by Fr. Ioannes Apiarius –
The Orthodox Church is being attacked by false teachers and deceitful venues that question, challenge, mock, deconstruct, contradict, and distort Church teaching, practices, and theology.
With help from the Orthodox editors, I have compiled a list of articles, essays, and petitions written by Orthodox Christian priests, deacons, professors, and writers warning the Church about false teachers and deceitful venues (especially Public Orthodoxy, The Wheel Journal, Orthodoxy in Dialogue, Fordham University’s Orthodox Center, Lazar Puhalo, Sister Vassa) that question, challenge, mock, deconstruct, contradict, and distort Church teaching, practices, and theology.
These links summarize the extensive true and public witness of approximately ninety six (96) Orthodox Christians (many priests and bishops) all of whom are in good standing with the Orthodox Church (spanning multiple jurisdictions). They represent Orthodox metropolitans, archbishops, bishops, priests, archpriests, hieromonks, seminary professors, and two deans of Orthodox Christian Seminaries. These preachers and teachers speak and write from within the Moral Tradition of the Orthodox Church. They speak with the authority of the Church, the Apostles, Fathers, Theologians, and Saints. Their words align with Scriptures and exemplify the true and universal teaching, theology, and practices of the Holy Orthodox Church across two millennia.
The same cannot be said of those fomenting rebellion inside the Orthodox Church.
The ranks of the false teachers include academics who openly promote the homosexualist agenda and oppose the Orthodox Church sacred Tradition. Some of these individuals openly and proudly self-identify as “homosexual” or “LGBT.” Many are not Orthodox Christians. Some are women “married” to other women. Others are men “married” to other men. Some were deposed by the Orthodox Church, openly declare and celebrate their “gayness,” and publicly promote the LGBT ideology. Others abandoned the Orthodox Church to become priestesses in other churches. All want to radically change the Orthodox Church teaching and Tradition to accommodate distorted and corrupt ideas.
List is provided in reverse chronological order, beginning in 2012, the earliest article we could find.
The Orthodox editors on this blog will continue to add more articles and links as they become available to warn the Church and the faithful about the false teachers who pridefully consider themselves “wiser and smarter” than the Apostles, Fathers, Theologians, and Saints of the Orthodox Church.
2024
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Abp Elpidophoros Compares Greek Bishops Against Gay Marriage Law to Fascists
10/1/2024 – Orthodox Christianity
“Men Without Chests”: The Metaphor for Our Times
9/24/2024 – Orthodox Reflections
Archbishop Elpidophoros’ Misplaced Priorities [Support of Ukrainian Schismatics, LGBT, and Women Deaconesses]
9/6/2024 – Orthodox Reflections
The Slippery Slope and the Eclipse of the Gospel – Women Priests and Bishops
8/26/2024 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Deaconesses, Female Deacons, and the Agenda of the St. Phoebe Center
3/8/2024 – Fr. John Whiteford
Doubling Down on Stupid – Phanar and John Chryssavgis Support LGBT Agendas
2/28/2024 – George Michalopulos
Phanar theologian John Chryssavgis bashes Greek Church for rejecting same-sex marriage law
2/26/2024 – Yaroslav Nivkin
“Arms open to gays”: Is Phanar following Rome in legalizing LGBT issue?
1/17/2024 – Konstantin Shemliuk
2023
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Lazar Puhalo: Morality and Virtue are Evolutionary Constructs
11/15/2023 – OrthodoxNetwork Blog
The Orthodox Church vs The Democrat Party: You Cannot Vote Democrat & Be An Orthodox Christian
11/8/2023 – Subdeacon Nektarios
Giacomo Sanfilippo: Ukraine Should Take Out the Russian Patriarch
8/13/2023 – Jennifer Davis
Melissa Walker Braun Proudly Supports Homosexuality, Bisexuality, Transgenderism, and Gay Marriage
6/6/2023 – Jennifer Davis
Homosexuality is Sinful and Contrary to Nature, Evidence of Man’s Rebellion Against God and Nature
5/15/2023 – Fr. Thomas Hopko
Transgenderism, Transhumanism, and the Top-down Revolution to Transform Humanity
5/11/2023 – Nicholas (Orthodox Reflections)
Nicholas Denysenko: Official Church Teaching on Homosexuality Doesn’t Represent a Consensus
5/2/2023 – OrthodoxNetwork
Fr. Christopher Calin Hides His Cross for Photo Op at Interfaith Celebration
3/24/2023 – OrthodoxNetwork
The Moral Heresy of Sexual Immorality
3/12/2023 – Fr. Zechariah Lynch
Who is Really Marginalized, LGBTQ+ or Christians?
