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HIS CAME Across the AP yesterday, pointed out to me by a friend on Twitter.
Russian Orthodox Church embraces gays.
“IS OUTRAGE!” says Fr Vasili, I’m sure: not lamenting the sudden embrace, but rather the misleading headline. Be sure to read the AP story: essentially gay is still bad, but we oppose persecution of gays. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

EWLICIOUS Writer, Sarke, has an email conversation with her buddy, Earl, about living inside structures. I’m sorry to say she parallels religion with suburbia, but other than that, it works. She well points out from an Orthodox (Jewish) point of view why it is that the traditions and community of her chosen path [...]

T ONE TIME, As many readers know, I attempted to live out what I saw as Theological Orthodoxy within a “canonical” Orthodox Church. At the time this included traditional teachings on human sexuality: these are heteronomative assumptions of monogamy equated with divine revelations of morality – and to make that statement I do not [...]

ERE’S A Short film (shared by Joshua on his FB) explaining an Eastern Christian response to the rather common question, “Are you Saved?”

OMEN, Of course, enjoy a full spectrum of freedom in conservative, traditional religion provided they wear a hijab or an acceptable substitute. (Such conversations remind me, fondly, of Fr Joseph’s reference to converts in the Orthodox Taliban and jokes about the Ortho-Burqa.)

The Readings for Sunday, August 2, Proper 13 (18) Year B, Revised Common Lectionary:
2 Samuel 11:26 – 12:13a

Psalm 51:1-12

Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15

Psalm 78:23-29  

Ephesians 4:1-16

John 6:24-35

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. But speaking the truth in [...]

ER HOST IS GREATLY DISTRESSED to read the right saying there is only one correct way to do something and so we’d better do it. The left responds by saying there is no one right way… except there is, clearly, one right way: their way, and we’d better do it. Both have facts [...]

HE Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church has recently pissed off a number of her detractors. She’s called the idea of “individual salvation” a heresy.
The crisis of this moment has several parts, and like Episcopalians, particularly the ones in Mississippi, they’re all related. The overarching connection in all of these crises has to [...]