Over the past several months Orthodoxy in Dialogue has issued a number of calls for articles on different topics. Some have generated responses, others have not. We repost the links here for our new readers who might like to write for us and as a reminder to our older readers. You need not be Orthodox to write for us so long as your article has some relevance to Orthodox Christianity.
Western Captivity of Orthodoxy?
Constantinople has never recognized Moscow’s church authority over Ukraine, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said during the 40th Day after death memorial service for Metropolitan Evangelos of Perga on 1 July.The head of the information department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, Archbishop Yevstratiy (Zorya), published this message of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s press service on Facebook.
“Let us not forget, at any rate, that Constantinople never denounced the territory of Ukraine in any way but the right of ordination of the Metropolitan of Kyiv in Moscow on condition of being elected in Kyiv at the Clerical Assembly and mentioning the Ecumenical Patriarch. This is said in the Tomos on autocephaly that the Mother Church gave the Polish Church: our See has never recognized the secession of the Kyiv Metropolis and its dependent Orthodox Churches of Lithuania and Poland and their attachment to the Moscow Church, which was carried not in accordance with ordinances and without respecting the rights of the Kyiv Metropolitan who had the title of an Exarch of the Ecumenical See,” Patriarch Bartholomew said.
He said that the Ecumenical See was looking forward to “the restoration of the unity of the divided ecclesiastical body in Ukraine – dozens of millions of believers, baptized and enlightened by the direct care and missionary activities of the Ecumenical See.” Read More
Father John Whiteford
On June 28 Father John Whiteford published his latest fit of hysteria, entitled The Living Church 2.0. In it he takes shots at Public Orthodoxy, The Wheel, Orthodoxy in Dialogue, the unnamed general editor of The Wheel (whose name everyone knows), Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware), Sister Vassa (Larin), and Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou.
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My response begins by exposing an outright lie by Father Whiteford when he writes, “The most recent issue of ‘The Wheel,’ a journal whose general editor is a lesbian….”*
Let me tell a story from my own admittedly short-lived priesthood (see my A Priest Forever? Reflections on a Bittersweet Anniversary):
On July 4, 1989, about three weeks before my 34th birthday, I landed with my wife and three small children in the speck-on-the-map town of Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. There I spent the second year of my priesthood in a parish of the Romanian Episcopate (OCA), which had two churches: one in town, beside which we lived; and the other—the original pioneer church—in the unfound-on-any-map Flintoft. The parish’s oral history disagrees on whether the iconostas in the “farm church” came from Mount Athos or Jerusalem. (I was amazed to hear my rough-and-tumble farmer-parishioners even speak of Mount Athos!) Suffice it to say that this iconostas stands out in astonishing contrast from the comic strip style of iconography found in most Canadian prairie churches of that era. From the small window beside the proskomedia table I could gaze from my spot before the altar table upon the graves of the parish’s forefathers and foremothers, a few cows grazing beyond the cemetery, and beyond them the endless prairies of southern Saskatchewan stretching into infinity like an undulating green sea.
I had not been in Assiniboia a month when a woman old enough to be my mother came to me: Read More
Since Orthodoxy in Dialogue launched in August 2017, June has been our highest month in the number of visitors and our second highest in the number of articles published. The month’s traffic has flowed mostly to our articles on the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border and the current issue of The Wheel.
If you haven’t yet participated in the parish life survey which we publicized on June 25, you may do so here.
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