Sin and control

On Orthodoxy and eating disorders

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Sin and control

On Orthodoxy and eating disorders

While I rejoice in the way shared meals can unite believers, as an Orthodox Christian in recovery from bulimia, I also find the Orthodox stress on food challenging. Eating disorders are rarely discussed within Orthodox parishes.

Eating Crawfish Like An Orthodox

Rod Dreher

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Eating Crawfish Like An Orthodox

Rod Dreher

Shawnee and I were in a shop in town this weekend when someone asked her what the documentary was going to be about. One thing she said stuck with me: “The culture of death is everywhere. I’m wanting to show people, especially young people, that there’s another way. That there’s hope.”

Reveal Your Saints and You Reveal Your Church

Gabe Martini

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Reveal Your Saints and You Reveal Your Church

Gabe Martini

For many, this event is little more than a well-leveraged commemoration of an extended olive branch between these two ancient, Christian faiths. For others, concern over the future of their respective churches takes center stage. Will this event be used as an impetus for doctrinal compromise? Will the future of either Eastern Orthodoxy or Roman catholicism hang in the balance as a result of this pending exchange of pleasantries?

Hysteria

Dr.Dmitry Avdeev, M.D.,Ph.D

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Hysteria

Dr.Dmitry Avdeev, M.D.,Ph.D

The spiritual evaluation of this psychopathological state could be portrayed as showing off. Hysterical individuals are easily noted for their emotional imbalance, which is expressed by stormy and bright changes of mood. The speech of these people is full of images, characterized by frequent exaggeration of the facts.

Homosexual activist says gay ‘marriage’ isn’t about equality, it’s about destroying marriage

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Homosexual activist says gay ‘marriage’ isn’t about equality, it’s about destroying marriage

Conservative pundits are saying that a homosexual activist exposed the hidden agenda behind homosexual “marriage” when she told an audience last year that the movement is not seeking equality but rather a total dismantling of the institution of marriage itself.