Category: Blog Archive
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Catholics, Orthodox Share Secularization Concerns
The report below affirms much that is true, good, and necessary. What I cannot reconcile however, is that while the Ecumenical Patriarchate signed the decree, it also supports policies that explicitly, and in some cases, aggressively, undermine the same principles of human value they (according to this report) swore to uphold. I have in mind…
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The open society and its enemy
Source: The Spectator George Soros has donated $1 million to a campaign to legalise cannabis in California. The Guardian reports (see here for a comment): The cash infusion, one week before Californians vote on a measure that would let anyone over 21 grow and possess up to an ounce of marijuana and allow local councils…
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Eastern Europe Versus the Open Society
Source: Chronicles of Culture Magazine Excerpts from a speech to the H.L. Mencken Club, Baltimore, October 23, 2010 Two weeks ago the first “gay pride parade” was staged in Belgrade. Serbia’s “pro-European” government had been promoting the event as yet another proof that Serbia is fit to join the European Union, that is has overcome…
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Eastern Christian New Media Awards
Nominations are open best blogs or websites in all sorts of categories. Voting starts in a week.
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Patsourakos: An “icon” of Stalin is sacrilege
George Patsourakos, an AOI Observer commentator, recently posted this essay on his website Theology and Society. In a news story that shocked Christians throughout the world this week, it was revealed that Joseph Stalin — the Russian tyrant responsible for murdering millions of innocent people — was pictured on an icon at an Orthodox Church…