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@OrthodoxHistory Chrismated in 2010.

How long have you been Orthodox?

@luinalaska There’s the DezNat guys but iirc church leadership called them out and clamped down hard on them.

Per Google in the US there are 7 million Mormons, 2 million orthodox Christians, and 50 million Catholics. Where are all the blatantly cruel Mormons online? This conundrum bothers me. We are known by our fruits. I’m serious when I ask this: Where are the troll Mormons?! I can throw a rock and hit 1,000 Catholic/Orthodox accounts that post non-stop cruelty. For reference I am Catholic. I woke up annoyed by this. Where are they?

@MasterDiff6 @N_Boyajian @RLouis1397 @financedystop Are there really that many remote workers living in potato towns? Most remote workers I know personally who made good money moved to slightly cheaper major metros or somewhere they already had family.

@chudderlaomer @N_Boyajian @RLouis1397 @financedystop Read the comments. Then tell me about the rest of the small ag communities where home pricing skyrocketed.

Some cities are not fond of Remote Workers

@MasterDiff6 @N_Boyajian @RLouis1397 @financedystop People were bitching about Californians and Seattleites retiring to the panhandle or buying second homes since the early oughts at least

@N_Boyajian @RLouis1397 @financedystop Idaho is an entire state. Boise is one city.

@shagbark_hick @ReturnOrthodoxy There’s been a split in the two Miaphysite Syriac churches in India since 1912 over administrative issues. There’s also a big administrative split in the Ethiopian Church going on right now. Their bishops get into political slapfights as much as ours do.

@ReturnOrthodoxy What matters most is that there are "no divisions among you," as 1 Cor 1 states. And the Oriental Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches seem to have the EO's beat six ways to Sunday on that front, unfortunately.

I find it strange that so many Eastern Orthodox I know seem to be totally unaware that the Patriarchate of Moscow is formally not in Communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Of all EO Christians, those under Moscow are roughly 50% of all Eastern Orthodox worldwide. Now, only 2-3% of all EO Christians are directly under the Patriarch of Constantinople (including, notably, the Greek Orthodox Church in the US, ACROD, and Mount Athos). But until 2018, the Constantinopolitan Patriarch was considered the "primus inter pare," or "first among equals" after the Great Schism of 1054. This is to say that the Patriarch who held the highest place of honor amongst all EO Patriarches -- and who held the position for nearly 1,000 years, from 1054 to 2018 -- is no longer in full Communion with roughly half of all Eastern Orthodox Christians on earth. It's also to say that roughly half of all EO Christians cannot receive communion at 19 out of 20 Monasteries at Mount Athos -- which is arguably the most spiritually significant place in Eastern Orthodoxy outside the holy land. To complicate matters further, the breakage in communion only goes one way. ROC-aligned Christians are instructed not to receive Communion at Constantinople-aligned Churches (such as GOARCH, ACROD, and most of Mount Athos) but faithful who come from Constantinople-aligned Churches CAN receive at ROC Churches... of course, enforcement varies wildly, and the old rule of "ask your Priest," (the EO answer for practically everything) seems to be the default... In all truth, it's an absolute mess, and it's a mess about which most EO laymen seem to be blissfully unaware. That's probably spiritually healthy for a layman. But when non-EO Christians ask questions like "which Orthodox Church?" or point to politicized factions, disorganized intercommunion, or a habit of splintering in the EO world -- no Eastern Orthodox Christian should be particularly surprised. And I find that cradle Eastern Orthodox generally are not surprised. It's only the converts who seem to be indignant that anyone outside the EO world would think these giant divisions and complicated breakages are at least a little strange.

Just found out that in the Middle Ages they invented coats of arms for God and Satan

@EasternMilk Chrismated in a GOARCH parish. Wasn’t charged a dime for anything, including the certificate.

If you or your children were baptized in the Orthodox Church, did it cost money? Please share around.

