Excellent article about a misunderstood man. Some of his more intemperate outbursts at us in Orthodoxy scare me (I�ve looked at For the Life of the World) � dangerous stuff that if taken out of context could lead to things like the post-Vatican II d�b�cle � but now I think I understand �where he was coming from�. (And I�ve seen the extreme he was railing against.) He resembled the legit Roman Catholic pre-V2 liturgical movement (which is not to blame for what happened), which he influenced.
I have a beard � as Stuart can attest it is reaching healthy Orthodox mu�ik proportions � and use Slavonic in my prayers but am not living in la-la land. I hang out in SoHo and Greenwich Village. I go to R-rated art films. I drink occasionally and sporadically date. I count among people I love musician acquaintances who are discreetly �pro-choice� (and nicer people than some Christians I�ve been acquainted with), and even though that hurts me I remains friends with them. Being in the world, but not of it: doing so is a tightrope act but not one that requires trashing a rite as happened in the Latin Church after the 1960s. Fr Alexander agreed.
Serge
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