Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Conservative Moment
The irony is isn’t lost on me as as I read the Arizona Republic in and Arizona Starbucks this morning (free wi-fi), ground zero for many of the issues Americans are deciding on today. Thinking back I remember see Jimmy Carter in Eugene, Oregon on afternoon quite by accident (my last vote as a Democrat)…
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Sporadic postings this week
I’m flying to Phoenix, Arizona in about four hours to give a retreat on culture and the Church later this week to the Arizona Orthodox clergy. Updates will be sporadic and I will check in when I can. I’ll turn the presentation into a paper and post it when I get back. 11:03 am. Sitting…
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Bob Hosken news
I always liked reading computer magazines and still do. In the late 1980’s I heard of this thing called the internet, was intrigued by it and went out and bought a 9600 baud modem. A friend had given me a computer, Windows based in the days before VGA was even a standard (my first was…
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The Episcopal Assembly: Hopes and Realities
HT: St. Andrews Orthodox Forum By Fr. John Erickson Orthodox Christian Laity Annual Meeting Salt Lake City, Utah October 15-16, 2010 In June 2009 representatives of the fourteen universally recognized Orthodox churches gathered at the Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambésy, near Geneva, Switzerland. This Fourth Preconciliar Commission meeting issued an official decision concerning…
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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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