Fr. Preble: Duties to the State from a Romanian Orthodox Church Perspective

Fr. Peter-Michael Preble has this article published recently on Ethics Daily. Fr. Peter blogs at Shepherd of Souls, and Fr. Peter-Michael Preble. He hosts the Shepherd of Souls podcast on Ancient Faith Radio. I have a Scripture reading system in which I read first from the Gospels and then from the Epistles. I read this [...]

Cardinal Pell of Australia: The Election

Finally the resistance is starting. Note the final paragraphs. Cardinal George Pell is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. Emphasis mine. By + Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, 29 August 2010 Democracy is alive and well in Australia. Democratic processes are robust and generally followed with good humour. I voted at Sydney Town Hall, [...]

Archbishop Chaput calls for resistance to intolerance of Christianity

Here is a man who understands the problem. Spisske Podhradie, Slovakia, Aug 25, 2010 / 05:48 am (CNA).- Addressing the first session of the 15th symposium for the Canon Law Association of Slovakia on Tuesday, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver called for Catholics in America and Europe to oppose the rise of a “state-encouraged atheism” [...]

Moral Myopia at Ground Zero

Source: National Review Online By Charles Krauthammer Supporters of the mosque fail to see its true significance. It’s hard to be an Obama sycophant these days. Your hero delivers a Ramadan speech roundly supporting the building of a mosque and Islamic center at Ground Zero in New York. Your heart swells and you’re moved to [...]

Chuck Colson on the Manhattan Declaration: Where do we go from here?

Peter and Helen Evans interview Chuck Colson, a drafter of the Manhattan Declaration, about what the Declaration means for the larger culture. Colson discusses the necessity of protecting the dignity of life at every stage of life, traditional marriage for the stability of society, and religious liberty which protects freedom of conscience. The purpose of [...]

Ambiguorum Blogis: The miscellaneous thoughts of Fr Michael Butler — goes live.

I always welcome the emergence of new contributions on Orthodoxy and culture by thoughtful commentators. Orthodox Christianity has much to give this country, indeed all of the Christian West, but our thinking has been underdeveloped and our contributions sparse. Much of this is due of course to historical circumstance; Orthodox Christianity is only now finding [...]

Fr. Peter Preble interviews Fr. Hans Jacobse on the Mosque at Ground Zero

Fr. Peter-Michael Preble interviewed me (more of a running conversation actually) about the building of the mosque at Ground Zero after my article was published on Catholic Online. In it I discuss some of the ideas that inform the argument I made in the article. Fr. Peter blogs at Shepherd of Souls, and Fr. Peter-Michael [...]

Unpublished paragraphs for the Orthodox audience

STOP THE PRESSES! HELLENIC VOICE PUBLISHED ARTICLE AFTER ALL! SEE: THE HELLENIC VOICE! Below are the paragraphs that I included in my article (Ground Zero is American Holy Ground. No Mosque Near Ground Zero) that was intended for an Orthodox audience. The Hellenic Voice, which has published everything else I submitted, apparently decided not to [...]

Krauthammer: Sacrilege at Ground Zero

Source: National Review Online A place is made sacred by a widespread belief that it was visited by the miraculous or the transcendent (Lourdes, the Temple Mount), by the presence there once of great nobility and sacrifice (Gettysburg), or by the blood of martyrs and the indescribable suffering of the innocent (Auschwitz). When we speak [...]

Judge Vaughn Walker, The Solomon of San Francisco

Buchanan nails it. Source: VDARE By Patrick J. Buchanan Peering at the 14th Amendment, Walker found something there the authors of the amendment never knew they put there, and even the Warren Court never found there: The states of the Union must recognize same-sex marriages as equal to traditional marriage. With his discovery, Walker declared [...]

Judging Marriage: Proposition 8 Struck Down

What is at stake: Even though his ruling isn’t surprising, his dismissal of the opinions of the people of California and five thousand-plus years of human tradition is breath-taking. Then again, inasmuch as Walker is one of the few openly gay federal judges, maybe his dismissal shouldn’t shock us, either. Let’s be clear. What’s at [...]

Orthodoxy appears more comprehensible and close to many English people

Source: Interfax Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh passed away seven years ago on August 4, 2003. He founded a unique Russian Orthodox diocese in Great Britain and united not only Russian natives, but thousands of English believers. Even Prince Charles came to his church services. The number of parishioners is still growing as new Russian [...]

