NOVEMBER & DECEMBER 2020

4th Annual Christmas Appeal to Feed the Homeless

Dearest Mr. President-Elect: You Offer Hope for a Better Future

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Patriarch of Serbia Falls Asleep in the Lord this Morning from Covid

Doctoral Thesis Proposal: Father Pavel Florensky’s Orthodox Theology of Same-Sex Love

Orthodox Nutjob Launches Petition against the Assembly of Bishops

December 1 Is Giving Tuesday!

Archbishop David of Alaska (OCA) Falls Asleep in the Lord

Memory Eternal ~ Вѣчная Память: Priest Pavel Florensky

Why on Earth Did I Believe That?

Metropolitan Joseph Orders Disobedience of Covid Protocols; Josiah Trenham, Deacon, Parishioners Test Positive

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Thy Nativity, O Christ our God, has shone on the world the Light of knowledge,

for by it, those who worshipped the stars were taught by a star to adore Thee, the Sun of righteousness,

and to know Thee, the Sunrise from on high!

O Lord, glory to Thee!

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Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One,

and the earth offers a cave to the Unapproachable One!

Angels with shepherds glorify Him!

Wise men journey with a star!

Since for our sake the Pre-Eternal God is born as a little Child!

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On this, the great feast of the Birth of Our Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ in human flesh from the womb of His Most-Pure Mother, the Most-Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, we greet our brothers, sisters, and friends in Christ everywhere around the world, our readers and followers, our writers, those who love us and those who hate us, those who have sinned against us and those against whom we have sinned, those who consider us their friends and those who consider us their enemies. Christ is born! Glorify Him!

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The once globally revered St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary has lost all credibility as a serious institution of Orthodox theological learning. The nauseating poster displayed above must have Father Alexander Schmemann of thrice-blessed memory rolling in his grave. It does not bode well for the future of the episcopate, priesthood, diaconate, and lay workers for generations to come in the Orthodox Church in America and beyond.

That one of the greatest embarrassments to Orthodoxy in America should be invited not only to write the foreword to a book of Father Schmemann’s talks, but to deliver the annual lecture named for him at what used to be one of the world’s foremost Orthodox theological schools, is emblematic of the cesspits that the OCA’s two main seminaries—St. Vladimir’s and St. Tikhon’s—have gradually become under Metropolitan Tikhon (Mollard)’s primatial watch.

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The other day I sat down with a book—look, it’s a lockdown, there’s a lot of sitting down with books going on—in this case, Chasten Buttigieg’s I Have Something to Tell You.

I feel like this book provided me with a lot of things, not the least a burning curiosity about Wisconsin.

Mostly I was amazed at how much this book instantly resonated with me, who was once a terribly confused autistic child who had never even heard of autism. I’ve never been able to experience that kind of feedback loop before; it was unexpected. Chasten Buttigieg’s description of his own journey, the feeling of not-belonging, of feeling different, of knowing this being different was considered wrong somehow, immediately clicked with me, however different the reason. This book showed me a kid (I’m past 40 now, I get to call 18-year olds “kids”) struggling to make sense of himself in this world, and the thought of someone seeking to hurt that kid was utterly repulsive.

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