Recent content by DerekMK

The Little Ukrainians are just Ukrainians who have been been under the influence of Hungarian and Slovakian fascists.  There is no Little Ukrainian Dialect, nonetheless it should be forbidden to use it.  I've never heard this logic before, have you. Completely unrelated but I'm planning a...

The Fr. Sidor saga shows precisely the problem, Slavs really don't make good neighbors with each other.  In most cases it seems like the group in power tries to assimilate the weaker neighbor  (For what its worth even the Magic Kingdom has the same problem).  So if the people in ACROD are happy...

This would be the one, Fr. Dmitri Sidor. 

I think impersonating a bishop is a pretty serious breach of the canons. 

As for the claim that the new hierarch doesn't speak the language of the Ruthenian people, does this mean that he doesn't speak English?  I'm willing to bet that hardly anyone among the flock has any true fluency in Church Slavonic and it is doubtful that many under 35 have anything but a scant...

That was more or less my point.  The Orthodox aren't really conducting active missionary work and have a gotcha sense of self-righteousness about having "the Truth."  Part of the problem is generational.  Everyone Patriarch Gundyaev's age simply has no idea how to attract free people to do...

Good luck finding a Ukrainian woman without a master's degree, doesn't speak multiple languages and certainly would have greater career prospects than an American teenager who dreams of becoming a rapper. 

Of course the typical Ukrainian woman is topless and wielding a chainsaw. 

This seems to be the complacent self-righteousness of most of Orthodoxy.  Missionary work is for Evangelicals and Catholics.  They can do the heavy lifting.  We'll cherry pick from their work. You're coming out of left field here.  Orthodoxy came to Ukraine before Russia and has deep...

I can see the UGCC securing a stronghold in the Ukrainian parts of the country, but in Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov and Donetsk they have just about a single parish in each city.  Otherwise I agree with your point, especially about places like Zhytomyr.  I can't really speak about Zakarpats'ka or...

I live in Eastern Ukraine, but the situation is pretty similar just across the border.   You'd be surprised at how many people don't see the Orthodox Church as their logical spiritual home.  The Evangelicals tell people to pray, read the scriptures (in a language people understand) and try to...

Death is often synonymous with hanging from a cross unless one is a Muslim or Jehovah's Witness.  Zenovia: To put the former USSR into context, within a 15 minute walk from my flat there is a single Orthodox Church.  There are three moderate sized Evangelical communities, one large Baptist...

So the death sentence for destruction of property somehow squares with Christian morality?  Could you provide a single example of what you mean? 

Interesting - hasn't she seems odd to me since tag questions usually repeat the auxiliary verb, which in this case is does.  The tricky thing with teaching English is that usage changes a lot faster than what grammarians say is proper.  And when I try to ask people they usually say they think is...

Time for a question from the local grammar Nazi.... Which sentence sounds more natural to the native English speakers on the forum: Liza has a heard of gold, hasn't she? Liza has a heart of gold, doesn't she?  Liza's got a heart of gold, hasn't she?