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[…..]
Section: Sites
The Society of Christian Enlightenment: From “Heretical” Blog to Heretical Offline Community
On February 21, 2012, the feminist punk rock band Pussy Riot organized a performance, Punk Prayer: Mother of God, Drive Putin Away, at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. Participants danced and made the sign of the cross at the ambon and solea for less than a minute before being escorted outside the[…..]