Hmmmm, I feel like we’ve had orthodox believers before. I think @Transformator Reformator has had extensive exposure to our eastern brothers.
I thought I'd heard recently that Russia is now somewhat more tolerant of polygyny due to the severe demographic issues that they are facing due to low birth rates.
Hopefully both Ukraine and Russia will become more accepting of polygyny. Both nations have lost a lot of men in this current war. Many women will be left without men. In all likelihood, they will either share men, or marry Muslim replacement immigrants.
That's a lot more Orthodox cred than most Protestants!I attended a Russian Orthodox church with a Russian friend on one occasion, and have extracted honey from beehives with a Greek Orthodox priest once.
That probably isn't enough to gain much Orthodox street cred.
Never heard of him before but did a search and realized I initially misinterpreted what you meant by "responded to polygyny." I thought you meant "responded favorably" but found several articles indicating the opposite, that he debated against Biblical polygyny advocate Rob Kowalski.
Sorry, I don't remember for certain if it was in Russian or English. It was a church in the San Francisco Bay area where one of my buddies from college lived in the late 1990s. As I recall the priest was an African American fellow and I remember that he was fluent in Russian. I think the service probably was in Russian.
I love how you phrased this!
I's not only the Orthodox church that will do it to you. Protestants and Roman Catholic will too
Yeah but only the east uses that great old word “anathema”!I's not only the Orthodox church that will do it to you. Protestants and Roman Catholic will too
I wonder if it is the same book I started reading but never finished it. I have it in Russian. There he specifies being a Baptist at one time. But my impression that he reacts to certain Slavic Baptists, stringent kind, (for example, some groups made rules about not wearing jeans and ties were forbidden because it points to hell as an arrow). I hoped author's version of Orthodox understanding will rob off on traditional Orthodox faithful. He took his faith seriously as opposed to nominal believers. But same thing can be observed about many protestants as well. The author's justification for kissing icons impressed me so much that I thought I should be kissing icons as well.
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