2/2/2023 – Nicholas (Orthodox Reflections)
2022
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The Ecumenist “Orthodox” (The Birth of a New Religion, Part 4)
12/5/2022 – Fr. John Whiteford
Phanar-Vatican promotion of LGBT ideology: What can Orthodoxy expect?
10/21/2022 – Kirill Aleksandrov
Rogues’ Gallery of Academics, Bishops, and Big Money Foundations Working to Subvert the Orthodox Christian Faith
10/5/2022 – Orthodox Reflections
Woke Academics Promoting Homosexuality and Subverting Orthodox Christianity in US – Part 2
9/28/2022 – Global Orthodox
Woke Academics Promoting Homosexuality and Subverting Orthodox Christianity in US – Part 1
9/28/2022 – Global Orthodox
The Renovationist “Orthodox” (The Birth of a New Religion, Part 3)
9/16/2022 – Fr. John Whiteford
Lazar Puhalo is Not a Canonical Orthodox Bishop, He’s a Deposed Deacon
8/10/2022 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
George Demacopoulos: Christian Moral Teaching isn’t Black and White
8/6/2022 – Fr. John Whiteford
Scandalous Activists Attack OCA Synod For Rejecting Same-Sex Unions and LGBTQ Identities
8/1/2022 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
Phanar theologian John Chryssavgis on “LGBT baptism”: Time to talk of sex & gender in Church
8/27/2022 – UOJ (Union of Orthodox Journalists)
OCA Synod Categorically Rejects Same-Sex Unions and Homosexual Self-Identity
7/21/2022 – OCA Synod
Met. Seraphim of Piraeus Denounces Heretical Conduct of Elpidophoros on Baptism for Gay Couple
7/13/2022 – Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus
Met. Antonios of Glyfada was Deceived by Elpidophoros on Baptism for Gay Couple
7/12/2022 – Metropolitan Antonios of Glyfada
Abp. Elpidophoros praised for serving “first openly gay baptism”
7/11/2022 – Orthodox Christianity
Elpidophoros Baptizes Surrogate Children of “Married” Homosexuals
7/10/2022 – Nick Stamatakis
How Big Foundation Money Is Subverting Traditional Christianity
7/2/2022 – Rachel Wilson
Review: “Between Heaven and Russia,” by Sarah Riccardi-Swartz
6/25/2022 – Fr. John Whiteford
Sin is Nothing to Be Proud Of
6/20/2022 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
Orthodox Episcopal Aloofness with a Side of Cake [Abp. Elpidophoros Radical Leftist Views]
5/27/2022 – Orthodox Reflections
Three Criteria by Which to Recognize Modern False Prophets
5/19/2022 – Fr. Geoffrey Korz
Christians Must Have Courage in the Face of Deceitful Compromise
5/17/2022 – Fr. Zechariah Lynch
The Pro LGBTQP “Orthodox” (The Birth of a New Religion, Part 2)
5/14/2022 – Fr. John Whiteford
Rise of Heretical Pro-Abortion “Orthodox” False Teachers
5/9/2022 – Fr. John Whiteford
TWhat is the “Russian World Heresy” [Refuting Fordham University’s Defamatory Smear of Russian Church
5/7/2022 – Kaleb of Atlanta
The Pro-Abortion “Orthodox” (The Birth of a New Religion, Part 1)
5/5/2022 – Fr. John Whiteford
Academics Incorporating Leftist Dogma into Orthodox Christianity
2/16/2022 – Orthodox Reflections
Morality Not Black and White, Fordham’s George Demacopooulos Says in Abortion Article
2/7/2022 – Orthodox Christianity
What Happens When “Scholars” Fail to Address Arguments and Evidence Presented to Them [Refuting Public Orthodoxy Defamatory Attacks]
2/5/2022 – Fr. John Whiteford
The Problem With ‘Fundamentalists’ [Refuting Fr John Jillions]
2/1/2022 – Rod Dreher
Double-faced AB Elpidophoros Delivers Pro-Abortion Message at March for Life
1/22/2022 – Jackie Morfesis
2021
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The Wicked Heretic Lazar Puhalo
12/29/2021 – TruthBeTold7
Orthodox America Has a Cultural Marxist Problem [Refuting Aram Sarkisian’s Defamatory PO Article]
12/11/2021 – Fr. John Whiteford
Is the Patriarchate of Constantinople an Enemy of the American People?
