[Destro]

Obeng, who is biracial, said she feels comfortable with Orthodoxy, which has deep roots in Africa.

Metropolitan Lwanga Eyes Orthodox African Seat (The First Black Pope?)

ORTHODOX MISSION IN TROPICAL AFRICA (Evangelizing Africa to Orthodoxy the old fashioned way)

[Destro]

Peck, whose first parish was in Fairbanks, Alaska, conducts the liturgy in English. “I don’t know Latin. Apart from (Eskimo), English is the only language I know,” he said with a smile.

Religious revival: Alaska sees renewal of faith in Russian Orthodox church "we are now the largest church in Alaska"

[gbcdoj]

Peck said Christians are growing tired of churches that constantly change their doctrine or are splitting as a result of bitter divisions.

In contrast, Peck said, the essence of Orthodoxy has remained unchanged since it was born in the first century.

Artificial methods of birth control are forbidden in the Orthodox Church. (Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Church, 1963, p. 302)

Concerning contraceptives and other forms of birth control, differing opinions exist within the Orthodox Church. In the past birth control was in general strongly condemned, but today a less strict view is coming to prevail, not only in the west but in traditional Orthodox countries. Many Orthodox theologians and spiritual fathers consider that the responsible use of contraception within marriage is not in itself sinful. In their view, the question of how many children a couple should have, and at what intervals, is best decided by the partners themselves, according to the guidance of their own consciences. (Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Church, 1993, p. 302)

The Orthodox don't constantly change their doctrine. Right.

The Christian Church was a single entity until 1054, when it split into two parts, Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy.

What about the non-Chalcedonian Orthodox or the Assyrian Church of the East?

Our newest liturgy is 1,300 years old.

The Divine Liturgy of St. Tikhon, based on the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, is certainly not 1,300 years old.

[Kolokotronis]

"“To the Orthodox, Catholicism is the Protestant Church,” he said. “It’s Orthodox-lite. I don’t mean that in a bad way. The framework of Catholic services is Orthodox. The Roman Church doesn’t do anything the way they did 100 years ago, let alone 500 or 1,000 years ago.”

What a ridiculous, ignorant remark. Is this what the OCA is ordaining these days? A man who doesn't understand Greek, or Slavonic or Arabic; a man who carries his protestant baggage along with him into Orthodoxy so he can publicly, and undoubtedly privately, spread that "Catholicism is Protestantism" tripe among the Laos tou Theou; a man 5 years since baptism and/or chrismation and they make him a priest?

To the Roman Catholic readers of this thread, my family has been Orthodox at least 1700 years. I think I understand the Orthodox Faith and phronema. This "priest" is a disgrace. I am ashamed that he is identified with our ancient and Holy Church. To my Orthodox brethren, see what happens when in haste to ordain some overly pious newbie convert we end up not with a good Orthodox priest, but some American Protestant swinging the theemeato and pretending its 19th century Russia!

[Antoninus]

AN ENDURING FAITH. The Very Rev. John Peck, pastor at Holy Assumption Orthodox Church in Canton, ministers to many converts of Orthodox Christianity like himself. Peck said Orthodoxy attracts people who are tired of congregational splits and denominational infighting.

Yeah. Lord knows there has never been any of that within the Orthodox Churches...