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What Did the Orthodox Missionaries Bring to the Native Alaskans?

August 21, 2018 By Fr. John Peck [edit]

Fr. Michael Oleksa is the former Dean of St. Herman Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kodiak, AK.

Fr. Michael’s words echoes what St. Justin Martyr wrote about the ancient Greek philosophers in his First Apology:

“Those who lived in accordance with the Logos are Christians, even though they were called godless, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus and others like them… So also those who lived before Christ and did not live by the Logos were ungracious and enemies of Christ, and murderers of those who lived by the Logos. But those who lived by the Logos, and those who so live now, are Christians, fearless and unperturbed.”

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