11/5/2021 – Orthodox Reflections
Homosexual Unions or Intercourse Can Never Be Redeemed or Blessed by God
8/3/2021 – Fr. Thomas Hopko
Shepherd, Know Your Sheep – Open Letter to Archbishop Sotirios [False Teaching on Single Communion Spoon]
7/27/2021 – Orthodox Reflections
Compassionate Denial: A Paradigm of Abuse? [Exposing Inga Leonova’s False Arguments Supporting Homosexuality in the Church]
7/21/2021 – Teena Blackburn
Sin Cannot Be Blessed by the Church
7/10/2021 – Fr. Photius Avant
New gender ideologies are a demonic attack against union with God – Bulgarian Church
6/17/2021 – Orthodox Christianity
Mari Iakovou Mars Proudly and Publicly Celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month
6/16/2021 – Jennifer Davis
GOARCH, OCA hierarchs celebrate Patriarch Bartholomew’s name’s day at pro-LGBTQ Episcopal church
6/16/2021 – Orthodox Christianity
From New York To Istanbul With Love: From Green To Rainbow Patriarch
6/15/2021 – Nick Stamatakis (Helleniscope)
Bulgarian hierarch takes stand for Christian morality against gay pride parade
4/26/2021 – Metropolitan Joanikii of Sliven
Lazar Puhalo: “Ten Commandments Not Terribly Significant or Unique”
3/27/2021 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
A “Christian” cosplay coup d’état [Exposing Lydia Bringerud’s Attacks on Orthodox Traditions]
2/22/2021 – Dissident Mama
Petition for Bishops to Denounce Blasphemous “Orthodoxy in Dialogue” Website
2/19/2021 – Michael Sisco
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz and Russophobia
2/19/2021 – Fr. John Whiteford
Orthodox Priests Joining the Fight Will Change Everything
2/3/2021 – Orthodox Reflections
“That Horrible Bishop Makes Me Do It”
2/1/2021 – Monomakhos Blog
Where’s the clerical consistency? – part 1 [Fr. Christopher Calin’s Radical Leftist and Pro LGBT Posts]
1/28/2021 – Dissident Mama
2020
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Fr. Christopher Calin Endorses Pro-Abortion, Pro-LGBTQ, Anti-Christian Biden-Harris Candidacy
8/22/2020 – Jennifer Davis
Orthodox MD Argues the Communion Spoon is Safe
6/17/2020 – Orthodox Reflections
Archbishop “Many Spoons” Elpidophoros – Heresy to the Nth Degree?
6/5/2020 – Monomakhos Blog
Impossible for Holy Communion to Carry Germs or Diseases
6/3/2020 – Archbishop Michael Konstantinides
Mixed Marriages [Not Excuse to Overthrow Eucharistic Praxis]
5/4/2020 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Inga Leonova: Criminal Stupidity for Bishops and Priests to Give Holy Communion and Spread the Virus
3/25/2020 – Orthodox Editors
Fr. Cyril Hovorun: Mistake to Believe Eucharist Cannot Transmit Virus
3/24/2020 – Orthodox Editors
Greek Archbishop of America [Elpidophoros] declares open Communion for non-Orthodox spouses
2/21/2020 – Orthodox Christianity
When People of God Fall, They Behave Worse Than Pagans
2/13/2020 – Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon
Giacomo Sanfilippo’s Unholy Vendetta Against Faithful Orthodox Priests and Teachers
2/7/2020 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
The Ten LGBTQ Commandments [satire]
1/21/2020 – Jennifer Davis
An Anonymous “Open Letter” against Fr. Josiah Trenham
1/16/2020 – Fr. John Whiteford
Stricken with Death
1/14/2020 – Fr. Zechariah Lynch
The Antiochians Don’t Disappoint (The Fr. Aaron Warwick Affair)
1/10/2020 – Fr. John Whiteford
When A Bishop Does Right
1/6/2020 – Rod Dreher
Orthodoxy, LGBT, & Spiritual Sedition [re: “Orthodoxy in Dialogue” scandalous LGBT rebellion]
1/3/2020 – Rod Dreher
2019
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Go to Sleep, Everything is Just Fine
12/21/2019 – Fr. Zechariah Lynch
Ukraine Schism: What is a Layman To Do?
