#Orthodoxy

Yeah, this. Trump would need Senate GOP *and* either enough Dems to break filibuster of adjourn res or enough GOP to nuke rules. But if he had votes to nuke
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1) Working on an article on Bavinck and the importance of the home. His ideas (in 1917) for 'social reformation' to strengthen society by strengthening the home included some interesting
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People Who Should Be Canonized: A Thread 1. Seraphim Rose was an American hieromonk of the ROCOR and co-founder of the St Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina, California. A
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Thread on the Treasury austerity leak: 1/ The HMT base case is no longer a v-shaped recovery but a U, with longer recovery and permanent scarring, costing a £337bn deficit
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This is a complicated question, because like all priestly questions, it assumes a vast edifice of doctrines, teachings, scriptures, assertions, and assumptions. You are not a priest, only a parishioner,
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wow."twitter slowing retweets to slow spread of misinformation"you misspelled "twitter throttling dissent from their preferred orthodoxy to put a thumb on the scale of national discourse."let's see if this gets
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@PatriarchPrimus @mikias83644846 @TatianJnr @GmTimobo24 My fellow based and distinguished African-American gentleman,I have gathered you here on this thread to address the problems with in our community. So let us begin.
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So a lot happened this week that stirred the hornets' nest across the Black Twitter diaspora.I'm gonna double back to this @BBCAfrica post. Many folks cite incidents like it as
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It's why I usually refer to "fundamentalists" or "fanatics" rather than, say, "extremists" or "radicals". Rejecting the Quran's origin myth would, in a context of Islam, be "extreme"
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been thinking a lot tonight about non-muslims - and by this, I mean predominantly white atheists - who are anti-theistic but accept my self-identification as muslim because in their eyes,
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As I work through Catenae MSS I can't help escaping the theological questions that arise from the make up of these artifacts. A list of commentators found in the MS
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ThreadWhy do Orthodox women wear headscarves? What do they represent? Why does Saint Paul mandate women to wear them? This thread will explain the Scriptural and Patristic reasoning for why
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A great conversation with @NPRKelly just now helped me crystallize some thoughts on Russia and the West. In the spirit of twitter, written without nuance. Comments welcome. THREAD 1/ Conventional
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The recent announcements from major advertisers pulling back from the large social media channels due to ‘controversial content’ are part of a larger theme. This could develop in a number
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Not sure why I care so much, but the bumpkins over at The Orthosphere keep deleting my rebuttal to a half-assed post they made on Gnosticism. A thread. Original article:https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2020/01/02/stuart-holroyd-gnosticism-
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#MirSayyidAliHamdani: Probabaly the foremost transnational Sufi figure who visited Kashmir in the medieval times, Sayyid Ali (1314-84) was a prominent Shaykh of the Kubrawi order. While historically, it is certain
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