Past as Prologue: OCANews.org and the Orthodox Internet

Unlike Caesar’s Gaul, the current Orthodox Internet is in four parts: church websites (official or semi-official), the larger blogosphere, an audiosphere, and a much smaller videosphere. Yet this online realm also has much in common with Roman Gaul. For just as one modern Latin writer stated about Caesar’s conquest, “all Gaul stinks,” so the Orthodox internet reminds one of Lazarus in the tomb: “He stinketh” (John 11:39, KJV).