Friday, 22 April 2011
A Photo Essay. Hangin’ With His Holiness… Orthodox Holy Week 2011 in Moscow… The People’s Church Writ Large
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On the one hand, you have Freddie Matthewes-Greene of NPR, JP and his merry band of cut-throats, jumped-up konvertsy frauds bloviating on the “Jesus Prayer” (truly, the Prayer of the Heart is much too serious a matter to be treated in such a risable manner) on PBS TV, and Behr and his troupe of overeducated Sad Sacks in Yonkers… or, you can have a little girl lighting a candle with much faith. I’ll not lie… I much prefer the latter to the former, for I favour the real over the illusory. You see the same alternatives, the same choice faces you… you can be a Proud and Hubristical Pharisee with the konvertsy, or, you can be an Ordinary Sinful-Ginful Publican with His Nibs and the rest of the REAL Church. I choose the People’s Church over the Professors’ Church… what about you?
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