11/23/2019 – Fr. John Whiteford
Trying to Make Silk Purses Out of Sows’ Ears (Response to “A Theology of the Erotic”) [refuting Aristotle Papanikolaou false teaching]
11/15/2019 – Fr. John Whiteford
Discernment or Scaffolding? [refuting Aristotle Papanikolaou false teaching]
11/8/2019 – Fr. John Whiteford
Contrary to Nature: A Response to “Would the True “Nature” Please Stand Up?” [refuting Public Orthodoxy false teaching]
11/1/2019 – Fr. John Whiteford
Ed Sullivan Canon – Response to “Meeting Michelle” Part 2 [refuting Public Orthodoxy LGBTQP+ agenda]
10/23/2019 – Fr. John Whiteford
Response to “Meeting Michelle” Part 1 [refuting Public Orthodoxy LGBTQP+ agenda]
10/18/2019 – Fr. John Whiteford
A Provocation by a Provocateur
10/12/2019 – Nun Cornelia (Rees)
Don’t Dialogue With Sin
10/9/2019 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
Heresies and Schisms Will Appear in the Churches, in the Last Days
10/7/2019 – St. Ambrose of Optina (1812-1891)
Blasphemy and Open Rebellion by Nik Jovcic-Sas the “Orthodox Provocateur”
10/5/2019 – Jennifer Davis
Request To All Orthodox Bishops In America To Take Action Against False Teachings
9/29/2019 – Petition started by Elizabeth Dunbar
Fordham Scandalizes with “Mixed-Media Orthodox” Exhibition [Aristotle Papanikolaou and George Demacopoulos Promote Blasphemous Art]
9/17/2019 – Orthodox Christianity
Transgender Ideology is Anti-Christian, Anti-Science, & Marxist
9/15/2019 – Fr. Zechariah Lynch
Moral Heresy? [refuting Aristotle Papanikolaou’s false claims]
8/30/2019 – Fr. John Whiteford
Clergy, Scholars, LGBT Activists, Drag Show Host Gather to Discuss Opinions on Orthodoxy, Sex, Gender, Sexuality
8/23/2019 – OrthodoxChristian.com
What Modern Churches Are Missing [on Sister Vassa’s confusion of St. Paul’s teaching]
8/6/2019 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
Trust Faithful Orthodox Elders, Avoid Modernist Liberal Academics
7/18/2019 – Fr. Michael Wood (Hieromonk)
“Two Men in Bed Together”: a Failure of Exegesis [Sanfilippo’s homosexualist obsession]
7/12/2019 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
On Ecclesiology, Humility, and Love
7/8/2019 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
The Sin of Divorce
7/4/2019 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Resolution to Petition the Holy Synod to Correct Errant Clergy and Lay Persons on Issues of Same-Sex Erotic Relationships
7/2/2019 – Multiple Senior OCA Priests (six priests and one bishop, authored July 2018)
Protodeacon Feldman’s Old Testament
6/25/2018 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Theodore Feldman: Scriptures, Orthodox Church, and Holy Tradition are Wrong on Homosexuality and LGBTQ Issues
6/25/2019 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
Protodeacon Theodore Feldman boldly spouts nonsense
6/24/2019 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
Not Gay or Homosexual, but Men and Women Created in the Image and Likeness of God
6/2/2019 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
More on the Question of the Toll Houses
5/22/2019 – Fr. John Whiteford
David Bentley Hart and the Toll Houses
5/8/2019 – Fr. John Whiteford
Modern Judas Supports False Brethren in Ukraine
2/23/2019 – Fr. Zechariah Lynch
The Wheel asks “What Dialogue Means”
2/12/2019 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
Demonic Autonomy and Divine Obedience The Anthropology of Antichristianity (Part 8)
1/23/2019 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
Silence [“progressive” death march desires to silence all opposition]
1/18/2019 – Fr. Zechariah Lynch
The Moral Heresy of Sexual Immorality
1/13/2019 – Fr. Zechariah Lynch
An Orthodox Appraisal of Political Correctness, Sexual Anarchy, Cultural Deconstruction and Conforming the Church to the World
1/10/2019 – William E. Porter, Jr., M.Div.
