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Young US men are joining Russian churches promising 'absurd levels of manliness'

created: May 24, 2025, 11:05 p.m. | updated: May 28, 2025, 5:06 a.m.

There are other videos of Father Moses McPherson - a powerfully built father of five - weightlifting to the sound of heavy metal. Father Moses tells his congregation there are two ways of serving God - being a monk or a nun, or getting married. Father Moses says Orthodoxy is "not masculine, it is just normal", while "in the West everything has become very feminised". "I don't want to go to services that feel like a Taylor Swift concert," Father Moses says. Elissa Bjeletich Davis, a former Protestant who now belongs to the Greek Orthodox Church in Austin, is a Sunday school teacher and has her own podcast.

6 months, 2 weeks ago: BBC News