Category: Blog Archive
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Antiochians Launch “Discover Orthodoxy”
The Antiochian Orthodox Church recently launched “Discover Orthodoxy,” an informational and apologetic website to explain the Orthodox faith to seekers. Topics include: Introducing Orthodoxy: Come and see! What is the Church? The Church is the Body of Christ. Who Is God? The Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Feasts and Fasts: The cycle of the Christian…
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Good Guys Wear Black: A New Website for Prospective Priests and Deacons
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | CONTACT: Fr. John A. Peck |GOOD GUYS WEAR BLACK | (928) 777-8750 | frjohnpeck@yahoo.com | goodguyswearblack.org NEW WEBSITE FOR PROSPECTIVE PRIESTS, DEACONS June 1, 2011 – Today marks the launch of a unique new website in the Orthodox Christian world: Good Guys Wear Black (http://goodguyswearblack.org). “This is a vocations website,” said…
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Wesley J. Smith: A Dark Mirror on Society
Source: The Corner The death of Jack Kevorkian by natural causes has a certain irony, but it is not surprising. His driving motive was always obsession with death. Indeed, as he described in his book Prescription Medicide, Kevorkian’s overriding purpose in his assisted-suicide campaign was pure quackery, e.g., to obtain a societal license to engage…
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An Open Letter To Orthodox Anglicans
Source: Journey to Orthodoxy Highlight: Years ago, my search for historic, English Christianity led me to read the Ecclesiastical History of the English Church by the Venerable Bede. What did I find? An early encounter between the evangelist Saint Augustine, and English king Ethelbert struck me as somehow strange: Augustine’s companions carried images of Christ,…
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Met. Hilarion: The Problem of Religious Intolerance. What Can We Do Together?
Source: Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church Highlight: At present we are experiencing a new era of persecution against Christians, which some compare to the time of the Roman emperors of the first three centuries. People in problem-free countries know nothing or do not want to know anything about it. Only…