2018
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Why God is “He”, Not “She”
11/27/2018 – Fr. Johannes Jacobse
The Age of Morality The Anthropology of Antichristianity (Part 7)
11/6/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
Dishonest Dialogue of Orthodox Liberals and Deconstructionists
10/13/2018 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Public Orthodoxy, Orthodoxy in Dialogue, The Wheel = Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
10/9/2018 – Fr. John Parker
Of Tolerance and Tyranny
11/6/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
Lazar Puhalo Attacks Monasticism
8/24/2018 – Pillar and Ground of the Truth
On Allegations of Orthodox Fundamentalism (Part 3) – Tradition, Fundamentalism, and Modernity
7/222018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
On Allegations of Orthodox Fundamentalism (Part 2) – The Church and Modernity
7/20/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
On Allegations of Orthodox Fundamentalism (Part 1) – On the Holy Fathers and Holy Tradition
7/16/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
The Pursuit of Happiness
7/12/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
Morality and Truth in a Secular Age
7/11/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
Unitarian Morality With a Little “Theosis” Sprinkled on Top
7/5/2018 – Fr. John Whiteford
Response to Giacomo Sanfilippo
7/1/2018 – Fr. John Whiteford
The Living Church 2.0
6/28/2018 – Fr. John Whiteford
Headscarves, Modesty, and Scolding Modern Orthodox Women
6/25/2018 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Truth, Compassion, and the Transgender Movement
6/25/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
Against Modern Legalism
6/25/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
The Unbearable Essentializing of Being: Metropolitan Kallistos Ware’s Sorrowful Joy of Sex
6/18/2018 – Reader Dr. Alfred Kentigern Siewers
Met. Kallistos Clearly Implies that the Church Should Bless Committed Same-Sex Relationships
6/16/2018 – Fr. Juvenaly Repass
Anatomy of a Foreword: Metr. Kallistos on Sexual Morality
6/16/2018 – Fr. John Cox
Policing Orthodoxy’s Borders
6/16/2018 – Rod Dreher
The Rise of Antichristianity The Mystery of Lawlessness
6/13/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
The Church and Homosexuality: A Meditation
6/13/2018 – Fr. Herman Majkrzak (Hieromonk)
Metropolitan Kallistos and The Wheel
6/13/2018 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Met. Kallistos Ware on the Ordination of Women and Blessing of Same-Sex Marriages
6/12/2018 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
Met. Kallistos Ware Comes Out for Homosexual “Marriage”
6/12/2018 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
On Priestesses and Ecclesiological Deism [on Sr. Vassa dangerous nonsense]
5/21/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
Dr. David Ford: An Open Letter to an Advocate of So-Called “Gay Marriage”
5/20/2018 – Dr. David C. Ford
The New Christianity
5/14/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
Dishonest Dialogue
5/9/2018 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Public Schools and Antichristianity
5/3/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
Sister Vassa on the Ordination of Women to the Priesthood
4/28/2018 – Fr. John Whiteford
Sr. Vassa: There’s no ontological impediment to priestesses
4/24/2018 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
The Defence of the New Deaconesses and the Rest of the Story
4/20/2018 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Progressives Use the Terms “Dialogue” and “Fundamentalism” to Attack and Subvert Orthodox Tradition
4/13/2018 – Fr. Johannes Jacobse
‘Fundamentalism’ & ‘Dialogue’
4/13/2018 – Rod Dreher
Fighting the Wrong Battles
2/14/2018 – Fr. Gabriel (Hieromonk)
The Continuing Validity of the Moral Law of the Old Testament [Rebuke of Lazar Puhalo Heretical Views]
2/12/2018 – Fr. John Whiteford
What Do Our Friends at Fordham Have to Say About This?
