Category: Blog Archive
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Benedict’s Creative Minority
Ok, I’m back. Had some stuff I had to catch up on but that’s done! Some great essays coming down the pike. Note the mention of Met. Hilarion in this piece. Also note the reference to Toynbee (a great historian) and his thesis that civilizations die from suicide, not external assault, and then read Malcolm…
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Met. Hilarion’s speech at the Nicean Club Dinner (full version)
Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations to the Annual Nicean Club Dinner (Lambeth Palace, 9 September 2010) Speech removed until a corrected version arrives. I was informed that the speech by Met. Hilarion that I posted contains some (mostly minor) errors. Since I want to…
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Saint John Chrysostom and 21st Century Christians
Taken from a lecture by Fr. Josiah Trenham and republished on Mystagogy. From Mystagogy: [The following portion of a lecture (all of which I recommend to be read) delivered by the Very Reverend Josiah Trenham in 2007 I found to be a very edifying piece on how Christians can implement at least some of the…
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Russian Metropolitan Blasts Anglican Communion’s Sexual Innovations
Hilarion praises Global South stand on marriage. Absence of heresy deplored. Our Church must sever its relations with those churches and communities that trample on the principles of Christian ethics and traditional morals. Here we uphold a firm stand based on Holy Scripture. By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org Sept. 13, 2010 In a groundbreaking address…
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Russia Profile Weekly Experts Panel: Another Attempt to Get Russia Into NATO?
For those of you interested in this type of thing, the Russia Profile site has a symposium that examines Russian’s relationship with NATO. Most of you will remember that NATO was used to declare war on Serbia (the first time America went to war with an ally; the first time American troops were placed under…