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Re: Robertson's outburst

WEA and ol' Pat

It will take a lot more than retracting a certain statement for ol' Pat to "reconcile his views with the orthodox Christian faith."

ps. I don't care that there's no big "o" in that quote.

The Russians know how to do it

This is how tv should be run:

Spas managing editor Ivan Demidov explains that "if for example there was an ad for milk and another ad for crisps, and one was filmed on a beach, while the other was filmed in a village, we would prefer to take the latter. I don't think we could permit ourselves to show a beach on our channel".

Spas TV

Boy, some kind of hispanic knows how to cut melons...it's beautiful

The politically correct version of "Beware of Dogs"

Franklinstein Graham?

Raising the body

There's obviously someone out there who still likes Lionel...

Those durn agnostics...

Da Vinci dereliction

"She, like most traditionalists, said the storyline was based on agnostic heresy."

In other news...

Whoa Nel(s)l(s)y

Last week money grubbing tv producers explaced placed a life size model of Nessy in Lake Loch Ness to try to trick people into thinking that Nessie isn't real.

We all know better than to take the bait.

All that's lacking is money...

Spare change for Ecumenism?

The relationship between the Armenian Orthodox Church and the Canadian Anglicans has been strengthened to become recognised more through the Scholarship of St. Basil the Great, which is administered by the Anglican Foundation. The scholarship was established by retired bishop of Diocese of Ontario, Bishop Henry Gordon Hill, with means to facilitate exchange between members of the Anglican Church of Canada and members of the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East.

Those are some pretty powerful words there junior

De-gendrifying Lutherans

Instructions begins with the proper use of speech, and syllables and words are the elements of speech. Therefore to scrutinize syllables is not a superflous task.

...what theological term is so insignificant that it will not greatly upset the balance of the scales, unless it is used correctly?

Those who are idle in the pursuit of righteousness count theological terminology as secondary... those conscious of the goal of our calling realize that we are to become like God...

St. Basil the Great

With the spirits of the righteous give rest, O Savior, to the souls of Thy departed servants and keep them in the blessed life with Thee, O Lover of man. In the place of Thy rest, O Lord, where all Thy Saints repose give rest also to the souls of Thy servants for Thou alone art the Lover of men.

Concerning Greeks and Latins

We begin with the fact that there are no "Latin" or "Greek" Fathers of the Church. All Fathers of the Church within the Roman Empire are Greek-speaking and Latin-speaking Roman Fathers of the Church with their localities attached to their description. The Carolingian Franks literally invented the distinction between "Greek" and "Latin" Fathers of the Church. Why? In order to cover up the fact that they had no Father of their Church until Rabanus Maurus (776-856). So they simply broke the Roman Fathers in two and began calling them "Greek" and "Latin" Fathers of the Church. In this way they simply attached Rabanus Maurus and his successors to their so-called "Latin" Fathers of the Church. But the Fathers of the Church who wrote in either Latin or Greek or in both Latin and Greek, were neither Latins nor Greeks, but were simply Roman Fathers of the Church.

Fr. John Romanides

The Eighth Council

Without ever mentioning the Franks, the Eighth Ecumenical Synod of 879 condemned those who either added or subtracted from the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, and also those who had not yet accepted the Seventh Ecumenical Synod. It must first be emphasized that this is the first instance in history wherein and Ecumenical Synod condemned heretics without naming them. In this case, the heretics are clearly the Franks.

Fr. John Romanides

Add another council to the list

Nicea 3?

...politics [might I add church governance?] that rejects Christian Truth must acknowledge "the people" as sovereign and understand authority as proceeding from below upwards, in a formally "egalitarian" society [church].

Fr. Seraphim (Rose)