1/24/2018 – George Michalopulos
Fordham University’s Orthodox Center receives grant to study LGBTQ rights
1/23/2018 – OrthodoxChristian.com
2017
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The Hart Idiosyncratic Version
12/29/2017 – Fr. John Whiteford
More anti-fundamentalism pap from OCL
11/21/2017 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
Ashley Purpura: Orthodox Church Needs Women Priests and Bishops
11/13/2017 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
Public Orthodoxy: Promoting Cultural Marxism and LGBT Blasphemy
11/11/2017 – Fr. John Whiteford
Cultural Marxism and Public Orthodoxy
11/11/2017 – Fr. John Whiteford
Fr. Robert Arida: Why Don’t You Become Episcopalian?
11/5/2017 – Fr. Johannes Jacobse
A Response to “A Response”: Sanfilippo’s Latest Broadside
11/1/2017 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
The Deep Melancholy of David Bentley Hart
10/3/2017 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
St. Vladimir’s Seminary Reacts to Amsterdam Conference, OCA Bishops Remain Silent
8/30/2017 – Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse
The Abnormal Cannot Dictate What’s Normal
8/29/2017 – Fr. Ioannes Apiarius
Fr. Thomas Hopko: Homosexual Advocates Should be Denied Communion in the Orthodox Church
8/21/2017 – Fr. Thomas Hopko
Gay Iconoclasm: Holding the Line Against the Radical LGBT Agenda
7/25/2017 – by Fr. Josiah Trenham
ROCOR Synod of Bishops responds to Sr. Vassa’s letter
7/19/2017 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
Sr. Vassa not retracting, rejoices in increased attention and money
7/8/2017 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
Sister Vassa on Homosexuality
7/7/2017 – Fr. John Whiteford
Sr. Vassa’s words on gay teen dating continue to reverberate
7/7/2017 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
New, but not improved… A Response to Public Orthodoxy, on the Creed
6/28/2017 – Fr. John Whiteford
Missteps in the Church’s response to the LGBT movement [on Fr. John Chryssavgis pro-LGBT views
6/22/2017 – Byzantine, TX
The Amsterdam Symposium: An Abuse of Authority?
6/19/2017 – Fr. Johannes Jacobse
Uncovering the Truth: Head Coverings and Revisionist Biblical Interpretation
6/19/2017 – Fr. John Whiteford
A Letter From Russia on an Article Defending Same-Sex Marriage and Defaming Fr. Pavel Florensky
6/3/2017 – Russian Orthodox Academic
Soft-Pedaling Christian Morality: A Review of a Curious Review [on Fr. John Chryssavgis Pro-Homosexual views]
5/31/2017 – Fr. John Whiteford
Part Two: Of Homosexual Christians and their Struggle
5/8/2017 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Bourgeois “Conjugal Friendship” and American Ethnophyletism
5/5/2017 – Reader Dr. Alfred Kentigern Siewers
Sanfilippo’s “Conjugal Friendship”
5/3/2017 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Part One: Of Gay Sex and Leaven
5/1/2017 – Fr. Lawrence Farley
Fr. Michael Courey: Orthodox Church Must be More Inclusive, Welcome Same-Sex Couples
4/20/2017 – Orthodox Editors
Three Trojan Horses: Insider Attempts to Disorient the Orthodox
4/17/2017 – Fr. Alexander F.C. Webster
Fundamental Errors: A Response to “Tradition Without Fundamentalism” by George Demacopoulos
3/17/2017 – Fr. John Whiteford
Christian Pastors Must Stand for Truth, Righteousness, and Morality in the Public Arena
1/17/2017 – Fr. Josiah Trenham
2016
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Orthodoxy and LGBT “Inclusiveness”
12/7/2016 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
Culture Wars Threaten the Orthodox Church, Our Freedom, and Our Families
8/7/2016 – Fr. John Whiteford
2015
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Demacopoulos vs. the Russians… again
11/18/2015 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
Met. Joseph’s Directive On So-called “Same-Sex Marriage”
10/31/2015 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
“Orthodox Fundamentalism” Discussion on Ancient Faith Today
7/14/2015 – Fr. John Whiteford
Puhalo Strikes Again
6/7/2015 – George Michalopulos
The Strange Theology of David Bentley Hart [and Univeralism Heresy of Fr. Aidan Kimel
5/14/2015 – Fr. John Whiteford
Deeply Disturbing Concerns – Homosexual Militancy Threatening the Orthodox Church
3/27/2015 – Fr. John Guy Winfrey
Response to “Orthodox Fundamentalism” by George Demacopoulos
2/2/2015 – Fr. John Whiteford
2014
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You may not be interested in Culture Wars, but Culture Wars are interested in you
12/10/2014 – Fr. John Whiteford
Mattingly: Two clashing Orthodox takes on doctrine – past and future
11/14/2014 – Terry Mattingly
Texas Orthodox Priests Reject Fr. Arida’s Scandalous Teaching on Homosexuality
11/13/2014 – Twenty-Three (23) Texas Orthodox Priests
Fr. Robert Arida: Why Don’t You Become Episcopalian?
