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Our Problem with Forgiveness

by Katherine Kelaidis on October 17, 2019 | Views: 4338 | Readers' rating:

by Katherine Kelaidis | ελληνικά | ру́сский People really like Hell. Or at least they really like the idea of Hell. And many are positively gleeful at the notion of some or another of their fellow human beings being tormented forever in its fiery furnaces (that’s right, forever, f... Read more.

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Eating Disorders and the Case for Open Communion

by Katherine Kelaidis on May 31, 2019 | Views: 3775 | Readers' rating:

by Katherine Kelaidis Before I go any further, let me say, I know the arguments for “closed communion,” that is, the practice of allowing only Orthodox Christians who have prepared through confession and fasting and have received the blessing of a spiritual father to receive the Eucharist. I am ... Read more.

Culture and Arts, Orthodoxy and Modernity, Women in the Church

Headscarves, Modesty, and Modern Orthodoxy

by Katherine Kelaidis on May 17, 2018 | Views: 15056 | Readers' rating:

by Katherine Kelaidis Yiayia Kay kept her scarves in the far upper right hand corner of the long light oak dresser. By the time I was old enough to remember, she never took them out except to garden. She would drape one of the silk covers over her perfectly coiffed hair to protect it against...... Read more.

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St. Kassiani, Sex Workers, and FOSTA-SESTA

by Katherine Kelaidis on April 20, 2018 | Views: 2105 | Readers' rating:

by Katherine Kelaidis | ελληνικά | ру́сский This is not an essay 1) advocating sex work or 2) denying the need for repentance. This is an essay asking us to reconsider how we treat sex workers. If there is one thing that even the most theologically illiterate can accurat... Read more.

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Church Life and Pastoral Care, Gender and Sexuality

My Gay Orthodox Friend’s Suicide

by Katherine Kelaidis on October 27, 2017 | Views: 11515 | Readers' rating:

by Katherine Kelaidis | ελληνικά | ру́сский Last August, the first real friend I ever made at church took his own life. Jonathan (not his real name) was a year ahead of me at Cal where we met my freshman year. He was received into the Orthodox Church during the weekly litu... Read more.

Religion and Politics

My Silent Church

by Katherine Kelaidis on March 16, 2017 | Views: 3341 | Readers' rating:

by Katherine Kelaidis Above my desk is a sign I bought years ago in an antique shop in the town where my Yiayia Kay grew up. It says, “No Dogs, No Greeks.” I originally bought it with a fair amount of Millennial irony, too gleeful at the fact that it would preside over a room...... Read more.

Orthodoxy and Modernity

Why Is the Church Silent about Anti-LGBT+ Violence in Russia?

by Katherine Kelaidis on January 9, 2017 | Views: 1760 | Readers' rating:

by Katherine Kelaidis There are a lot of really good reasons to ban FIFA ’17, including the bevy of corruption scandals that seem to plague the governing body of the world’s most popular sport. But a group of Russian MPs, many from Vladimir Putin’s own United Russia Party, have managed to seiz... Read more.

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Why Is the Church Silent about Anti-LGBT+ Violence in Russia?

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