Giacomo Sanfilippo is an Orthodox Christian of Ukrainian and Lemko descent on his mother’s side, founding editor of the world’s most popular independent Orthodox blog, and Ph.D. candidate in Theological Studies at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. He is writing a doctoral thesis entitled “Conjugal Friendship and the Sacrament of Love: Father Pavel Florensky’s Orthodox Theology of Same-Sex Love.” See his previous articles for the Kyiv Post here, and follow him on Twitter @GiacoSanfilippo.