Acton Institute: Alinsky for Dummies

For those who don’t know how Saul Alinsky influenced some of our current political and cultural leaders, listen to this primer on Alinsky held a few months back at the Acton Institute. Alinsky’s methodology came of age in the 1960′s and 1970′s and has been institutionalized especially in the academy and the cultural left where [...]

Orthodoxy and Homosexuality, Parts One and Two

Source: Ancient Faith Radio Orthodoxy and Homosexuality, Part One In this podcast Steve references an article he wrote for AGAIN Magazine on the Orthodox Church and same sex attraction. In it he shares the results of several interviews with Orthodox men and women who shared their backgrounds and experiences as homosexuals before and after becoming [...]

A secular argument against gay marriage

From: Gay Marriage — and Marriage by Sam Shulman. To me, what is at stake in this debate is not only the potential unhappiness of children, grave as that is; it is our ability to maintain the most basic components of our humanity. I believe, in fact, that we are at an “Antigone moment.” Some [...]

A grand slam and no hitter — all in the same game!

I went to see the Tampa Bay Rays today, my first ball game in a very long time. Great game. Pitcher Matt Garza threw a no hitter, and Matt Joyce hit a grand slam. Nice. Sorry Detroit fans. Garza Pitches Fifth No-Hitter of Season in First for Tampa Bay

Tulsa World: Speaker didn’t reflect the church’s views

Source: Tulsa World By: GEORGE C. MICHALOPULOS Recently, the Tulsa Interfaith Council sponsored an appearance by Frank Schaeffer. I had the pleasure of attending one of Frank’s lectures. As a fellow Orthodox Christian it’s always good to see Frank. Whether you agree with him or not, you know you’re in for a good and lively [...]

Mattingly: Shocking words to the Presbyterians

Source: The Republic Anyone who attends one of the national church assemblies that dot the calendar every summer knows that they are highly ritualized affairs. Officers will be elected. Political issues will be discussed. Lofty resolutions will be passed. At least one long business session will include a proposal about clergy benefits and salaries. [...] [...]

Finding the Balance: Privacy and the Civil Society

Fr. Gregory Jensen, contributing editor to AOI blog and editor of Koinonia blog recently published this essay on the Acton Institute website. Privacy in our culture has come to serve not a deepening of community life but an ever deeper sense of social isolation.  Even otherwise laudable behavior is increasingly justified not by the goodness [...]

Mattingly on Fr. Siarhei Hardun, the Presbyterian Assembly, and the press

Journalist Terry Mattingly edits the blog “Get Religion” which examines religion in the media. The blog is a great read and worth a (repeating) look. A few excepts from Mattingly’s commentary on Fr. Hardun’s recent comments at the Presbyterian assembly (see: MINNEAPOLIS: Presbyterian gay measures criticized by visiting (Orthodox) priest): As you would expect, the [...]

MINNEAPOLIS: Presbyterian gay measures criticized by visiting (Orthodox) priest

HT: Virtue Online July 09, 2010 An Orthodox Church theologian who was invited to greet the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has criticized its approval of non-celibate gay and lesbian clergy. The Reverend Siarhei Hardun of Belarus said that vote and efforts to approve gay marriage looked to him like an attempt to [...]

Founding an Orthodox Liberal Arts and Sciences College

Kevin Allen interviews Dr. Frank Papatheofanis, President of the new St. Katherine College, about what it takes to start an Orthodox liberal arts and sciences college. Listen here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Freedom of religion devolves to an “anorexic freedom of worship”

Chuck Colson sounds the alarm about a shift in US policy first noticed by The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in its 2010 annual report. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton replaced the term “freedom of religion” with “freedom of worship” in a December, 2009 speech at Georgetown University. President Obama first used “freedom of [...]

Praying for Christopher Hitchens

George Michalopulos sent this piece along that offers a prayer for Christopher Hitchens, one of the more well known “New Atheists.” I’m not a Hitchens basher although I’m a Hitchens critic, (i.e.: How can anyone really believe that Troskyite Marxism is defensible?). I’ve listened to some of the debates between Hitchens and Dinesh D’Souza and, [...]

HuffPo Writer Also Wants to Eradicate Limbaugh, Beck, and O’Reilly

I wanted to give Frank Schaeffer the benefit of the doubt and have been patient with his forays into the senseless (yes, bereft of good sense) moral posturing of the left thinking that he might moderate after he saw that the best he could hope for was a paternalistic tolerance a step or two above [...]

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