Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Fr. Hans Jacobse: When God Speaks and We Obey, Good Things Happen
Yesterday (Saturday) was a good day. I got a call late Friday evening that one of my parishioners was in the hospital. I decided to visit him Saturday morning and after arriving at the hospital discovered his surgery was moved up and I missed him. I left him a note and decide to visit him…
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Bp. Nicholas DiMarzio: Catholic Church Must Influence Marriage Debate
So far the only Orthodox bishops offering more than pro-forma defenses of the moral tradition are Met. Job and Bp. Michael of the OCA. Below is an example of how moral authority is rightly exercised. Roman Catholic Bp. Nicholas DiMarzio offers a very reasoned and accessible analysis and defense of the major points in the…
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George Weigel. No Homophobia: A Reminder About the Totalitarian Temptation
Highlight: “Americans will say, “It can’t happen here.” But it can, and it may. Before the ink was dry on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s signature on New York’s new marriage law, the New York Times published an editorial decrying the “religious exemptions” that had been written into the marriage law at the last moment. Those exemptions…
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Sergey Khudiev: Let Your Yea Be Yea and Your Nay Be Nay
Source: Pavmir Translated from Russian by Fr. Andrew Phillips. The article by Archpriest Robert Arida ‘Response To Myself is of interest, but not so much because it shows a certain approach, which is above all characteristic of contemporary liberal Protestantism. Convinced atheists, Muslims and Christians of various confessions have something in common – they all…
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Solzhenitsyn: Men Have Forgotten God
Over at Voice Crying in the Wilderness, Chris Banescu reminds us not to forget Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s penetrating analysis into the decline of Western Culture. Solzhenitsyn’s conscience was forged in the crucible of suffering under the Soviet Communists. It was in the Gulag’s where he received the critical insight that the line between good and evil…
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