Phil Dorroll

I made a starter pack for specialists in Eastern Christian Studies- check it out, share with others, and let me know who else to add! go.bsky.app/8a9jSuF

For those in Washington, DC, there will be a candlelight vigil tonight at 5:45 pm outside of the Embassy of Jordan for the victims of the Karak Church attack in Jordan, which claimed the lives of 8 people and injured 34 people.

The church was St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church. Statement from the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem:

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

St. Nicholas was the only house of worship destroyed on September 11. Its rebuilding reflects the spirit that carried New Yorkers through the days, months and years in the wake of the attack: a belief in each other, the hope of recovery, and a determination to begin again.

This afternoon, I joined Archbishop Elpidophoros and faith leaders at St. Nicholas National Shrine to mark the 25 years since the horrific terror attacks of 9/11 and reflect on the resilience of our city.

Really enjoyed @phildorroll.bsky.social's piece on patriarchy, virtue, & Orthodoxy today in Public Orthodoxy. publicorthodoxy.org/2026/09/02/h...

Recently discovered a new favorite icon (The Virgin Hodegetria, 15th century; Lviv, Ukraine; in Miliayeva, “The Ukrainian Icon”)

A must-read assessment of the state of modern Eastern Orthodox Christian theology via @publicorthodoxy.bsky.social “Orthodoxy might not die out, but it still might die inside."

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

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I've just finished indexing what is one of this year's most eagerly anticipated books among historians and sociologists of religion (as well as Vatican-watchers) - 'Trads' by Stephen Cranney and Stephen Bullivant global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Hungary has signalled it will drop its long-standing opposition to Ukraine’s bid for EU membership, allowing it and Moldova to begin formal negotiations to join the bloc in the coming days, four diplomats told POLITICO.

For the first day of Pride Month, a very short and very moving tribute to Imam Muhsin Hendricks, a courageous and humble advocate for all those oppressed and outcast, and the author of the first LGBTQ+ affirming Islamic theological arguments:

I think it’s helpful to realize that worldviews- political, ideological, religious, etc- are primarily used by people to imbue events in the world with meaning, rather than explain why they happen. People can easily tolerate a lack of understanding, but no one can tolerate a lack of meaning.

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Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

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St. Jacob of Serugh (Suruç in modern Turkey; 451-521) on the love of God

U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles

Spring in Vienna. -- My favourite tulip in the Liechtensteinpark. #photography #Vienna #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Really interesting thread on South Carolina politics from a genuine expert:

The original Star Wars has to be the “best” if only bc its main themes are the precondition for the success of any following work However, just in terms is sheer quality, absolutely nothing is in even the same universe as Andor- except Rogue One

Pope Leo reading the book 'Free Under Grace', which brings together speeches, homilies, letters, and messages from his early ministry as Robert Prevost. Currently available in Italian, the book will be released in several languages in the coming months.

This article is so British it jumped through my phone and drew lines around my living room so that it could be divided into several new nation states

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

(RNS) — Thousands of people are missing in South Sudan. Church leaders are shining a light on this scourge on the second anniversary of a Catholic priest’s disappearance.

A very good exchange with Péter Magyar in Brussels today. We discussed the steps necessary to unlock EU funds earmarked for Hungary, that are frozen due to corruption and rule of law concerns.

This strikes at the very heart of what above all makes America a great nation. That we would combine the ancient virtue of hospitality with the modern cause of freedom. This was our mission! To be “an asylum for mankind” (Paine, Common Sense). And we’ve abandoned it.

TIL there's a small town in Wisconsin named after St. Gregory of Nazianzus

The peace of God, which passeth all understanding

i feel like society moved on from these too quickly

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."