From OrthodoxWiki Revision as of 12:10, August 9, 2013 by FrJohn
(Talk | contribs) Jump to: navigation, search  I was born into
the United Methodist Church, but began to consider myself
Orthodox when I was 15, and formally joined a few years later. I
am a proponent of the reconciliation of the different branches
of Eastern Christianity, the Eastern Orthodox, the Oriental
Orthodox, and the Assyrian Church of the East, as all have a
similar theology, and the Christological differences between
them strike me as being petty and irrelevant, especially in
light of the gross and horrific heresies that now propagate
across the "Mainline" Protestant Churches, such as the
ordination of female and homosexual clergy, and the open and
active intervention of such churches in political issues,
through taking stands that are contrary to the best interests of
the Christian community as a whole.  It is my belief that, were
Nestorius and Clement, and those who met at Ephesus and
Chalcedon, given the opportunity to see the world