On the Recent Attacks by Bishop Gregory Sully
This is a recent attack by a person with whom I have no contact, who did not ask me for a statement or clarification, and who is trying to present me in a negative light, as if I am lying about my marital status, but which has not only been a feature of my ministry, but a subject of a huge amount of my theological writing By Abp. Joseph Boyd ( Orthodox Archdiocese of America , Ukrainian Orthodox Church in East Asia , and the Ancient Church of the West ) Bishop Gregory Sully has recently circulated information about my wife and children as though my family were something I had tried to conceal. I have been married to the same woman for twenty-four years. She is the only person I have ever known intimately, and that has been exclusively within a covenantal Christian marriage; she remains the sacramental axis of my personal askesis as a Christian, a clergyman, and a theologian. We were married in an Orthodox church according to the Byzantine wedding rite, at St. Paul's Greek Orthodox ...
