The Order of Deaconesses: Historical Analysis and the Quest for its Revival 

A first class and necessary discussion on this issue. Thank you brother for your continued great work on your channel

Somehow missed this in the flurry of deaconess related videos. What a great panel of guests, thanks!

I had an extended series of conversations with a cradle Orthodox woman at my church that began by mentioning Frost's book and advocated pushing altar girls, then deaconesses, and progressed to her advocating a removal of all gender specific language around the holy trinity, and for women preists and hierarchs. I held the line throughout, and forced her to think through the implications of her views- that the rendering of all distinctions between the sexes arbitrary and the changing of our language to fit the message of today would so fundamentally shift the church's theanthropology that there would be nothing to stop the rest of the advance of the LGBTQ movement in the church. She responded by admitting she wouldn't mind if the church one day ordained a trans bishop. This stuff is poison.