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I can only speak for the situation in the UK with respect to orthodox (lower case) Anglicans. Your mileage may vary. These lads and lasses suffer from Line-in-the-Sand Syndrome, an all too common affliction that convinces few now and wearies most. "If my bishop / synod / conference etc...

Dear Monica I am agreeing with Orthodox Christian morality. What I am gently chiding is the "Now listen here young man" undertone of the some of the posts here. The reference to the 5th commandment related to posts that said (more or less) .... you've only got two years to go before you don't...

I don't post very often here ... and by the time I have finished on this one many will probably be thankful that I don't! Anyways ... Before we start jumping up and down about the 5th commandment let us recall that St. Paul counsels parents (fathers actually) not to provoke their children to...

Dear Shawners Have you heard of our tradition of Holy Fools? These were people who feigned madness (but did it so effectively, some began to wonder) but who were actually anointed healers, clairvoyants, discerners of spirits but out of extreme humilty wanted to be despised not well received...

Does life exist elsewhere in our Solar System? Maybe ... quiescent bugs in the Martian dirt, a few simple organisms in the ocean of Europa ... maybe a few methane metabolising critters (extremely slow moving) on Titan. Does life exist around the 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or so stars in...

I propose a new Church ... for the terminally gullible. The only qualifications for membership will be:- (1) An ability to part with money readily and generously. (2) A readiness to be sexually available at all times. (3) A facility for suspending all thinking and questioning and a taste...

Dear KATHXOYMENOC The Church's worship and ministry does evolve. At one time, for example, confession was in public before the whole community and the bishop! That didn't survive long and for reasons of confidentiality and discretion was replaced by private confession. The liturgical...

Dear EOE What are the gifts? Many of the gifts are listed by St. Paul but there is no reason to suppose that this is an exhaustive list. (Ephesians 4) 7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8 Therefore He says: “ When He...

... and you think I said something different? (Signing off now ... it's late here in the UK and I'm off to bed).

Dear Woobadooba Sorry, I hadn't equated having a meal with idolatry. Anyway, you have not considered my point about legalism and how a Christian lives in a non-Christian society.

There are several different possible responses assuming that one takes a Sabbatarian position on work and rest. These are governed by different approaches to the issue of Christ and Culture. (1) Withdraw completely from anything in society that might compromise discipleship. Taken to its...

We must say it to their faces ... We must have criticised ourselves first.

Thank you all for your gracious and lovely welcomes. I have been very remiss in not coming here for along time. I am resolved to hang around a lot more ... to learn and to share. I am more than happy to help with questions ... public and private messages are most welcome. I promise you that...

The full angelic hierarchy came to prominence somewhat late in Judaism and probably under Zoroastrian influence from further east. This does not invalidate such developments of course. By the time of our Lord the 7 primary Archangels were in place, but there was a lot of other murkier stuff...

This is my best resource ... there is a section on the Fallen Angels. http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/angels.htm Beyond this I believe it is dangerous to speculate. When I was an Anglican at theological college, my New Testament tutor (a fairly typical learned liberal...

Thank you Goodoldboy ... I am just getting used to what belongs where ... Your reply to Lucaspa is excellent in my view. In the Orthodox Church Tradition as the ONGOING work of the Holy Spirit in the WHOLE Church is the theological peer review par excellence. We abhor individual judgements...

Indeed it does Kolya. Nothing happens in creation and salvation history but that the Trinity acts in all as one.

The High Priestly prayer of Christ in John 17 makes it clear that all that Jesus has is from the Father and that in his glorification (death and resurrection) this priestly charge will be fulfilled and surrendered to the Father. We are talking about the dynamic of the Trinity here. The one...

Thanks John, I will.