This is the full text of a chapter from my book-in-progress, Our Life in Christ: Orthodox Spirituality for Gay Men. We published excerpts from this chapter in August of last year.

Born this Way! Not a Choice! Love is Love!

Rallying chants like these arise in reaction to the oppression we and our other LGBTQ siblings often endure from family, social circle, faith community, society, the state. They foster a bond of community among queer people by reaffirming the social and religious legitimacy of who we are. We know they convince no one within or outside the Church whose heart is hardened against us.   

For us Orthodox, the mystery of human sexuality is rooted in something deeper than catchphrases from either side of the affirmation vs. condemnation chasm. The sexual dimension of human nature falls within the scope of theological anthropology, that is, what it means theologically to be human. This, in turn, shapes our spirituality as Orthodox gay men. Read More

Join us Friday, January 30, 2026, as the Very Rev. Dr. Andrew Louth, renowned Orthodox scholar presents the 43rd Annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture: “Shadows and Darkness in Patristic Theology.”

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The following statement appeared on November 19, 2025 on the website of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate under the title Archons Question White House Meeting with Russian Orthodox Clergy Who Are Lobbyists for Putin. (See also What Is an Archon?) The Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ), characterized previously by Orthodoxy in Dialogue as “little more than one of the two arms of the Moscow Patriarchate’s disinformation apparatus,” has responded with a series of condemnations of the Archons’ statement by various authors. (See, for example, Serbian Dean Denounces Archons’ Statement on Pan-Orthodox Advocacy for UOC. The UOC, or Ukrainian Orthodox Church, is the Kremlin’s ecclesiastical operation in Ukraine, as distinguished from the OCU, or Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which was granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in January 2019.)

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Grant rest eternal in blessed repose, O Lord,

to the souls of Thy servants who have fallen asleep,

and may their memory be eternal.

Memory eternal. Memory eternal. Memory eternal.

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