11/5/2014 – Fr. Johannes Jacobse
OCA Wonder blog: Change and the Church
11/5/2014 – Fr. Joseph Birthisel
Priest vs. Priest on Homosexual Orientation
4/10/2014 – Fr. Johannes Jacobse
2013
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Puhalo rants again… on Transgenderism and Intersexuality
12/11/2013 – George Michalopulos
Being Frank – Exposing Schaeffer’s Hatred of Russia’s Laws Against Public Displays of Homosexuality
10/7/2013 – Nun Cornelia (Rees), Fr. John Whiteford
2012
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Thomas Hopko on Same-Sex Attraction: Speaking the Truth in Love?
10/2/2012 – Dn. Brian Patrick Mitchell
Lazar Puhalo spouts blatant heresy… again
1/15/2012 – Fr. John Whiteford
The Very Most Retired “Archbishop” Lazar Puhalo rants again
1/5/2012 – Fr. John Whiteford
2011
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The Continuing Validity of the Moral Law of the Old Testament [Refutes Lazar Puhalo Heretical Views]
10/29/2011 – Fr. John Whiteford
We live in one of the freest times of religion in the West – a blessing which comes with great responsibility. In so many parts of the world, religion and state are so intertwined that ‘Christians’ are unable to exercise their consciences and avail themselves of the many choices within ‘Christendom’.
Before an arm-chair theologian (Orthodox sense of the word theologian) or a religious scholar (Orthodox sense of the word scholar) puts a dox-knife to my throat, my choice of words in quotation marks is for the inability to italicize them. In no manner am I publicly promoting the Branch Theory of Christianity, nor am I proposing that all Christian-named communities or Communions are Churches. Though I have a double-major doctorate (religion/theology and psychology) 1. I am not writing as an academic; 2. I am purposely writing theologoumena – precisely asking questions more than proposing answers; and pointing out things which hurt my head thinking about them; 3. I am writing as an Orthodox monk; and 4. I am writing as someone formally trained in Orthodox and Western psychology.
That said, it becomes perplexing to me that, for example, an atheist woman minister of the United Church of Canada (located in Toronto) would demand a canonical hearing in order to stay incorporated in the United Church and not move on to, let us say, the Unitarians, or better yet, the Humanist Society? Or why some one who advocates priestesses would not avail themselves of the Anglican-Episcopal Communion, or an Independent Catholic or Orthodox ‘Church’ instead of trying to force themselves upon the Roman Catholics or the Eastern Orthodox? And coming closer to home, why the theological ‘terrorism’ in our own home?
In my own situation, over time it became evident to me that while I may have used words that Romans used, when I did use them I often found myself not employing them in the same fashion; that what I understood as hesychasm and negative theology many refused to accept as valid contemplation; that I had a propensity to iconography over statues; and then when I came across an imprimatured book published in Rome that said that everything necessary for salvation could be found in the Orthodox Church, many things became a house of cards for me: purgatory, papal primacy, papal infallibility, the filioque etc. It then became obligatory to listed to the Holy Spirit poking my conscience and to knock on the door of Orthodoxy and continue to knock until Christ forced the door opened for myself and my Nun-mother.
