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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Guidelines for comments

    Here are the guidelines for comments folks: First, any comment that does not directly address the ideas presented in the main article won’t be posted. Second, AOI comments is not a debating forum although reasonable responses to other comments may be considered on a case by case basis. Most often however, they will not be…

  • E Pluribus Unum: One Church From Many?

    The American Orthodox Institute has published a new paper on Orthodox unity by George Michalopulos that examines the historical usage of the title “metropolitan,” the role of the metropolitan in Church administration, and the “crucial” pastoral duty defined in the Divine Liturgy as “rightly dividing the Word of [God’s] Truth.” In “E Pluribus Unum: One…

  • Obama Waffling on Armenian Genocide Declaration?

    The Los Angeles Times reports that the Obama administration “is hesitating on a promised presidential declaration that Armenians were the victims of genocide in the early 20th century, fearful of alienating Turkey when U.S. officials badly want its help.” The L. A. Times, in “Obama wavers on pledge to declare Armenian genocide,” says Obama and…

  • Ecumenical Patriarchate: American ‘Diaspora’ must submit to Mother Church

    Ecumenical Patriarchate: American ‘Diaspora’ must submit to Mother Church

    The battle is joined. Highlight: With regards to the United States, the submission to the First Throne of the Church, that is, to the Ecumenical Patriarchate is not only fitting with the American society and mentality but also it opens up the horizons of possibilities for this much-promising region, which is capable of becoming an…

  • St. Tikhon: Shine the Light

    Monachos.net, a great resource, has published a new translation by St. Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow, delivered in 1907 at the New York cathedral on the Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy. Monachos.net describes this as “the saint’s ‘farewell homily’ to his flock, before departing the United States, and contains important reflections on missionary zeal as…

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