Eastern Orthodox Christianity 2.0

Christ is Risen!  Indeed He is Risen!
Yes, on the Third Monday of Pascha yesterday morning - May 12 (NS)! - some snow stuck to the ground in higher elevations of southwestern Pennsylvania (link may break), the Commonwealth where I and alot of other Orthodox live!
This discussion goes back to my recent post occasioned by the (Western) Good [...]

This discussion is from someone who usually seems to know what he’s talking about, a Ukrainian Canadian who seems to interact with both Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism.

NEOPHYTE OPINION ALERT
Numerous Orthodox hymns and prayers include the past tenses of the verb to shine, referring in one way or another to light, often God’s Uncreated Energies as Light, as frequently discussed in this blog, whether directly from a Person of the Trinity, or indirectly through a Saint, Angel, or the Theotokos (God-Deliverer).
Allow me [...]

The impending arrival of St. Raphael (Hawaweeny) of Brooklyn (1860-1915) as a priest-monk to serve Arab Orthodox in North America was announced on page 16 of the NY Times on September 15, 1895.  In true human-interest fashion, the “lede” is buried down in paragraph 11, although the preceding grafs provide interesting Victorian-Era-style information about the Arabs [...]

Archimandrite Sebastian (Dabovich) (1863-1940) was the first person ordained to the Orthodox priesthood who had been born in what was, at the time of his birth, United States territory, to wit, San Francisco, California, the son of Serbian immigrants.*  He was one of the pioneers in the service of the Moscow Patriarchate to Orthodox immigrants of many ethnic backgrounds in [...]

March 18, besides being the feast of the great Father of the Church, Cyril of Jerusalem, is also that of (the Repose of) St. Nikolai (Velimirovich, also Velimirovic) of South Canaan Penna., Ohrid and Zhicha - “the Serbian Chrysostom,” diplomat, missionary, prisoner and torture victim of Dachau, and theologian in Pennsylvania and Illinois.  He lived [...]

Italy’s former Orthodoxy is attested by the ancient icons and Greek icon-style murals and mosaics to be found in many old Latin churches there to this day.  Rome itself has at least one icon said to have been painted by St. Luke the Evangelist (like a few in Orthodox hands, or rather, graced to Orthodox [...]

According to their parish webpage at oca.org (scroll to bottom section), he appeared in a dream to several leaders.  How cool is that!  More details are on their own website.  (I guess they can’t work this into the movie!!)
Looks like they need help renovating, too, I imagine because the wet southern-Alaska coast weather is murder on [...]

What follows is an extended quote (from pp. 9-10) from Women and Men in the Church, a 1980 work/study by a committee of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). I’m still wrestling with all its implications, myself, but thought I’d offer it here as an example of an Orthodox approach to questions and issues:
Sacraments and [...]

St. Herman of Alaska, quoted in The Life of St. [sic] Herman of Alaska, Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, St. Petersburg, 1894, translated by Archpriest Vladimir Stakhy Borichevsky, reprinted in St. Herman of Alaska, The Orthodox Church in America, 1970, pp 19-39 (quote on p. 30):
If we love someone…we always remember them; we try [...]