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I was talking with an Eastern Orthodox priest earlier this week about my struggle deciding between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, and one of the things about Western Christianity he said was an innovation was the use of statues instead of icons. As I understand it, statues are a form of iconography...

Well, this wasn't unexpected, but the 2024 UMC General Conference was everything traditionalists feared and more. Here is a summary of the results of the conference: https://goodnewsmag.org/249154-2/ A summary of the summary: the Book of Discipline was modified to remove not only the...

The documentary series Mass of the Ages recently released the third part of their trilogy: Episode III Has anyone else watched it? I thought they did a pretty good job of showing the initial allowance of the TLM and its restriction under Pope Francis, although they were much lighter on the...

The recently published declaration, Dignitas Infinita, says this about the death penalty: This statement that the death penalty violates human dignity "regardless of circumstances" seems to be saying that the death penalty is intrinsically immoral. The only way I can see this not being the case...

I'm just getting into hand tool woodworking and so far I'm finding it a great way to relieve stress and work with my hands after a long day of sitting at a desk job. I've been surprised at how effective hand tools are, and even getting top-of-the-line tools you pay way less than you would with a...

Basically the question in the title: have the Oriental Orthodox had any councils considered universal, or attempted to have one, since the time of Chalcedon? I'm thinking of something like the Eastern Orthodox council of Crete in 2016. If not, why?

From my interactions with an Orthodox priest and from what I've read online, it seems like the Orthodox have a very low opinion of Augustine. Many seem to be hesitant to refer to him as "Saint" and instead say "Blessed Augustine" or just "Augustine," and I've seen attitudes on him varying from...

I'm doing some research on the denominations that preceded the United Methodist Church. The evolution of discipline within the Methodist Episcopal Church (North and South) is pretty well documented in their Doctrines and Discipline published every four years, but I haven't been able to find much...