Tag: Orthodox Church
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Steve the Builder: Orthodoxy and Homosexuality, Part 1
I haven’t listened to it yet but usually Steve the Builder has very good material. In this podcast Steve references an article he wrote for AGAIN Magazine on the Orthodox Church and same sex attraction. In it he shares the results of several interviews with Orthodox men and women who shared their backgrounds and experiences…
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The Future of the GOA Rests On 32 Celibate Clergy
The gene pool is shrinking. HT: Mystagogy According to the National Herald, the future leadership of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America rests on 32 qualified celibate priests out of the approximately 600 reported priests of the GOA. These numbers were issued out of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on 16 September 2009. Out of the 32…
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Faith to Faith: Russian Patriarch ending landmark Armenia visit
ArmeniaNow.com Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill is completing today his three-day visit to Armenia during which he and his Armenian counterpart accentuated the strong bonds between the two churches and peoples. As part of the visit staged at the invitation of the Catholicos of All Armenians, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church…
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Fr. George Nicozisin: The Mission of the Greek Orthodox Church in America
Fr. George Nicozisin was one of the most respected clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church of the last generation. Reading through this essay he wrote a while back (I could not find the date), you can see why. There were (and presumably still are) men who understood the evangelical mission of the Orthodox Church. Fr.…
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Abp. Nathaniel of Detroit: Orthodoxy in North America
Romanian Orthodox for Enquiry in America “The demands upon our Church’s life by an un-believing society do not allow for any further delay in this process.” Ligonier: Statement on the Church in North America, 1994 I. Three Autocephalous North American Churches. The Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Commission determined that the Church on the North American Continent region…