Orthodixie

Due to my secular job, third shift, I’m used to fashioning blog posts in the middle of the night. Never in the light of day. Yet thanks to the modern day struggle known as a computer virus, or something equally evil, my laptop is ailing … on life support. Hanging on by a thread. Full lobotomy pending.

I think it’s a conspiracy.

Consider the two posts that I was working on, both foolishly stored in my AOL Mail-to-be-Sent:

1) On the DaVinci Code

2) Sacraments for Space Aliens

See what I mean? Y’all know I’ve blogged freely for over six months. But now that I get to the real issues, the issues that hound us everyday — space aliens and Gnostic novels — well, you see how it is.

Forgive me but for safety reasons I shall write this next sentence in code:

H E L P M E

Then again, perhaps the drive to work at around midnight has limited my Radio surfing options.

More later …

Courage.

Read it. H E R E.

Or

H E R E.

CONTAMINANT.
Dead horse. Beating. Translation: the TNIV.

CONSTANTINE.
Traditional Christianity with dualistic tomfoolery.

If Constantine were a scratch-and-sniff film, the theater would be overrun with the foul odor of burning sulfur and cigarette smoke.

Who says Hollywood stars are not interested in evangelism?

CONCILIAR.
A new B L O G. Pay a visit, participate.

1988 …

1) that sexual intercourse is an act of total commitment which belongs properly within a permanent marriage relationship;

2) that fornication and adultery are sins against this idea, and are to be met by a call to repentance and the exercise of compassion;

3) that homosexual acts also fall short of this idea, and are likewise to be met by a call to repentance and exercise of compassion;

4) that all Christians are called to be exemplary in all spheres of morality, including sexual morality, and that holiness of life is particularly required for Christian leaders.

— The Episcopal Church, 1988.

Melton, J. Gordon, The Churches Speak on: Homosexuality, pp. 102-103.

Three years later, 1991, the Episcopal Church …

We do not agree, in particular, concerning two issues fundamental to the Church’s position on ethical questions before us:

1) whether homosexual orientation is an equally valid, God-given alternative to heterosexual orientation

2) whether committed, monogamous, heterosexual marriage is the only morally acceptable context for sexual intimacy

We agreed that homosexual orientation is not morally culpable or inconsistent with being a committed Christian. Such a position is consistent with a biblical witness, which, as mentioned earlier, does not speak in terms of orientation. It is also consistent with the evidence we have received from the social sciences that such an orientation is not, in the vast majority of cases, a matter of choice.

The Blue Book (1991): Reports of the Committees, Commission, Boards, and Agencies of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church.

2003, 12 years later, the Episcopal Church …

consecrated a practicing homosexual as Bishop.

What the future holds, God only knows.

My laptop, from which I work on this blog, has … died. Glory to God, I’m glad others are still sending me things! The following is from Fr Josiah Trenham.

In the light of statements that are so regularly being published through the various “Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultations” both nationally and internationally that seek to downplay the dogmatic differences between Orthodoxy and Catholicism here is an informative quote on the filioque heresy from the pen of St. Photios, the Pillar of Orthodoxy:

It has come to our ears that some of those who live in the West, either because they have not been fully satisfied with the Lord’s utterance, or because they have no understanding of the definitions and dogmas of both the Fathers and synods, or because they overlook the precisions therefrom, or because they have minds that are insensible to such matters, not knowing how else one would state it; nevertheless, surreptitiously introduce the teaching (would that they had not) that the Divine and all-Holy Spirit proceeds not only from God, that is, the Father, but also from the Son, and through such an utterance produce extensive harm to those who believe it.

— St. Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople and Pillar of Orthodoxy — Letter to the Metropolitan Of Aquileia, 9th century.