Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Christian faith: Calvinism is back
Calvinism has always struck me as, well, psychologically austere given Calvin’s definition of predestination where man, in the end, has no real freedom. Nevertheless, for Protestants raised on the consumer Christianity that has afflicted the Protestant world the last few decades, it’s probably a bracing antidote to the search for good feelings reaches almost pathological…
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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s statement on terrorist acts at the Moscow Metro
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia made the following statement on the terrorist acts at the Moscow Metro on 29 March 2010. My heart pains over the terrorist acts at the Moscow Metro this morning. I am praying for the rest of the victims’ souls, for consolation of their near and dear,…
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Russia brings music to Constantinople on “The Three Romes” tour
They also performed at Agia Irene (St. Irene) Church Museum. (From the Russian National Orchestra website.) ++++++++++ Orthodox and Catholic churches unite with music TV-Novosti Russian spiritual music was ringing out in Istanbul last night as part of a major international project aimed at uniting the main centers of Christian culture. The project is the…
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Rod Dreher: How to govern a Church: a case study
I want to contrast the way the institutional Catholic Church is struggling to deal with its problem bishops, versus the way the Orthodox Church in America (my church) has done it recently. It shouldn’t be necessary to say this, but I probably need to: this is not an argument for why Orthodoxy is more true…
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