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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. [...]

T’S THAT Time of year again: July the 17th, or, possibly, the 4th. July 14th, too. Hither and thither you’ll find sundry pious types (mostly RCs and EOs) lamenting the fall of the Russian and French Monarchy – usually with true reports of the atrocities that followed the fall of those kings.
The death [...]

ORMALLY, Yer Host is bothered by the rather spooky and romantic style of late 19th Century Russian Icons. I have no theological issue, as do some: I just don’t like ‘em.
The Shrine of the Holy Whapping introduces us to the work of the Russian artist and iconographer, Viktor Vasnetsov. His style [...]

N CASE You’ve missed the political points that are being driven home this week: Russia : Georgia :: USA : (Iraq*Kosovo). Oh, and we’re hypocritical snots.
Mind you: I support the rights of small peoples to demand independence – especially when it’s a case of Genocide in the Name of Jesus.
But I think [...]

HE Globe and Mail asks one of the more important questions of the week: Is Russia morphing into another USSR?
“Moscow apparently calculates that its brute seizure of another country’s territory can be disguised as a ‘peacekeeping’ operation to prevent ‘genocide’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ by the Georgians. A sophisticated press operation to popularize this mendacious [...]

N 1931 Japan manufactured an “incident” and used that event as an excuse to invade China. Japan claimed that she had been attacked and the resulting invasion was only to protect herself from the horrid Chinese. In fact, it was a land grab for oil and resources.
The US has recently pulled the same [...]