re: Young U.S. Men Joining Russian Churches Promising "Absurd Levels of Manliness"

In a YouTube video, a priest is championing a form of virile, unapologetic masculinity.

Skinny jeans, crossing your legs, using an iron, shaping your eyebrows, and even eating soup are among the things he derides as too feminine.

so that's a yes for you on skinny jeans and plucking your eyebrows?

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That's a part of the problem.

One side picked rituals and the other side picked preaching and in some ways made them idols. The Church needs them both.

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Our modern America culture needs to add the underlying concept being offered here - manliness, toughness, devotion to family, following gender roles that have stood for all human history

1- Young men are starving for mentors and role models. Every man must assert himself against the feminine in some way starting with the difficult step of breaking away from his mother. Because so many young men live with single mothers, they have no familial support from a father, so breaking away from the feminine sphere can seem like they’re completely on their own on the other side.

2- The dearth of men’s spaces (destroyed by feminism) creates a void as well. The young man, asserting himself and breaking from the feminine sphere, has nowhere to go to belong to a group where he can just be a man separated from the presence of women.

3- We live in a spiritually degenerate age where all forms of religion and spirituality are criticized, made fun of, and discouraged. No wonder young men and fathers are thirsting for something that helps them find their place in the universe and seek a way to tap into a power greater than themselves. I say, who cares how they get in the door? The only other option that seems to value masculinity is Islam and so many of their sects are nothing more than anti-western death cults who treat women like they don’t exist.

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Its described like that to smear Orthodoxy, since the media sees it as tied to Russia.

Orthodoxy will bring out masculine virtues in men and feminine virtues in women, but not in the twisted way that the article intends to mislead

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Sometimes Columbo is needed to clear up some shite that should be obvious but apparently isn't.

Isn't this from the BBC? I think I remember that but I am not going back to look.

I would trust this church (and I am in no way religious nor seeking) wayyyyyyyyyyy more than the BBC.

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The Didache and other early writings display a simple worship within the Church.

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Interesting you reference the Didache and worship. I think you need to read the entire thing - it’s short. The Didache EXPLICITLY lays out the Holy Mysteries that Orthodox observe faithfully, including Baptism, Eucharist, prayer, fasting, and anointing with oil.

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Most if not all of the other elements of worship it provides are adhered to by other churches

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What “churches” do identify as believing AND practicing what the Didache instructed re: the Eucharist?

I’ll reference just one line from the Didache, “On the Lord’s day, when you have been gathered together, break bread and celebrate the Eucharist”. Only two jurisdictions celebrate the Eucharist every Lord’s Day…Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics.

As you can see, this is just one teaching and tradition the Orthodox have never diverted from yet all of Protestantism has.

The definition of “manliness” is pretty vague…
It has little or nothing to do with political philosophy or, for that matter, religion…

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It has little or nothing to do with political philosophy or, for that matter, religion

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It certainly has no union with Progressivism which describes masculinity as toxic.

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What “churches” do identify as believing AND practicing what the Didache instructed re: the Eucharist?

I’ll reference just one line from the Didache, “On the Lord’s day, when you have been gathered together, break bread and celebrate the Eucharist”. Only two jurisdictions celebrate the Eucharist every Lord’s Day…Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics.

As you can see, this is just one teaching and tradition the Orthodox have never diverted from yet all of Protestantism has.

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Many Reformed and Presbyterian churches observe the Eucharist every Lord’s Day.

Reading through the Didache illustrates that no denomination does everything written in there with exactness, however it provides interesting insight into at least one example of early worship. I only mentioned it because the Orthodox and Catholic Churches have created a lot of elaboration in their worship that go beyond the simplicity of worship described in that document.