Bede Douglas ☦️
@bededouglas.substack.com
Orthodox Christian, lover of all things ancient, and unapologetic Muppet purist.
Timely Words from North American Orthodox Bishops is a bi-weekly digest of the latest archpastoral letters from the North American episcopate. Here's regular issue no. 2. Subscribe for updates!
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Issue #2 September 8 through September 21, 2025
Our second edition features four messages from three bishops from the same three jurisdictions as in our first issue, GOARCH, the OCA, and the Antiochians.
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September 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Timely Words from North American Orthodox Bishops is a bi-weekly digest of the latest archpastoral letters from the North American episcopate. Here's regular issue no. 2. Subscribe for updates!
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Introducing a new service: publicizing the pastoral letters, homilies, and other guidance from the various Orthodox Bishops of North America
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Timely Words from Orthodox Bishops of North America | Bede Douglas | Substack
Aggregating the teachings and guidance of the Orthodox bishops of the North American churches. Click to read Timely Words from Orthodox Bishops of North America, by Bede Douglas, a Substack publicatio...
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September 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Introducing a new service: publicizing the pastoral letters, homilies, and other guidance from the various Orthodox Bishops of North America
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"Who indeed is capable of describing, who is capable of worthily imagining, how with blessed compunction they lowered to the earth the eyes with which they had looked at him whom the heavens were worshipping as their king...?" open.substack.com/pub/bededoug...
Witnessing the Ascension
The Ascension According to St. Bede, part 2
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May 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"Who indeed is capable of describing, who is capable of worthily imagining, how with blessed compunction they lowered to the earth the eyes with which they had looked at him whom the heavens were worshipping as their king...?" open.substack.com/pub/bededoug...
Yet for Bede, in the Ascension Christ’s humanity is also on display, and in a magnificent way. He treats the cloud of the Ascension as a sign of the mystery of the Incarnation itself. open.substack.com/pub/bededoug...
The Ascension as prefigured in the OT
The Ascension According to St. Bede, part 1
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May 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Yet for Bede, in the Ascension Christ’s humanity is also on display, and in a magnificent way. He treats the cloud of the Ascension as a sign of the mystery of the Incarnation itself. open.substack.com/pub/bededoug...
I've started a Substack. Not expecting to go the paywall route because who would pay to read it?
This is a FAQ called "Explaining the Orthodox Church (to those who barely care)".
This is a FAQ called "Explaining the Orthodox Church (to those who barely care)".
Explaining the Orthodox Church (to those who barely care)
A FAQ for those put into the position of asking, "What even is Orthodoxy?"
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May 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I've started a Substack. Not expecting to go the paywall route because who would pay to read it?
This is a FAQ called "Explaining the Orthodox Church (to those who barely care)".
This is a FAQ called "Explaining the Orthodox Church (to those who barely care)".
Lord, have mercy on His Eminence the Bishop of Rome. www.npr.org/2025/02/22/n...
Pope Francis is in critical condition, the Vatican says
The 88-year-old Francis has been hospitalized for a week with a complex lung infection.
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February 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Lord, have mercy on His Eminence the Bishop of Rome. www.npr.org/2025/02/22/n...
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"Perhaps the greatest betrayals of Scripture have been the many movements that have reduced it to a text...the true study of Scripture is...that which results in a life transformed into the image of Christ. The Liturgies of the Church embody this instinct."
"Perhaps the greatest betrayals of Scripture have been the many movements that have reduced it to a text...the true study of Scripture is...that which results in a life transformed into the image of Christ. The Liturgies of the Church embody this instinct."
The Scriptures and the Church - Glory to God For All Things
The notion of the “Scriptures” has undergone radical changes across the centuries. Today, we picture them as a single book, the Bible. Indeed, we picture that book as private property, perhaps a perso...
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January 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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"Perhaps the greatest betrayals of Scripture have been the many movements that have reduced it to a text...the true study of Scripture is...that which results in a life transformed into the image of Christ. The Liturgies of the Church embody this instinct."
"Perhaps the greatest betrayals of Scripture have been the many movements that have reduced it to a text...the true study of Scripture is...that which results in a life transformed into the image of Christ. The Liturgies of the Church embody this instinct."
“If you destroy the image of God, how can you undo what has been done? How can you resurrect the dead and return souls to their bodies?” — John Chrysostom theins.ru/en/opinion/n...
Blessing the Death Penalty: Why Patriarch Kirill's rhetoric increasingly diverges from Christian values
In late November, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia stirred up controversy by declaring that there is no need to dread nuclear war, as Christians are unafraid of the end of the world. Shortly ...
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December 24, 2024 at 5:39 AM
“If you destroy the image of God, how can you undo what has been done? How can you resurrect the dead and return souls to their bodies?” — John Chrysostom theins.ru/en/opinion/n...
"Some of the formulations contained in the text were not attested until many decades later...There is a reference to St. Titus...The text also contains an almost literal quotation from Paul's so-called Christ hymn from his letter to the Philippians..." aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/fran...
"Frankfurt silver inscription" - Oldest Christian testimony found north of the Alps | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Mysterious silver amulet turns science on its head A small silver amulet, just 3.5 cm in size, with a thin silver foil with a mysterious incision rolled into it: the […]
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December 16, 2024 at 3:38 AM
"Some of the formulations contained in the text were not attested until many decades later...There is a reference to St. Titus...The text also contains an almost literal quotation from Paul's so-called Christ hymn from his letter to the Philippians..." aktuelles.uni-frankfurt.de/english/fran...
We have 10 chickens in our large urban backyard, but 2 days ago 1 escaped. We thought she'd fed a neighborhood dog, and today we had terrible storms, flooding, and wind. I asked for the prayers of St. Modestos and then on our way out of the neighborhood, there she was. 🙏🏼❤️ 🐔 ☦️
January 10, 2024 at 4:01 AM
We have 10 chickens in our large urban backyard, but 2 days ago 1 escaped. We thought she'd fed a neighborhood dog, and today we had terrible storms, flooding, and wind. I asked for the prayers of St. Modestos and then on our way out of the neighborhood, there she was. 🙏🏼❤️ 🐔 ☦️
"...with these our hells and our heavens so few inches apart, we must be awfully small and not as strong as we think we are." Lord, have mercy! What a relief that He is good and loves mankind. "For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust."
The amazing thing about Orthodox Christianity is that it's the most sublime, beautiful doctrine and there are so many people incandescent with the radiance of God and it's also a deeply screwed up place with a lot of pain and dark history and fracture
January 5, 2024 at 7:25 PM
"...with these our hells and our heavens so few inches apart, we must be awfully small and not as strong as we think we are." Lord, have mercy! What a relief that He is good and loves mankind. "For He knows our frame; He is mindful that we are dust."