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I am an Orthodox blogger, chrismated into the Moscow Patriarchate and member of an OCA parish in Minneapolis. I am also a happy husband and father of two; an ex-expat of China; and a machinist and part-time English teacher based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.



I am a The Heavy Anglo Orthodox () is a blog. Its author occupies a tense and largely-unclaimed space on the Orthosphere somewhere between reaction and revolution.I am an Orthodox blogger, chrismated into the Moscow Patriarchate and member of an OCA parish in Minneapolis. I am also a happy husband and father of two; an ex-expat of China; and a machinist and part-time English teacher based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.I am a

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although my politics are largely a holdover from my Anglican/Quaker background. My loyalty belongs to the regional culture of the Upper Midwest and Plains states (including Upper Canada), but intellectually I also have Anglophile, Slavophile and Sinophile tendencies. My interests are language, history, genealogy, theology, politicalconomy and heavy metal.