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March 11 2022 By dvirtue Needed: An Ecumenical Reset

In 1971, at the tender age of twenty-five, then-Archimandrite Kirill was sent by the patriarchate of Moscow as a Russian Orthodox representative to the World Council of Churches in Geneva. Ten years earlier, the Soviet regime, then conducting a draconian persecution that shut down half the country's Orthodox churches, had "allowed" the Russian Orthodox Church to join the World Council. The regime's motives were hardly ecumenical, however.

March 10 2022 By dvirtue First there was #ACNAtoo; then came #ACCtoo. Where is #TECtoo?

#ACNAtoo

In 2021 rumors rippled around Bishop Stewart Ruch (I ACNA Diocese of the Upper Midwest) for failing to reveal to his diocese alligations of child sex abuse leveled against Mark Rivers, a catechist, at Christ Our Light Church, an ACNA church plant in Big Rock, Illinois.

March 10 2022 By dvirtue Russia Is Mordor, But the West Is Sodom

Tyranny seems to run in the Russian blood, going all the way back to the country's long subjugation by Mongols. When the Muscovite tsars rose instead, centralized their power, and unified the country, they rejected a key distinction that existed in the West -- the difference between sovereignty and ownership.

March 09 2022 By dvirtue Go Ahead. Pray for Putin's Demise

When I think of it, I am heartbroken. But I also feel angry. I brush up against something like a maternal sense of rage. An innocent child was violently killed because Russia's leader decided that he wanted a neighboring sovereign country as his own.

March 08 2022 By dvirtue Honor women by lifting up biblical womanhood

During my time at Lifeline Children's Services, I've been given the honor of working alongside so many incredible, Godly women who live out the Biblical plan for womanhood every day in their work defending the lives of children and vulnerable women. Through our (un)adopted strategic global orphan care programs, where we offer support for orphans who aren't eligible for adoption, I have continually been introduced to so many women who live out Biblical faith around the world.

March 08 2022 By dvirtue The religious roots of Ukrainian resistance - George Weigel

During a March 3 press conference in Moscow, Lavrov continued to defend the Russian "special military operation" (not "war") in Ukraine as an effort to "demilitarize" and "de-Nazify" that country, and promised that the "operation" would continue until the "weapons and infrastructure that threaten" Russia are destroyed.

March 06 2022 By dvirtue 10 Ways the Church Can Better Prepare to Fight Today's Suicide Epidemic

(1) Identify In-House Experts.

The very first step is to identify and consult in-house experts. Most churches have a family physician, general internist, emergency doctor, psychiatrist, psychiatric social worker, psychiatric nurse, or school counselor among them who could share suicide prevention resources and guidance.

(2) Begin a Small-Group Study.

March 03 2022 By dvirtue Ukraine: no grave is large enough to contain the spirit of freedom

People say Putin is mad, but he really is not. Others say he's badly miscalculated, and will be removed. But he didn't, and he won't be. At least not soon: he is in this for the long haul. It is a war he must win, and the West will let him: Ukraine's freedom is the price of Europe's freedom -- or the rest of Europe's freedom. We know it, but don't say it. And Putin knows it, so he will continue to the end. Ukraine will be re-absorbed into the Russian fold, come what may.

March 03 2022 By dvirtue Why white evangelical Christians are Putin's biggest American fan base

At this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, which wrapped up over the weekend, Lauren Witzke, a GOP candidate for the Senate in Delaware, said: "Here's the deal. Russia is a Christian nationalist nation. They're actually Russian Orthodox. ... I identify more with Putin's Christian values than I do with Joe Biden."

March 02 2022 By dvirtue Putin's wrath shows the danger in cosying up to 'Christian' autocrats

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has not criticised the invasion, even though it has already cost hundreds of lives and could turn Kyiv, the birthplace of Russian Orthodoxy, into a smoking wasteland. He merely issued a brief and bland appeal for prayer for peace: "I call on all parties to the conflict to do everything possible to avoid civilian casualties.".

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