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I am an Orthodox convert from American Protestantism. I was a former member of the Christian Church and then the Methodist Church. I left the Methodist Church with my family the day I saw a rainbow banner hanging from the cross outside the Church. And now I see a prominent picture of Rowan Williams, Archbiship of Canterbury, in my e-mail from the OCN and the news that he is receiving an honorary doctorate from St. Vladimir's. You cannot believe how disappointing to this convert it is to hear all of the erudite accolades and intellectual snobbery in the introduction to Rowan Williams. When you consider his promotion for the acceptance of the gay agenda within the Episcopal Church despite the Church's teaching, it is beyond me why would call him "His Grace". If Mr. Williams is caught between a rock in a hardplace, it is between his honesty to himself about his beliefs regarding human sexuality and his dishonesty to the Church whose teaching he vowed to uphold but doesn't. Your supposed erudition and conferring of degrees doesn't hold a candle to the simple heart felt prayers of my somewhat uneducated Protestant mother. If I have one thing to be thankful for from all of this, it is to recognize that you can be Orthodox and yet not formally Orthodox. And just because you wear robes and long hair and call people "Your Grace" and his "Eminence" and pontificate on the "mysteries", it doesn't make you one bit better than the ordinary person in the pew. Truly my mother's love and teaching of Christ conferred upon me the Orthodox faith from my youth well before I even chose to become a formal Orthodox member. Thanks for your strong stand on the faith! NOT!

Why didn't the academics go a step further and honor the master of all academics who study Orthodox Bible and writings and promote evil and sinful lifestyles at the same time. His Name: The Devil ...assuming svs teachers still believe in the Orthodox Teaching of the reality of The Devil :-(.

The words of The Holy Spirit with our Apostle Paul given to the Orthodox Church in Corinth come to mind:
"It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person."

I remember our Apostle John's reaction to Cerinthus, where St. John The Theologian called the faithful to flee from a public bathroom because the heretic Cerinthus had entered the building and it might fall on all of them. And Polycarp's reaction to Marcion "I do know you. You're the firstborn of satan." This early Church apostolic response is very different than what saint Vladimir seminary revealed about the words of Metropolitan Jonah, primate of Orthodox Church of America to Rowan Williams: " desire for a deeper personal friendship and their hope for deeper understanding and cooperation between their respective communions".

St. Jude, the brother of James, wrote to us Orthodox: "Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities."

what happened at SVS does not reflect the theology of the Orthodox Church. It was wrong.

I want to focus more on working out my own salvation and overcoming my own many many faults as chief of sinners, specially with lent almost upon us. I am praying that God would grant this humble servant to speak the Truth boldly without going outside of any bounds of The Holy Spirit, but I do not trust even myself, and ask God to be Merciful unto me the chief of sinners in the Name of The Holy Trinity by which I was baptized into The Orthodox Church of Heaven & Earth, where Christ is our Head. Whether out of weakness or zeal for The Truth I write, I will not judge myself but plead with God for His Mercies always that I might remain true to the Orthodox path of honoring Christ always.

humbly in Christ,
Anthony

Phoszoe admitted to:
(1) disappointment followed by exclamation marks;
(2) opposition to erudition and intellectual snobbery in an academic introduction for an academic award ceremony;
(3) quizzical distaste for formal conventions of speech that are standard fare for respect of ecclesiastical dignitaries, which ostensibly must include distaste for a formal convention of speech for "His Beatitude" Jonah as well as stated opposition to "His Grace" Rowan;
(4) identification of Archbishop Rowan William's dishonest behavior;
(5) presumed dereliction of duty by the Archbishop;
(6) derision for academic regalia; and
(7) a tone that is arguably as angry as it is irascible.

If I have fairly summarized the assertions contained in the comment, I would like to make a few remarks.

First, all of us have a wonderful invitation in the Great Fast to accompany one another along the road of taking up our crosses to follow Christ. Sometimes just knowing that someone has listened to what hurts us can serve as an analogue of spiritual accompaniment. In other words, I cannot accompany you in a literal sense. If my summary were to have conveyed anything else, please forgive me.

Second, as regards your mother and steady hand to guide you in the Faith of the Apostles, I was inspired by how much you love her. In addition, I pray that God hear my prayer for all of us that we continue to clear from ourselves all hindrances to manifesting Christ as we approach Pascha.

Thanks for the lectures. Many good things were noted and said, by Rowan Williams. He is obviously 'a smart cookie'. We were presented with some good insights from various writers—many of whom I had heard and known nothing. Rowan Williams seems to be far wiser, and far more at home in the theological lecture hall, than he is in the churchmanship role, of crucial decision-making on the global stage.