tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938330517236138280.post1236087748338361075..comments2023-11-05T07:23:49.530-05:00Comments on Vox clamanti: Betrayal by CubeV and Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13065509512912860551noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938330517236138280.post-4079692300958681452009-02-08T20:45:00.000-05:002009-02-08T20:45:00.000-05:00Hopefully the "mind of the Church" will ...Hopefully the "mind of the Church" will take care of this. If L&L gets a few pointed letters about it they might yank it. If they don't and it doesn't sell, it won't get produced any longer. God help us if it does sell...sigh.Steve Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04319784922747041297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938330517236138280.post-61134430092117398692009-02-07T11:39:00.000-05:002009-02-07T11:39:00.000-05:00I was scrolling down orrologion the other day and ...I was scrolling down orrologion the other day and saw this and was so disgusted (not at Christopher Orr, but at the image - I suppose it is good that Christopher brought it to public attention so that the matter could be addressed with appropriate disdain) I had to get up and walk away from the computer. Ugh.Ochlophobist https://www.blogger.com/profile/13751003558600087713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938330517236138280.post-34432908891846362412009-02-07T01:58:00.000-05:002009-02-07T01:58:00.000-05:00The author at Orrologion identified the vendors of...The author at Orrologion identified the vendors of the cube as Light & Life Publishing and St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.<BR/><BR/>The former publishing house, though the company sells many good books, is notorious for its irreverent treatment of icons. It sells icon buttons, icon magnets, icon shirts, &c. This is part of the same philosophy that leads to an icon Rubik's cube.<BR/><BR/>I had a shrewd suspicion that this was their item when I posted. I do not get their catalogue anymore precisely because their products tend to get me hot under the collar.<BR/><BR/>As for the latter, that's a bit of a surprise.<BR/><BR/>In any case, what I expect is happening is that the people who manufacture, market, and sell these products are primarily merchants. They have a comfort level with icons without understanding their theological underpinning, and the combination of the two has led them to a certain recklessness.<BR/><BR/>I trust that this isn't going to be the future of American Orthodoxy. Just an anomaly on the road.<BR/><BR/>- V.V and Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13065509512912860551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3938330517236138280.post-24927624896722120822009-02-06T09:40:00.000-05:002009-02-06T09:40:00.000-05:00Wow - I wouldn't even be comfortable owning one of...Wow - I wouldn't even be comfortable owning one of those. <BR/><BR/>It reminds me of what we have been doing in the last few decades in the Protestant Church: piggy banks that read 'Jesus saves' and bumper stickers that read 'honk if you love Jesus'... etc. And that which is holy is treated as familiar and even profane. <BR/><BR/>In the Protestant Church we have all but lost are sense of awe and wonder and reverence in the house of God - we don't have a sense of the holy anymore. <BR/><BR/>The popularity of 'The Shack' is proof of the depths to which we have descended - I only hope that the 'Orthocube' is not a sign of things to come in the Orthodox Church. May God have mercy on us all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com