The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

How poor we would be indeed without Arm and Hammer baking soda -- the socialist toothpaste. Once the Obama "reforms" have ben completed I look forward to using it on a regular basis. Hammer branched out and was allowed to build toothpick factories in the new Soviet Union. If it weren't for him so ...

Joanna:

Fr Mark is right to encourage us to veer back towards the topic -- if not quite arriving at it...

Russia (a nation) became Orthodox. Before that they were well-known for their full-blown paganism.

At what point does referring to one's own "nation" become legitimate anyway?

When does a ...

Maybe she was referring indirectly to her own background and how it currently still affects her life in the Church.

In contrast to yourself who -- or might I say "which" (because inanimate objects feel nothing) -- is affected by nothing; being apparently frozen into a form of Byzantine "Orthodoxy ...

11 September 2009, 15:04

Russian Church Outside of Russia defrocked the bishop who spoke against
its reunion with Moscow Patriarchate

New York, September 11, Interfax – Bishops Synod of the Russian Orthodox
Church Outside of Russia decided to defrock Bishop Agafangel (Pashkovsky)
who joined ...

Dear Pravo:

A wonderful experience to be sure. But you still are not Russian. You are an American raised and reared in an environment of radical secular humanism. You will never escape your background to the degree you might wish. God does not make us what we are not but more fully what we are. You ...

Bless his heart. Fr. Alexey wrote many wonderful things.

It may have been in the times following the death of his wife.

In any case, he eventually dropped his momentary facination with evangelicals converting to "orthodoxy" through the Antiochian jurisdiction in America.

elias

Perhaps they found out that Fr. Alexey started a Western rite Orthodox parish (St. Augustine's) with the Antiochians at one time.

elias

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This 1994 book review by Fr, Alexey Young has been erased from the 0rthodox America online offerings.