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Hellenism and Byzantium
Revised, October 6, 2010, 6:40am. I don’t know why it is taking OCN all summer to release the lectures on Hellenism and Orthodoxy held at St. Vladimir’s Seminary symposium last spring, but another one was finally posted. Dr. James Skedros, the Michael G. and Anastasia Cantonis Professor of Byzantine Studies at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox…
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Speaking of hijacking the language…
(and going down the Anglican road), ELCA Lutherans are offering quite the spectacle. I don’t anticipate this church being around much longer. Source: Lutheran CORE Services receiving persons who are in same-sex sexual relationships as ELCA pastors have included attacks on the “bound consciences” of those who uphold Biblical teaching on sexual behavior. Even though…
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Orthodoxy and Homosexuality
From a new posting on Fr. Peter-Michael Preble’s blog. The past few weeks have seen the number of young people being targeted for their homosexual identity then it has in years past. Recently TV personality Ellen Degeneris, herself a lesbian, posted a video about the bullying of people who are different then the rest of…
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Wesley J. Smith – Bioethics: Creating a Culture of Death
The Fall 2010 Lecture Series at St. Tikhon’s revolves around various life issues and the first speaker in the series is Wesley Smith who is a lawyer and an award winning author as well as a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute. He is introduced by the Dean of the…
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Orthodox Priest: Thieves Hijacking the Language of the Christian Moral Tradition
That’s the title of my latest essay on Catholic Online. (Click here for the nice lead in they gave me, and here for the article). Full text below. By Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse NAPLES, FL. (Catholic Online) – In a recent Catholic Online article (Social Justice: Take Back the Term from the Thieves and Build…
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