My post today for my 40 days of blogging is over at the Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy blog. Here’s an excerpt: One of the things I’ve noticed in recent years is the growth of all kinds of “Post-_______” Christianity. By this I mean varieties of Christianity that are all generally within the Evangelical Protestant genre yet explicitly do not embrace any particular tradition. Typically, whatâŠ
It’s been astounding over the past few days to watch the fundraising campaign for Fr. Matthew Baker’s widow Presbytera Katherine and their six children raise so much in such a short time. (And if you are able to give, please do. That may look like a lot, but the Bakers will be dealing with a loss of income that will affect them for manyâŠ
One of the criticisms of Orthodoxyâs understanding of its own history (not to mention, Roman Catholicismâs) is that there really is no unbroken Christian tradition of anything at all, that Church history is really just about multiple movements, doctrines and practices that cannot coherently be traced back to the Apostles. This is essentially one version of the historiography of the anti-ecclesiologists. If there isâŠ
I believe that the church in which I was baptized and brought up âisâ in very truth âthe Churchâ, i.e. âthe trueâ Church and the âonlyâ true Church . . . I am therefore compelled to regard all other Christian churches as deficient, and in many cases can identify these deficiencies accurately enough. Therefore, for me, Christian reunion is simply universal conversion to Orthodoxy.âŠ
