{"id":1295,"date":"2016-09-02T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=7657"},"modified":"2016-09-02T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:27:00","slug":"134-july-4171973-royal-new-martyrs-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/?p=1295","title":{"rendered":"134. July 4\/17,1973. Royal New Martyrs of Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Alexey \u2014<\/p>\n<p>Just a short note, Fr. E s letter has sunk in a little deeper, and it makes us even more disturbed than at first. This is not an answer to anything, and is a disservice to English-speaking Orthodox Christians. Such \u201ctheology\u201d we do not need. We thought of writing a note to him ourselves, but there is no point, since he already has read our letters to Fr. Neketas defending you and speaking of the need for all of us to get rid of our \u201cAmerican modern\u201d intellectual baggage re: evolution, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Without entering into a public debate with him, we should by all means try to present sound Orthodox views on those points where he is obviously off the beam. Your \u201cevolution\u201d booklet will be very important from this point of view, and we are writing out a number of points which we hope to see treated or mentioned there, and also some suggestions on how to avoid being placed into certain stereotyped categories, by which people can be persuaded not even to listen to what you say. Do you have a general outline of the article yet?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve written Dr. Kalomiros a letter, and hope to receive confirmation of our suspicion that he is quite wrongly used as virtually a proponent of evolution.<\/p>\n<p>How are you? Not frightfully discouraged, we hope? \u2014 With love in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Seraphim, monk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Alexey \u2014 Just a short note, Fr. E s letter has sunk in a little deeper, and it makes us even more disturbed than at first. This is not an answer to anything, and is a disservice to English-speaking Orthodox Christians. Such \u201ctheology\u201d we do not need. We thought of writing a note to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxaustralia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}