamed video liturgies, imagine if parishoners started creating their own AI augmented parishes to attend...

What is the normative practice? Is economia the rule or the exception? Is akriveia the rule or the exception?

A very good talk from a local pastor:

Orthodox thread There is simply Orthodox or not Orthodox. If you hold to the Traditions and teachings of the Church you’re Orthodox. If you don’t hold to the Traditions or innovate the teachings you’re not Orthodox. Using labels like “Conservative” or “Liberal” to describe Orthodoxy puts the...

“His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, issued a statement. In it, the hierarchs reaffirm the Church’s unchanging teaching that sexual activity is blessed only within the confines of a marriage of a man and a woman, and thus “call upon all clergy, theologians, teachers, and lay persons within the...

This topic is stolen from elsewhere, but I thought it was a fun way to tier the major jurisdictions. The below ranking is the top post from that site: GOARCH: National Big Box Retailer Antiochian & OCA: Small, Local Shop ROCOR & other Slavic Jurisdictions: Roadside Fruit Stand

*Eastern Orthodox Thread* There is a struggle within Christianity right now between those who want to retain its traditional moral and social teachings and those who seek to modernize and conform Christianity to the liberal democratic order of the west. We saw this in Protestant churches...

so, reading over Deut. 6 and I was wondering if we could put the shema on our doorposts like the Jews do, but not because the Jews do it, but because it doesn’t seem like a bad practice to see it there upon entering or exiting the front entrance. Is this an objectionable thing to do? My wife...

There's a video of St. Gabriel revealing a saint and how a true human flows with God’s Grace. It’s not forced. It just Is. I later learned that it’s him who is depicted in icons burning an image of Lenin. His prophecy of the Antichrist is especially troubling, but there is hope for God’s...

What language did you read? What was the most peculiar language at your parish? I read in Japanese, but the most peculiar was Anglo Saxon. Maybe next year there will be Elvish or Klingon (if that’s allowed). I had to bring my own Bible because the way it’s written in the booklet was without...

A new Christian metal band has released its first single. Very promising. Theocracy is another great Christian metal band.

When I first became Orthodox I thought I'd have trouble getting over heterodox Easter, but truth be told I didn't even realize it was their Palm Sunday yesterday. It seems I've just about thoroughly gotten over heterodox Easter as it is not even on my radar anymore. Took about 3 years from...

“I’ve known for many years that the Church in America has fallen to the lowest spiritual state of its entire existence. I’ve tried to warn Christians in both this column and my public speaking to the dismal state of today’s churches. Faithful readers are very much aware of those warnings. But...

They are western rite and the website looks iffy. They don't seem like "True Orthodox," but they seem to want to be in communion with the rest of the Church... They have a parish in my city, so I was curious. The Orthodox Archdiocese of America (theorthodoxchurch.org)

In 2014 (or thereabouts), 21 Copts finished the race and were gloriously crowned with martyrdom at the hands of ISIS. Meanwhile, in America the question of gay and female priests are being discussed because those are the major issues in first-world Christianity. Go America! fReEdOm AnD dEmOcRaCy!

New evidence proves Charles Darwin stole Theory of Evolution from rival naturalist | Daily Mail Online "Charles Darwin is credited with transforming the understanding of natural history – but a new book claims to have found evidence that he stole his Theory of Evolution. Written by an...

This is a thread to keep track of the GOA, and the phanar. To start off: Two years ago Abp Elpi marched with BLM because he saw himself as a modern day Apb Iakovos who marched with MLK Jr: Abp. Elpidophoros on the BLM march: It was my duty as a Christian and Greek, inspired by Pat. Bartholomew...

What was World War One about? How did it start? Who won? And what did they win? Now, 100 years after those final shots rang out, these questions still puzzle historians and laymen alike. But as we shall see, this confusion is not a happenstance of history but the wool that has been pulled over...

From the horse’s mouth: Archbishop Elpidophoros Statement on Visit to Embassy of Ukraine - Messages - Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America GOA stands with State Department against Russian Church, archbishop tells Ukrainian ambassador GOA stands with State Department against Russian Church...