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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:51:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/deconstructing-an-internal-contradiction-in-the-goa/ https://www.aoiusa.org/deconstructing-an-internal-contradiction-in-the-goa/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:16:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11482 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Andrew Estocin asks: Father JJ, how do you see this internal contradiction playing out with regards to the riots and unrest in Greece? The GOA has never addressed the moral and social underpinnings of these problems. Is the GOA so captive to the fantasy narrative of the Greek Community in America that it is unable […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/deconstructing-an-internal-contradiction-in-the-goa/feed/ 20 https://www.aoiusa.org/ligonier-1994-a-new-era-has-begun/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ligonier-1994-a-new-era-has-begun/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:29:10 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3364 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Watch and listen as American Orthodox metropolitans and bishops make a case for administrative unity — 15 years ago. The Ligonier Meeting was a gathering of twenty-eight or twenty-nine Orthodox Christian hierarchs in North America, specifically those affiliated with SCOBA, held Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 1994, at Antiochian Village in Ligonier, Pa. In Part […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ligonier-1994-a-new-era-has-begun/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/our-freedom-never-fully-realized/ https://www.aoiusa.org/our-freedom-never-fully-realized/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:08:05 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2453 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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In 1981, the Very Rev. Leonidas C. Contos delivered a lecture titled “2001: The Church in Crisis.” Fr. Contos said the title was chosen because the American Orthodox Church had been in a crisis “for a very long time” and he wanted to fix a reference point for speculations on what the Church’s situation might […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/our-freedom-never-fully-realized/feed/ 6 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jensen-where-is-the-leadership/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jensen-where-is-the-leadership/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 21:37:23 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2212 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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On his blog Koinonia, Fr. Gregory Jensen responds to the Holy Cross faculty letter which, he says, “reflects no serious criticism of the failures of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to provide effective leadership either in the United States much less world wide.” Excerpt: In my view, I think that the leadership of the Ecumenical Throne and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jensen-where-is-the-leadership/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hopko-a-spiritual-springtime-for-american-orthodoxy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hopko-a-spiritual-springtime-for-american-orthodoxy/#respond Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:24:48 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=255 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Fr. Thomas Hopko, an advisor to AOI, delivered an address in late September for the 40th Anniversary of the Consecration of the Chapel at the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration, a monastery for women in Ellwood City, Pa. Fr. Tom observes that while a “sprinkling” of Orthodox Christians in academic circles have been known to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hopko-a-spiritual-springtime-for-american-orthodoxy/feed/ 0