Anastasios Hudson

Category: Correspondence

  • Thoughts on the Russian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate

    The following question was recently posed to me on my personal Facebook page, by a Ukrainian friend of mine, who is a college professor. Dear Anastasios… Just what do you think about the current status of, and what do you think about, this “Russian Orthodox Church?” You see, I’ve known you “virtually,” in “cyber space,” […]

  • Ordained by a New Calendar Bishop?

    Part of my ongoing Correspondence series, featuring replies to people who contacted me and asked questions. Based on your research, Is it true that one of the ordaining bishops of Metropolitan Petros was with the “New Calendar but under the ROCOR” like I have read? You’re getting things mixed up a bit—Metropolitan Petros was ordained by ROCOR Bishop […]

  • Answering a Sincere New Calendarist Inquirer

    Part of my ongoing Correspondence series, featuring replies to people who contacted me and asked questions. Dear in Christ A., Since the last time we talked I have looked into some other “true” churches and have been absolutely appalled at much of their beliefs. However, this is still not the case for your church. Who from what […]

  • New Calendarist Elders

    Part of my ongoing Correspondence series, featuring replies to people who contacted me and asked questions, mostly when I served as a priest (2008-2013). Dear Chris, I’m not surprised that you are struggling with the issue of how to view the New Calendarist elders. Almost everyone who comes down this path has to confront this […]

  • Statements Against Ecumenism by New Calendarists

    Part of my ongoing Correspondence series, featuring replies to people who contacted me and asked questions, mostly when I served as a priest (2008-2013). What is your take on this? Very strongly worded. The list of signers is impressive. A Confession of Faith Against Ecumenism Dear M., I rejoice when people in the New Calendar […]

  • Angry Orthodox

    Part of my ongoing Correspondence series, featuring replies to people who contacted me and asked questions, mostly when I served as a priest (2008-2013). Dear Father Anastasios, Thank you for your message. At the moment I am with ROCiE, but am wondering where to look within Orthodoxy for doctrinal purity without a rigid, cold, legalistic […]

  • Uncanonical

    Part of my ongoing Correspondence series, featuring replies to people who contacted me and asked questions, mostly when I served as a priest (2008-2013). Dear V., The Calendar was changed in 1924, and that was a big event in Greece.  At that time, about 25% of the people rejected the change, by some accounts.  Monks from Mount […]

  • Scripture “versus” Tradition, and the End Times

    Part of my ongoing Correspondence series, featuring replies to people who contacted me and asked questions, mostly when I served as a priest (2008-2013). Dear Tim, Finally, I have time to write you back! I was unusually busy the past two weeks. I’ve read a little about the Greek Orthodox Church, enough to know that there is […]

  • Tradition vs. Custom for Protestants

    Part of my ongoing Correspondence series, featuring replies to people who contacted me and asked questions, mostly when I served as a priest (2008-2013). Dear M., “Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle” (II Thessalonians 2:15). I have long thought that Evangelical Protestants approach problems […]

  • African Orthodox Christianity

    The following is the first in a new series for the site; I will begin posting correspondence that I had with various individuals which contain information of interest to a broader audience, with names and identifying information redacted for privacy. In this particular case, unfortunately I never heard back from the individual addressed below, but […]