Gender and Sexuality

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Thinking Out Loud: In Response to the OCA’s Curbing of Intellectual Freedom
Gender and Sexuality, Orthodoxy and Modernity, Religion and the Academy

Thinking Out Loud: In Response to the OCA’s Curbing of Intellectual Freedom

by on September 13, 2022
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by Very Rev. Dr. Isaac Skidmore I would like to respond to the Statement on Same-sex Relationships and Sexual Identity, issued by the Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America during the recent All-American Assembly in Baltimore in July. I believe it will be evident I have concerns about the statement’s curtailment of…

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Freedom from Fear <br><span style='color:#8D8381;font-size:18px;'>Response to the Statement of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America</span>
Documents, Gender and Sexuality, Religion and the Academy

Freedom from Fear
Response to the Statement of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America

by , on August 4, 2022
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“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” (1 John 4:18) In our inaugural editorial in 2015, we stated: “The Wheel is a journal for the intelligent and constructive articulation of the Christian Gospel…

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To Baptize or Not: God’s Love and Image
Church Life and Pastoral Care, Gender and Sexuality, Liturgical Life

To Baptize or Not: God’s Love and Image

by on July 26, 2022
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On July 9, 2022, Archbishop Elpidophoros, the primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, baptized the children of celebrity fashion designer Peter Dundas and Evangelo Bousis in a church near Athens. Reactions to the news of the baptism of children of a same-sex couple were predictable. The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of…

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Fullness of Faith or Fullness of Fear? <br><span style='color:#8D8381;font-size:18px;'>On Prohibiting Open Theological Discussion</span>
Gender and Sexuality, Orthodoxy and Modernity, Theology

Fullness of Faith or Fullness of Fear?
On Prohibiting Open Theological Discussion

by on July 22, 2022
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by Gregory Tucker At the conclusion of the “Bridging Voices” conference in Oxford in 2019, I thanked the distinguished group of participants for restoring my confidence in the church as a discursive society bound by love of and in Christ. Our meeting was demanding, at times very tense, and inconclusive, but commitment to working through…

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Domestic Violence, Faith, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church <br><span style='color:#8D8381;font-size:18px;'>16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence</span>
Gender and Sexuality

Domestic Violence, Faith, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence

by on November 30, 2021
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by Romina Istratii As the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign takes off, it is an opportune time to revisit the role of faith and theology in addressing domestic violence. The relationship between faith/spirituality and domestic violence is not a simple one, but it is definitely one that should be understood with the…

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The Paradigm of Compassionate Denial
Church Life and Pastoral Care, Gender and Sexuality

The Paradigm of Compassionate Denial

by on June 3, 2021
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by Inga Leonova | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски To a casual reader of social media, it may appear that the culture war battles in the Orthodox circles around human sexuality have finally ceased, especially compared to the raging 2010s. I think that, rather, the lines have been drawn,…

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