Christ is Risen!


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Sarx (σαρξ) is the Greek word for "flesh". This is the blog of a Southern Man (sojourning in Buffalo, NY) attempting to follow God in the way of Jesus.

I am a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church in America (ROCIA). We are growing a Mission community here in Buffalo.

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Disclaimer

I who have written this story, or rather this fable, give no credence to the various incidents related in it. For some things in it are the deceptions of demons, other poetic figments; some are probable, others improbable; while still others are intended for the delectation of foolish men. (Closing lines of the Táin Bó Cúalnge)

ARGH updates…

EEN A GOOD Day since my earlier post:
UPDATE (1): Fr Peter responds in grace and love and keeping to the traditional teachings of his church. Amen!
Update (2) Rick Warren does the right thing
UPDATE (3) Rod’s on board.
Update (4) The Vatican Chimes in today as well.
They all hedge their bets but that’s ok: I [...]

ARGH.

HINGS THAT MAKE You want to be an atheist…
1) I do, really, believe there is a right way to do CHristianity and a wrong way to do it.
2) I do, really, believe that this right and wrong has little to do with “doctrine” per se (iota sized technicalities about begetting and essence and accident and [...]

I’ve always wanted to be Opressed.

NSECURITY IS HIGH AMONG Alleged heterosexuals, according to the Episcopal Cafe:
Canon Chris Sugden of Anglican Mainstream… says, “The festival will be full of families with teenage children, a ready audience who might be persuaded by his [Bishop Gene Robinson's] sophisticated presentation technique.
OMG, is it really that easy to make gay people out of self-identited [...]

ACNA+OCA=AOCANA?

ORD ON THE Street is that Mtr Jonah of the OCA told the new Anglicans that he would break off Ecumenical Discussions with ECUSA and take ‘em up with them.
I can’t find the transcript on the OCA site and can’t bring myself to listen. So maybe. (Although in the past not finding the [...]

Curiouser and Curiouser

Christ is Risen!

HOSE OF You following the Anglican Schism In Process will be interested to note that Speakers have been announced for ACNA Assembly.
Pastor Rick Warren, Metropolitan Jonah, and the Rev. Todd Hunter have agreed to be among those addressing the organizing Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America scheduled for June 22–25 [...]

Really, it’s the Anti-Gay Doctrine

AKING up this AM, this thought about the Anglican Creature that’s co-inhabiting North America with all the other Anglican Bodies popped into my head: the Roman news in the preceding post only happened to fit by coincidence, as it were.
Dear Conservative Anglicans,
If you want to schism off and say Anglicans in Canada and the USA [...]

It’s the Anti-Gay Doctrine, Stupid

AVING THE earth means a lot more than recycling, you silly people. Benedict the Sixteenth Agrees: there’s only one sin left – although he seems to phrase it this way: Rejecting Mediaeval, scholastic understandings of platonic readings of Biblical Texts puts the entire world at peril.
Joy.
Not only does Myth Rule, but we can’t understand [...]