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Fr. Gregory Jenson: The Orthodox Church and Civil Society
Source: Koinonia Much like the Catholic Church, Mainline Protestant denominations and Evangelical Christians, the Orthodox Church is struggle to decide whether or not Christ has called us to take an active or a passive role in the world. By his example, Metropolitan Jonah has said we should be active–even proactive–while his critics, either out of…
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A Different Kind of Gay Marriage
This is very interesting. Does it really work? Would it work for Christians? Is it the right way to approach the question? Source: Hareetz.com | HT: Cranach: The Blog of Veith Ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel have come up with an acceptable form of gay marriage: gay men marry lesbians. Rabbis from the religious Zionist community…
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Touchstone. Courage and Conversion: An Interview with Hadley Arkes
I read this article yesterday in Touchstone Magazine and was glad to find that it is featured this month on their website (I was going to recommend it today). Particularly encouraging is Arkes’ conviction, which I also share, that we can find a way out of our present cultural morass. I’m not a fatalist despite…
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WAPO: Metropolitan Jonah goes to Washington
Source: Washington Post | Julia Duin | Sunday, March 20, 11:13 AM They appeared at the edge of the crowd on the Mall, a group of men seemingly out of a distant century. Their heads were crowned with klobuks, the distinctive headgear of Orthodox clergy. Sporting black cassocks and untrimmed gray beards, with golden icons…
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Rod Dreher: What’s So Appealing About Orthodoxy?
Source: Washington Post I came to Orthodoxy in 2006, a broken man. I had been a devoutly observant and convinced Roman Catholic for years, but had my faith shattered in large part by what I had learned as a reporter covering the sex abuse scandal. It had been my assumption that my theological convictions would…
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