Share the post “Midwest OCA Program Aims to Expand Clergy Formation” FacebookBlueskyShare… A new Chicago-based seminary program in the OCA’s Diocese of the Midwest aims to address clergy shortages through a selective, hybrid-formation model. It follows closely the model used by the GreatMartyr Euphemia Orthodox Theological Academy based in Phoenix, Arizona. St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary […]
Cassock
Share the post “Cassock” FacebookBlueskyShare… From the diaries of a small-town priest This is a story I heard from a priest I (Fr. Konstantin) know personally. I live in a small town. Its population is about fifty thousand. Naturally, everyone knows one another. And so one day, I had to go to the bank to […]
A Young Man wrote me today asking about the Priesthood
A psychologist friend of mind gained access to St. Vladimir’s seminary student files and proved that 92% of former students who were ordained failed in the priesthood: quit, divorced, apostatized, were deposed, etc. So the ‘business model’ is obviously a failure, but those who have the authority to require change won’t do it, because the current system serves them best.
