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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:43:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/religion-and-economics-a-review-of-aei%e2%80%99s-common-sense-concept-series/ https://www.aoiusa.org/religion-and-economics-a-review-of-aei%e2%80%99s-common-sense-concept-series/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:18:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9911 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Over the last several years I find myself more and more being drawn more into conversation about religion—specifically, Orthodox Christianity—and economics. Originally, my interest in the economic side of the conversation was minimal.  Embarrassing though it is to say now, I only took one economics class in college and while I got a “B” I […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/religion-and-economics-a-review-of-aei%e2%80%99s-common-sense-concept-series/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-ground-zero-churchmosque/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-ground-zero-churchmosque/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:15:53 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7476 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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The Ground Zero Church/Mosque controversy has not been at the center of my attention.  Shame on me maybe but there you go. Let the mosque be built where ever the Muslim community can purchase land; it is their right under the Constitution. It is also the right of those who disagree to move first and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-ground-zero-churchmosque/feed/ 63 https://www.aoiusa.org/st-katherine-college-orthodox-undergraduate-education/ https://www.aoiusa.org/st-katherine-college-orthodox-undergraduate-education/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:19:45 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7035 https://www.aoiusa.org/st-katherine-college-orthodox-undergraduate-education/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/how-are-we-to-respond-to-clergy-sexual-misconduct/ https://www.aoiusa.org/how-are-we-to-respond-to-clergy-sexual-misconduct/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:30:12 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6499 https://www.aoiusa.org/how-are-we-to-respond-to-clergy-sexual-misconduct/feed/ 80 https://www.aoiusa.org/looking-at-the-numbers-clergy-sexual-misconduct/ https://www.aoiusa.org/looking-at-the-numbers-clergy-sexual-misconduct/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 01:52:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6447 https://www.aoiusa.org/looking-at-the-numbers-clergy-sexual-misconduct/feed/ 24 https://www.aoiusa.org/as-we-move-towards-unity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/as-we-move-towards-unity/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:00:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6364 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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The Crumbling of America and the American Orthodox Church The real institutional danger facing Orthodoxy in American arises less from malfeasance and more from reasonably well-intentioned individuals making decisions without a sense of their own limits and the frailty of the Church as a social institution. On Holy Saturday, Peggy Noonan published an interesting and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/as-we-move-towards-unity/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/greece-as-political-time-bomb/ https://www.aoiusa.org/greece-as-political-time-bomb/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:28:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5972 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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David P. Goldman posted this today on First Things’s blog First Thought.  He describes the economic situation in Greece and sketches out some of the social causes and possible outcomes.  In my heart I want what I read here to not be true–but I suspect my hopes are misplaced. In Christ, +Fr Gregory On Feb. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/greece-as-political-time-bomb/feed/ 52 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-rather-less-than-new-kind-of-christianity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-rather-less-than-new-kind-of-christianity/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:05:06 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5906 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Here’s my latest review for the Oooze. You can find this review and others here. The critiques I’ve read of Brian McLaren’s new book A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith condemn it as heretical. Key to this judgment is that they all evaluate the book based on a canon […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-rather-less-than-new-kind-of-christianity/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-natural-law-theory/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-natural-law-theory/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:13:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5860 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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As some have argued here, the Church’s witness requires her to clearly articulate her anthropological vision.  The challenges that face both the Church and the larger society flow from competing visions of what it means to be human. The articulation of an Orthodox understanding of the human person is central to our moral witness in […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-natural-law-theory/feed/ 10 https://www.aoiusa.org/fundamentalism-its-not-just-for-right-wing-christians-anymore/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fundamentalism-its-not-just-for-right-wing-christians-anymore/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:49:22 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5855 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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On the Acton Institute’s PowerBlog, John Couretas has a good post (Got a feelin’ of Eco-Justice?) response to “the cascading daily disclosures of Climategate . . . global warming alarmist operating within the progressive/liberal precincts of churches and their activist organizations” have taken to dismissing science and playing ” the theology card!” After reading what […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fundamentalism-its-not-just-for-right-wing-christians-anymore/feed/ 28 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-thought-experiment/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-thought-experiment/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:17:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5823 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Let me offer you a thought experiment. Yesterday on the Orthodox Church in America’s website there was an interesting press release recounting a “discussion between members of the Holy Synod of Bishops [of the OCA] and a number of congressmen during a late-January 2010 meeting in the US capital” (OCA Holy Synod members share human […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-thought-experiment/feed/ 15 https://www.aoiusa.org/bare-ruined-choirs/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bare-ruined-choirs/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:14:32 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5821 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Soon after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, the roof of St. Andronikos church in Kythrea caved in and fell into its sanctuary. No one came by to clear the rubble, so there’s a heap of ruins on the ground covered with tangled greenery. From where I stand, on top of that heap, I […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bare-ruined-choirs/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-witness-to-the-environmental-movement/ https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-witness-to-the-environmental-movement/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:08:32 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5113 https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-witness-to-the-environmental-movement/feed/ 40 https://www.aoiusa.org/thomistic-analysis-of-pluralism-and-totalitarianism/ https://www.aoiusa.org/thomistic-analysis-of-pluralism-and-totalitarianism/#respond Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:40:19 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5043 https://www.aoiusa.org/thomistic-analysis-of-pluralism-and-totalitarianism/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/politics-polemics-and-reconcilation/ https://www.aoiusa.org/politics-polemics-and-reconcilation/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:15:07 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4578 https://www.aoiusa.org/politics-polemics-and-reconcilation/feed/ 3