When the Homily is about Immunology

Cosmic Christianity

As if I have not had an overdose of Fr. Michael Oleksa and Alaskan Orthodoxy, I googly stumbled into this article.

In reading about the monastics support of the native peoples I was reminded of the movie "The Mission" with Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons. But we're not talking about "liberation theology" here, we're simply talking about Orthodox Christianity. And specifically how Orthodoxy was able to mesh so well with the native culture and conflict so readily with the spirit that brought so many to Alaska: materialism.

It is fascinating to read about how the early Russian-American Company leaders (Baranov) ended up regretting so deeply their appeal for priests to come to Alaska.