PhD in theology from the University of Chicago.
Since the beginning of the Church, Christian thinkers have pondered the question, What does it mean to be created in the image of God? But at the end of the nineteenth century, new questions began to emerge among Russian religious thinkers: What is the purpose of woman? And what might it mean to be created[…..]
In the original foreword to his book Christian Faith and Same-Sex Attraction: Eastern Orthodox Reflections, Fr. Thomas Hopko recounts a story about a gay man he received into the Orthodox Church and with whom he became friends. On reading a manuscript for Fr. Tom’s book, a memory came to the man. As a child, he[…..]
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