Fr. Oliver Herbel – AOI - The American Orthodox Institute

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Source: Frontier Orthodoxy

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Or view the video on the Red River Freethinkers website.

Fr. Herbel adds:

Now, you should keep a few things in mind. First, this is about two hours long. Second, I will get a transcript in English and Russian online soon enough, but I am reliant on Evgueni Kadossov for both. I haven’t the time to do either, least of all the Russian version. Third, there were likely places where both Davis and I would have liked to press the other, but we had committed to keeping things civil. I think it is a worthwhile enterprise to do just that.
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Fr. Oliver Herbel

The folks over at the always-interesting Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas are introducing a new column called Frontier Orthodoxy by Fr. Oliver Herbel. Fr. Herbel provides an introduction to his work, and some biographical detail, and what surely is the Quote of the Week in the Orthodox Christian blogosphere:

I have come to see that modesty is a virtue that is in very very very short supply in our culture, that love and kindness are all too often hard to come by, and that courage and fortitude are rare on the issues that count and abundantly present in the face of some of the least important issues in life. Most importantly, I have learned that if one wants to be in the Ark, the Church of Christ propagated through the Apostles, one has to enter the Holy Orthodox Church and put up with the breath taking stench. The other option doesn’t stink, of course, but a rotten smell still beats lungs full of water.