Teaching, work with think tanks, work at the State Department, be a writer. Plenty of jobs.

Would you ever kill someone? Can children be given a saints name separate from their birth name in the Orthodox church? I would not kill someone Anyone being baptized can be given any saint name they wish. If you and The Eleventh Doctor had 24 hours to go wherever in the TARDIS where would you guys...

So you found a movie that's actually worse than Twilight?

So sorry to not have seen this before. I am Eastern Orthodox which includes Greek Orthodox but Greek, Russian etc are all part of the same unified Eastern Orthodox Church.

Ecumenism means promoting unity among the various Christian churches and denominations.

Your beliefs seem unchanged from 6 years ago and are equally cringy today as they were back then.

I'd say a start would be to actually consider the technical quality of the film. Then actually consider it an industry and not a ministry, so pay people what they're actually worth to get the quality of writing and technical know how needed to make a good film.

That was a good post, thanks for sharing it. I too have come to care less and less for this debate, I was never huge into it in the first place. But I'm taking a geology course right now so it piqued my interest.

Has anyone heard of these crystals before? Thoughts on the issues this brings up with Young Earth Creationism?

https://thenaturalhistorian.com/2017/02 ... ung-earth/

Blitz wrote:Personally, the second church. I'm more inclined to less formal settings. Personal preference. I'd probably like a bit more formal and less... boring.

What did you think of the two examples T.S. gave?

What is the important part?

Nope just those two choices, which would you choose?

But for the purpose of discussion what do you like specifically in the two examples you gave?

If you had to pick one of these two church interiors to use for your church which would you pick? http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I00002uuoUUgRxEM/fit=1000x750/Milan-Cathedral-3-Final.jpg http://www.eciconstruction.us/DesktopModules/AGIS-Catalog/Files/820f5a4c-d621-404f-a41d-f418c84521d6.jpg

How would you define fellowship?

What do you think the role of communal worship is in Christianity?

What do you think about it just being like a normal service? Should Christmas services be special in some way?

What do you think about the church telling people to stay home on Easter?

Do you think the main point of Sunday services is the sermon?

Do you think there is importance in having church on Sunday or Christmas Day itself or is having one or in your case multiple Christmas Eve services sufficient?

I would say that holding your own views for good reasons after critically examining the issues is what makes me respect someone.

The Eucharist is literally the Body & Blood of Christ, it is used to unite us with Christ.

I figured that was the usual purpose, my own parish posts the sermon portion of our service to YouTube precisely so people who were sick/unable to attend can see them. I was just curious to see what people's reasons for physically attending church were. To go off that I notice you didn't talk about ...

An interesting topic of discussion came up in the Christmas Day thread where several people said their churches were simply rebroadcasting sermons online. What do people think about watching sermons online instead of attending church? On a broader topic what is the point of physically attending chur...

Did your church give a reason?