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The Evils of Modern Feminism

Here’s my recent interview by Rafael Flores of the Orthodox Pill Podcast. Rafael is a very bright young fellow with a natural talent for interviewing guests about difficult topics. We covered a lot of ground in this interview, including the … Continue reading

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Origenism in the Service of Feminism à la Larchet

Jean-Claude Larchet has a new book out entitled Renewing Gender: An Orthodox Perspective. It is not a very Orthodox book, however. How can you be Orthodox and publicly accuse the Orthodox Church of having been wrong all along, even now, … Continue reading

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New Article: “The Image of God in Male and Female”

Are men more like God than women are? That is the implication of many arguments against ordaining women as bishops, priests, or deacons. Whether the argument is that priests “icon” Christ in the Divine Liturgy, acting in persona Christi; or … Continue reading

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Talking Deaconesses with According to John

Another enjoyable discussion about the push for deaconesses in the Orthodox Church, this time with Fr. Lawrence Farley in British Columbia, Fr. Patrick Ramsey in the UK, and Ioannis Nusias of According to John.

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Talking Deaconesses with Fr. Peter Heers

Six years since Fr. Peter Heers and I collaborated in drafting the 2018 Public Statement on Orthodox Deaconesses signed by over 50 other clerics and scholars, we meet again online to talk over the current push for deaconesses, in advance … Continue reading

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Speaking of deaconesses, here I am on Ancient Faith—and more

Just a note to let you know about my podcast interview on Ancient Faith posted earlier this week and to remind you of the other helpful posts on deaconesses and on the much bigger issue of male and female, so … Continue reading

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Male and Female as Archic and Eucharistic Modes of Relation

Is not personalism merely a form of individualism—more humane (perhaps) than old-fashioned, rights- based individualism, but not humane enough to keep from reducing the human person to an inhuman abstraction stripped of the concrete particulars that define every human life, … Continue reading

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My latest book, just released: The Disappearing Deaconess

“The whole Church has never had a tradition of having deaconesses, but the whole Church has had a tradition of not having them.” — The Disappearing Deaconess examines not just the history of deaconesses but also patristic teaching on male … Continue reading

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