Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Catholic Online: Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America Suddenly Resigns His Office: Why?
Unbeknownst to most Orthodox, Met. Jonah was the voice of Orthodoxy in the other Christian communions. His words reached into Baptist meetings, Episcopal assemblies, even the Vatican. He traveled these halls effortlessly because he held to the simple teaching of the Gospel but in the fullness of the Orthodox moral tradition. That enabled him to…
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Chicago Tribune: Chicago Native Quits as Leader of American Orthodox Church
Source: Chicago Tribune | By Manya A. Brachear The Chicago native elected to the helm of the Orthodox Church in America resigned over the weekend, saying in a letter that he has “neither the personality nor the temperament” to lead the church. […] Elected in late 2008 to lead one of several branches of Orthodox…
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Get Religion: Covering Warfare in a Byzantine Maze – Literally
Terry Mattingly’s advice for journalists about the coup in the OCA. A key quote: Of course, it is “politics” when an Orthodox leader defends the church’s doctrines in public. It is not “politics” when liberal activists inside the church work to silence the voice of the church, while quietly lobbying in seminaries and elsewhere to…
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Russian Warns on Demonic Roots of Socialism
Source: Acton Institute | By John Couretas In Rome to address a conference sponsored by the Dignitatis Humanae Institute (Institute for Human Dignity) on June 29, Russian pro-life campaigner Alexey Komov expressed amazement for the support that socialism gets in some quarters in the West even though it has “never worked in world history.” In…
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Dangerous Flirting: Russia Wonders Why West Is Enamoured With Socialism
Highlights: Alexey Komov – Russia’s representative to the World Congress of Families The traditional nuclear family is a particular enemy of socialism…because it is the basic institution that preserves values and passes them on to the next generation. “The state, if it wants to dominate life and the individual from birth to death, needs to…
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