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Met. Jonah to lead Lenten retreat
His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah will be conducting a two day lenten retreat in the Baltimore-Washington area on the topic: Three Foundations of Orthodox Spirituality – Reaction, Resentment, and Inner Stillness The retreat is centrally located in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area at the Orthodox Church of St. Matthew in Columbia, Maryland. The retreat begins Friday evening,…
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World’s oldest Christian Bible digitized
London — The surviving pages of the world’s oldest Christian Bible have been reunited – digitally. The early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus has been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years. But starting Monday, it became available for perusal on the Web at http://www.codexsinaiticus.org so scholars and…
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A Muslim Preacher Converts to Orthodoxy
HT: Notes on Arab Orthodoxy The interview was presumably conducted in English, posted in Russian here, translated to French here by Claude Lopez-Ginisty, whence the present translation. We’re speaking in London with a new Orthodox Christian who was baptized today with the name Daniel. Daniel is not a Muslim name, far from it [actually, it…
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Attn: New Yorkers. Book party for Wesley J. Smith
Attention New York readers: Wesley J. Smith, author and occassional commentator on the AOI Blog will be in New York on Thursday, March 4 to sign his new book. From First Things: First Things and Encounter Books Invite You To An Evening With Wesley J. Smith To celebrate the publication of A Rat Is a…
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Greece as Political Time Bomb
David P. Goldman posted this today on First Things’s blog First Thought. He describes the economic situation in Greece and sketches out some of the social causes and possible outcomes. In my heart I want what I read here to not be true–but I suspect my hopes are misplaced. In Christ, +Fr Gregory On Feb.…
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