The Patriarch, the Environment and the Enlightenment
October 28, 2009 by Fr. Gregory Jensen · 18 Comments
His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew recently published an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal (“Our Indivisible Environment,” 26 October 2009) in which he argues that “just as God is indivisible, so too is our global environment.” He asserts that as the “molecules of water that comprise the great North Atlantic are neither European [...]
Mor Gabriel, Halki and Obama
March 8, 2009 by John Couretas · 7 Comments
A very timely story yesterday in the Wall Street Journal by Andrew Higgins about a land dispute between Syriac Orthodox monastery Mor Gabriel and Turkish authorities. Also yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, during a stop in Ankara, announced that President Obama will be visiting Turkey “in a month or so.” She said this [...]
Fr. Neuhaus’ review of ‘The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right’
January 10, 2009 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
The Wall Street Journal this week published the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus’ review of “The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right” by Jon Shields. In the review, Fr. Neuhaus gives Shields, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College, high marks for “an excruciatingly careful study, studded with the expected graphs and statistical data—but not [...]
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