Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Podcast: The Animal Rights Movement from an Orthodox perspective
Human exceptionalism advocate and author Wesley J. Smith speaks with host Kevin Allen about the animal rights-animal liberation movement and its insistence on the “moral equivalence” between animals and humans! How does this compare with Orthodox teachings about the “brotherhood” of humans, animals and inanimate nature (St Gregory Palamas)? Listen and find out ! Listen…
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The times, they are a changin
ROCOR Metropolitan, bishops, and clergy visit St. Tikhon’s Monastery SOUTH CANAAN, PA [OCA] — History was made on Tuesday, March 2, 2010, as His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, visited Saint Tikhon’s Monastery here. Accompanying Metropolitan Hilarion were His Grace, Bishop Jerome of Manhattan; His Grace, Bishop…
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First Episcopal Assembly is called
It’s really the second. The first was Ligonier. ++++++++++++++++++++ The 65 Orthodox Bishops in the Americas received their invitations to attend the first Episcopal Assembly to be held under the new Chambesy agreement last week. Writing to all as the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Archbishop Demetrios stated: “Therefore, in order to comment the process…
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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Culture is at risk of becoming anti-culture without the Church
Brilliant! Met. Hilarion’s warning deals with what Nietzsche called the “transvaluation of values” — what his dark prophesy warned would happen in the West because “God is Dead,” by which he meant that Western culture was entering into a period where it functioned within the cultural structures shaped by Christianity but without concrete, existential communion…
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