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Once upon a time, on the banks of a great river in the north of our world there lay a land called Shenanigonia.  The citizens of Shenanigonia were honest folk who lived in peace in their stone houses.  The years went by and everyone prospered and lived healthy lives.  Then one day, an extraordinary thing happened to disturb the peace.  Shenanigonia had always had guns, plenty to tell the truth, but the people had never felt they were in danger.  Why?  Well, of course, because the elders had always solved the gun problem in the usual way — by regulating them.  Suddenly the guns had begun to

During the OCA DOS Conference 2017, Chattanooga TN, (the local church is St. Tikhon Mission in Lookout Valley), Archbishop Alexander of Dallas and the South discusses Dionysius the Areopagite with a crowd at the Davidoff Lounge in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Bp. Alexander is consider the foremost living authority on the Dionysian corpus.