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‘He Is Painted As If He Were A God’

September 20, 2010 By admin 1 Comment

He explained how the robe presented the figure in a very aristocratic way. “In fact”, he said, “he is painted as if he were a God”. There was a pause and then he said, “Because that is who He is”

Filed Under: Clergy, Mainline Protestants Tagged With: convert, Fr. Michael Harry, icons, methodist, orthodox

Addressing Some Questions

June 29, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Part Five from the “Becoming Orthodox” blog. My friend Connie left the following comment and I thought I would address with a whole new post: I thought venerating icons meant kissing them? I don’t know, to me, Greek orthodoxy looks a lot like Catholicism by a different name and using different vocabulary. I am going […]

Filed Under: Mainline Protestants Tagged With: Becoming Orthodox blog, catholic, convert, icons, protestant, questions, roman, romaphobia

 



 

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