I did not stay to impose myself upon the Romans. Nor for that matter have I written a triumphalistic book about how evil Romans are, particularly when I have found heresy in Orthodoxy – the difference being, that in Orthodoxy the heresy is tolerated not ‘infallibly declared,’ even while we have a very long and ugly history of persecuting the sainted-innocent (e.g. Sts. Theophan the Recluse, Nektarios of Aegina, the Aboriginals of Alaska, and almost every Fool-for-Christ the Orthodox Church has ever witnessed); and the current more dramatic ‘past times’ of killing priests or kneecapping monks or fomenting book-burnings. Monastic prisons predated and made a case for the Atheist Experiment and their infamous gulag. Martyrs (bloody or psychologically tormented) are supposed to be created by exterior enemies, not by one’s own household; even though Christ-God warns us about that very peculiarity… But with this said – why provacateurs and agitators simply don’t move along when we live in an age in which many have the ability to move on? I am of the opinion that it has a lot to do with what is called a/the messianic-complex.
Very few people are gifted by God as prophets; spirits must be discerned; and sadly to say, most prophets turn out to be false prophets. As Quoheleth says, “Nothing is new under the sun.” And the Apostle writes, “Jesus..the Same yesterday, today and forever.” They simply cannot see beyond their delusions and narcissism and their need not only to move the furniture around in the room, but to introduce new furniture, and to deny the removed furniture was ever removed.
A great book to immerse oneself in, when starting to believe oneself as having God’s cellphone number, and a ‘secret gnosis’ which needs to be shared with congregation/monastery/the public at large, is the book entitled, 50 Jewish Messiahs by Jerry Rabow (Gefen Publishing House, 2002). Simply put, it is about 50 competing self-proclaimed Messiahs in Judaism contemporary with Christ Our Lord, down through history and contemporary with ourselves, which have plagued Judaism alone. And the author does not claim definitiveness, but only a selection of the most notable.
Perhaps it is time to look into the psychology of why these people do what they do; and how we might more effectively protect ourselves. Provacateurs do one of two things: they persecute the innocent by false accusations of ‘heresy’; and they also promote real heresy and division. As to the first they blaspheme the Holy Spirit; as to the second they seek to quench Him.
Five years since your comment and nothing has changed as far as the validity of the content of your comment is concerned.
As for the attempt “… how we might more effectively protect ourselves.” one passage of scripture comes to mind.
16Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 17But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues; 18And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles. 19But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. 20For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. 22And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
23But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
24The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. 25It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? Matt 10, 16-25
There are only two TRUE TRIBES – THE TRIBE FOLLOWING THE LORD JESUS CHRIST and the tribe following the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN inaugurated by THE SERPENT and EVE and ADAM in THE GARDEN OF EDEN following the gospel of MATERIALISM – driven by the desires of THE FLESH under the disguise of “perfecting” GOD ALMIGHTY’S CREATION and “saving” humanity – and thereby not noticing their SERVITUDE to GOD ALMIGHTY in separating THE WHEAT from the chaff.
There is no worldly tribe one can be assured of not having been poisoned by the poisoned gospel of THE LIE. GOD ALMIGHTY looks into every HEART INDIVIDUALLY based on HIS WORD ALONE!
the last will be first and the first will be last –
THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE ONLY – THE ONE AND ONLY INCARNATION OF GOD ALMIGHTY AND SHEPHERD AND SAVIOUR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT FOREVER AND EVER – AMEN HALLELU-YAH – SOLI DEO GLORIA!
Thank you for this!
Thanks for naming these sites & people we should stay away from. I will make good use of your list by following them on their social media platforms. Also, I appreciate the attached articles. I’ll be sure to steer clear of the authors, their writings and any parish that has one of the contributors as a priest. Cheers.
A picture paints a thousand words…remember when we used to smash idols?
Dear Editors:
Please go to original post in Orthodox Observer for photos. ‘You will know them by their fruits…’
Doxa to Theo, John
Orthodox Bishop Praises Golden Idol of a Pagan Goddess (PHOTOS)
https://russian-faith.com/greek-american-bishop-feels-proud-about-golden-idol-of-athena
Athena is the ancient Greek goddess of war, considered to be the daughter of Zeus. According to Holy Scripture, “all the gods of the Gentiles are devils”. “Standing here, in front of the only full-scale replica of the Parthenon in the world, I feel an overwhelming sense of pride…complete with the magnificent effigy of Athena”, Archbishop Elpidophoros said in his letter…