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A Word for Parents
The Anti-Gnostic reports on a lecture given by Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America last night at Atlanta’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation. Asked what advice [Metropolitan Jonah] would give parish priests, he again quoted a Russian father who told parents to pray for their children ten times as much as they…
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Orthodoxy and Obama’s conscience clause
A friend sent me an email earlier today. Search Google, he said, with the terms conscience rule obama catholic bishops and conscience rule obama orthodox bishops and then compare the two. Not very impressive. (Actually, the AOI blog article on Abp. Demetrios’ awkward praise of Pres. Obama ranks first in Google, but that’s beside the…
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Halki: ‘Same old story’
Nat da Polis, in a new report in AsiaNews, quotes a “senior lecturer” from the “almost non existent Orthodox community” in Istanbul on the Halki Seminary question. The lecturer, a Greek, expects little movement from Turkish authorities toward reopening the seminary. “In short it’s the same old story,” says the lecturer. Full report follows: Despite…
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More Thoughts on Economics and the Church
This was originally posted on my own blog and then posted here in the comments section. I thought for ease of those who read and comment here I would simply repost it here for your comments. In Christ, +FrG My post on the implication for the Orthodox Church of Novak’s understanding of capitalism (for the…
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The American Orthodox ‘Historiographical Problem’
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. — Frederick Jackson Turner Here’s a new site worth a visit. The Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas has launched a new blog…
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