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Nativity Fast

Each year brings a cycle of return. This is now my second Nativity Fast as an Orthodox Christian. There were five such fasts as I made my way toward the Orthodox Church. No two have been the same. Each, especially the last two, have carried significant sorrows as well as wonderful joys. I think I’m [...]

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No Greater Love

For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. (1 John 3:20) There is no sin that surpasseth the loving-kindness of God. –St. Spyridon of Tremithus (Saint Spyridon of Tremithus: Life, Miracles, Liturgical Service, and Akathist Hymn [St John of Kronstadt Press 1997], p 21) In three day’s [...]

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Election of OCA Metropolitan

According to the AFR website, Bishop Jonah has been elected Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in America! Axios!! Many years!! From the OCA website: Bishop Jonah of Fort Worth Elected Metropolitan of All America and Canada Posted 11/12 PITTSBURGH, PA [OCA Communications] — On Wednesday, November 12, 2008, His Grace, Bishop Jonah of Fort Worth [...]

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Ancient Faith Radio is podcasting the 15th All American Council of the OCA. Click on the link to listen/download the podcasts.

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Eis polla eti, Despota!

Archimandrite Jonah elevated to Auxiliary Bishop: On Saturday, November 1, 2008, Archimandrite Jonah (Paffhausen) was consecrated Bishop of Forth Worth and Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of the South, at St. Seraphim Cathedral, Dallas, TX. Consecrating hierarchs included His Eminence, Archbishop Dmitri of Dallas and the South, Locum Tenens of the Metropolitan See; His Grace, [...]

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On the Priesthood of All Believers

I’d seen in my blog’s tracking stats, that a three-year-old post, Open Theism and the Essence-Energy Distinction, has been getting a bit of traffic recently, so I re-read it, and while doing so it occurred to me that definitional divine simplicity impacts the biblical doctrine of the priesthood of all believers creating a distortion that [...]

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In a previous post, I cited some ancient Christian teaching regarding the mind and the spiritual battle waged in the arena of thoughts. I want to return to the topic again, this time with some personal reflections. The past three months in particular have been a rather specific engagement with the notion of spiritual warfare [...]

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