@escapefrommelos “Mr. Trump’s Scrap Iron”

>coinage >pence >peso coins >”“DOUBLOONS”“ get the fuck out of here there is no way this shit is real

@KalebAtlanta @banterwithb @satisfyjustice I’ll take the soup.

@satisfyjustice No, you're wrong. Orthotwitter is hell every day, it's just superhell today.

orthotwitter is hell today

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@owenbroadcast “Baby Bear Has Three Papas”

average library experience: hey, looking for a book about a bear for my daughter, she’s 2. “we have narcan”. uh no just need a book about a bear. “we have a book about depression”. anything with a bear. “stinky toilet monster?” any bear. “uhh well heres bears first depression”

@paisiosdavis His other brother Fr Robert Hart (Trad Anglican) has a bit of a chip on his shoulder when it comes to EOs and I blame David.

Many of you know this already but Addison is a brilliant writer as well. Erudite like DBH but kinder and not so long-winded (and, of course, solidly Orthodox). His Substack: addisonhodgeshart.substack.com

David Bentley Hart's brother.

@OrthodoxPole81 @ViewFromAS46610 In my experience, most Orthodox laymen with a Jewish background make excellent converts, too. They’re very serious about praxis, and tend to be especially thoughtful when it comes to theological study.

@ViewFromAS46610 I understand why you would say that but the history of Jews converting to Orthodox Christianity says the exact opposite. One of the best Orthodox priests in my lifetime was Father James Bernstein who was the co-founder of Jews for Jesus and later became an Orthodox priest.

Fascinating. spzh.eu/en/news/92995-…

@DouglasKaliher @keeper_orchard My neck of the woods! FDR’s Little White House was in Warm Springs. Among the multiple houses he owned, it was his favorite. The Carrollton/Bremen area is a Sacred Harp singing hotspot West Point Lake is great for bass fishing Not as breathtaking as NorGA but still

@keeper_orchard The part of Georgia that I have outlined, I know very little about. Even though my mother's grandfather is from Thomaston and my dad's uncle lived in Dalton 40 years. I've never even been to Rome. I've only been through this area. And I've lived in Georgia since birth, 53 years.

Been driving the backroads of Georgia the last 2 days-I’ve seen pretty much every corner of this state through the yrs & to me, the still rural, lower Piedmont away from the interstates is the loveliest part of GA. Here’s the prettiest church in GA-Zion Episcopal near Talbotton.

@SketchesbyBoze TIL I’ve been using capricious wrong all my life (I thought it meant greedy)

How many of these standard SAT vocabulary words do you know? Abnegation Anathema Antediluvian Apocryphal Bourgeois Capricious Circumlocution Deleterious Effulgent Impecunious Legerdemain Malediction Ostensible Pellucid Pulchritude Surreptitious Timorous Vociferous Zephyr

An illustration of ‹ The poet Homer › (ʾŪmīrūš al-šāʿir) from a 13th cent. Arabic MS, likely drawn in Mosul.

@VozdAugustus @KalebAtlanta Lots of Orthos in Ohio. You can do a lot worse.

@KalebAtlanta Unfortunately, he was also a freemason and an Oh*oan

Archbishop Panteleimon of Neapolis made President Warren G. Harding a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher and gave him a piece of the True Cross of Jesus Christ.

@SaintTikhons I pray every diocese tries something like this.

Christ is Risen! Saint Tikhon’s Seminary and the Diocese of the Midwest of the Orthodox Church in America are humbled and excited to announce a bold and creative partnership intended to form and train a select cohort of qualified men for the Priesthood in the Chicagoland area over the next three years. Read full press release here 👉 bit.ly/ExtendedLearni… #sttikhonsseminary #stots

@frozenaesthetic @wylfcen I completely believe it. Arabs love ball breaking.

White boy shocks Egyptian by telling him to fuck off in perfect Arabic

@real_hotaru @hradzka Isn’t a chunky soup just a stew?