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by Joshua F
Mon 6 February 2006 5:59 pm
Forum: Praxis
Topic: How to Homeschool Your Children
Replies: 3
Views: 1926

May I ask where you attended university? Thanks for the kind words! I'm from Edmonton, Canada, and up here all the major universities are public state schools. They're mostly quite good, and you can't beat the tuition... until you get to Europe, where it's free :D I earned my undergraduate degree (...
by Joshua F
Mon 6 February 2006 5:16 pm
Forum: Praxis
Topic: How to Homeschool Your Children
Replies: 3
Views: 1926

As a homeschooled student until university, I have some familiarity with the subject from that angle. There's no doubt that homeschooling has some unique challenges and rewards. I had to learn to get along with my family (four siblings) and spent more time with people younger and older than me, with...
by Joshua F
Thu 21 July 2005 6:59 am
Forum: Heterodox Groupings
Topic: GOA now tonsuring women as clergy?
Replies: 152
Views: 50324

Jean-Serge wrote:

Could someone explain what is written in Russian? What does this mean??

What does it look like it means? :shock:

by Joshua F
Mon 18 July 2005 6:54 pm
Forum: Heterodox Groupings
Topic: More on Monophysites...
Replies: 70
Views: 21658

One could say that Christ did not have the capacity to sin, but then He is not the God-man, He is not God united to man in perfect cooperation, He is not really man, rather, He is God disguised as a man, God, who seems to have hijacked a man’s body because there was no better way to give us this me...
by Joshua F
Thu 14 July 2005 3:12 am
Forum: Heterodox Groupings
Topic: On the Virgin Birth and the New Teaching of St. Vladimir's
Replies: 9
Views: 2498

Thank you for this. I knew Fr. Hopko held this position, and it came up in conversation recently - the discussion here is quite useful.

by Joshua F
Sat 9 July 2005 3:56 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Issues
Topic: Is this forum orthodox traditionnalist or capitalist?
Replies: 11
Views: 3096

I have heard of someone selling welcome mats for wiping your feet on that are decorated with the cross - this is absolutely appalling to me. However, the cafe is not selling anything that puts the cross on the ground. I do agree that we need to treat the cross with great respect. I was taught that y...
by Joshua F
Thu 7 July 2005 2:51 am
Forum: Monasteries and the Monastic Life
Topic: Esphigmenou Declaration on ROCOR
Replies: 30
Views: 21902

Here is the court transcripts on ROCOR-L vs. Metropolitan Vitaly: http://www.rocie.org/articles/90/1.html Though it's worth reading, to summarize, this document is the judgement of the chief justice of the New York supreme court on the question of whether or not Metropolitan Vitaly is competent to ...