Tag: David C. Ford

The Power of Sexual Purity

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Public Orthodoxy

May 20, 2017

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Church and Modern Society, Ethics, OTSA Faith and Public Life

David C. Ford, Marriage and Sexuality, Mary Ford

by David C. Ford and Mary Ford In this modern day and age, when sexual promiscuity – i.e., any sexual relations outside marriage – abounds all around us, why would anyone choose to live in sexual purity? How could refraining from all sexual relations outside of marriage ever be more fulfilling, more satisfying, than having […]
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Sexual Purity and the Vocation of Marriage

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Public Orthodoxy

May 3, 2016

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Ethics, OTSA Special Project on the Holy and Great Council

Alf Kentigern Siewers, David C. Ford, Holy and Great Council, Marriage, Mary Ford, Philip LeMasters, Philip Mamalakis, Sexual Ethics

by David C. Ford, Mary Ford, Rev. Dr. Philip LeMasters, Philip Mamalakis, and Alf Kentigern Siewers “The sacred nature of the God-established union and its lofty spiritual content explain the Apostle’s affirmation in Heb. 13:4. That is why the Orthodox Church condemned any defilement of its purity (Eph. 5:2-5, 1 Thes. 4:4, Heb. 13:4ff)” (Chambesy […]
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