Fr. Barnabas Powell

I am a husband, father, parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.☦️

[Fr. Barnabas Powell @FrBarnabas]

The explosion of pornography and its use is absolutely a symptom of loneliness.

This is why the liturgical rhythm of a Normal Orthodox life is salvific and necessary.

Is Everyone Getting the Problem of Pornography Wrong? https://t.co/GbXigTAFol

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@PaulVanderKlay Paul, thanks for the work and insight from the outside, looking in. It helps maintain perspective and offers data that makes for helpful context.

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@EthanWayne2001 Oh, Ethan, I didn't mean for it to be funny.

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What if the wrath of God is not His anger at all, but His love finally breaking through the fantasy we have hidden in?

The Light Coming On https://t.co/JwNx3MyYsv

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“Orthodox” but are you Christian?

[Orthodox Redneck☦️ @OrthoRedneck]

“Sometimes one’s zeal for ‘Orthodoxy’ can be so excessive that it produces a situation similar to that which caused an old Russian woman [babushka] to remark about an enthusiastic American convert: ‘Well, he’s certainly Orthodox, all right—but is he a Christian?’ To be ‘Orthodox’ but not ‘Christian’ is a state that has a particular name in Christian language: it means to be a pharisee, to be so bogged down in the letter of the Church’s laws that one loses the spirit that gives them life, the spirit of true Christianity.” ~ Fr. Seraphim Rose

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@steakshapiro Heartbreaking

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America as a Mission Field: What is the Gospel? with Fr Barnabas Powell ... https://t.co/M2kMQMtMQk via @YouTube

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@orthobro We will see. The fruit of labors always reveals value or not. May God bless our humility and love.

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At a breakfast meeting today with men preparing to serve the Church in the ordained life:

"If you have time to watch a 2-hour podcast debate about Orthodoxy, you have time to pray the hours"

True Orthodox formation won't come from debate, but from prayer and worship.

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This story is so ugly and tragic that it powerfully illustrates how ill identity politics really is. https://t.co/RUI5926Y5M

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@C2Antiquity Wisdom

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The obligation our culture treats as a threat to freedom is actually the doorway to discovering who you truly are.

Called to Belong to Jesus Christ https://t.co/pgZGDgkpEm

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The attentiveness that feels so exhausting is actually the Holy Spirit gently waking you up to real life?

Children of Light https://t.co/upie0bIPW9

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When you are incapable of accepting responsibility, you are incapable of maturity.

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Dear Political Machine,

Thank you for your incessant emails, spam calls, and junk mail postcards. Your ability to spend money is impressive.

However, at this time, I must inform you that you've cried "wolf" so often, I'm simply ignoring you.

[Fr. Barnabas Powell @FrBarnabas]

Proud that my brother and co-laborer, Fr Stephen DeYoung was able to witness our beautiful Orthodox faith on a large platform to many people!

Good strength, Father.

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@2m_rvs Good Strength

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One of the problems with NOT harmonizing the Fathers as Fr Stephen does is that you end up saying that all the Fathers closest in time to the Apostles who wrote on this topic were in error, and only later did the Church come to a correct understanding. This is dangerously close to the idea of development of doctrine. By showing how the earlier and later Fathers are actually in agreement, Fr Stephen helps us avoid this problem.

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An amazing wedding with two amazing young Orthodox Christians. Congratulations Demetrios and Maria