In Orthodoxy in Dialogue’s Facebook group we are discussing whether to begin allowing comments on the blog.

So far the polling has overwhelmingly opposed the idea. Those proffering reasons for their opposition basically agree with our original decision in August 2017 to disallow comments: experience shows that comments descend so quickly to the level of rank incivility—especially when commenters hide behind fake names—that it cheapens the publication and focuses readers’ attention more on the comments than on the actual substance of the articles. 

Be that as it may, as an interesting experiment we have opened comments on the following four posts: Read More

This article refers mainly to the Josiah Trenham: The Scandal section in Orthodoxy in Dialogue’s Archives 2020, to which a number of new titles will be added beginning the evening of February 12.

Via multiple posts and articles full of hysteria, wild exaggerations, distortions, and innuendos Giacomo Sanfilippo (also known as Peter J. SanFilippo), has been relentlessly defaming and attacking several Orthodox Christian priests, bishops, and seminary professors. Why? Because these men dare to publicly and fearlessly defend the Orthodox Church teaching on homosexual sin and warn the Church about many false teachers (like Sanfilippo) and deceitful venues that question, challenge, mock, deconstruct, contradict, and distort Church teaching, practices, and theology, especially regarding morality, human sexuality, and marriage.

Since 2017 Sanfilippo has used his inappropriately named “Orthodoxy in Dialogue” website, his Facebook pages, and his Twitter accounts to maliciously condemn these good men and smear their reputations. Sanfilippo has launched an unholy personal vendetta against these priests and teachers and is fomenting rebellion inside the Holy Orthodox Church. Read More

Over the weekend Orthodoxy in Dialogue reached the amazing milestone of 500,000 views in our short two and a half years of publication. It’s you—our loyal readers, subscribers, Twitter followers, Facebook group members, Patrons, guest writers, letter writers, and even our haters!—who have made this possible. Thank you so much!

Many, many thanks also to the several of you who, your names unknown to each other, not only bought us a new computer but paid our WordPress fees through July 2021. Only with your generous contributions are we able to carry on.

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Less than an hour ago I was posting a discussion question to Orthodoxy in Dialogue’s Facebook page when I was thrown off Facebook. I was put through a series of security steps, made to submit a photo of myself, and told that my “submission” is “under review.”

Friends have emailed and tweeted to tell me that my personal page and everything I have ever posted to our Facebook group have vanished.

I’m wondering if one of Orthodoxy in Dialogue’s more devoted and ambitious enemies is messing with us. Read More