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AOI – The American Orthodox Institute – USA https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:25:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 Book Review: The Second Russian Revolution (1987-1991) https://www.aoiusa.org/review-the-second-russian-revolution/ https://www.aoiusa.org/review-the-second-russian-revolution/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:28:28 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12036 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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Belows is the review I wrote of Leon Aron’s new book Roads to the Temple: Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987-1991. It is a great read and I recommend it highly. It chronicles Glasnost, the period of awakening in Russia from around 1987-1991 that, Aron argues, was a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/review-the-second-russian-revolution/feed/ 22 The Soviet Story [VIDEO] https://www.aoiusa.org/8539/ https://www.aoiusa.org/8539/#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:04:10 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8539 "The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now…

WARNING: The video contains disturbing images of human suffering. Viewer discretion advised.


]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/8539/feed/ 7 Memo to Jim Wallis: Christ is not a crypto-communist/ socialist https://www.aoiusa.org/memo-to-jim-wallis-christ-is-not-a-crypto-communistsocialist/ https://www.aoiusa.org/memo-to-jim-wallis-christ-is-not-a-crypto-communistsocialist/#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:48:20 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7663 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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Anthony posted this in the comments but it is so good I am posting it here. Source: On Living Simply: The Golden Voice of John Chrysostom St. John Chrysostom: Should we look to kings and princes to put right the inequalities between rich and poor? Should we require soldiers to come and seize the rich […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/memo-to-jim-wallis-christ-is-not-a-crypto-communistsocialist/feed/ 11 Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Culture is at risk of becoming anti-culture without the Church https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-culture-is-at-risk-of-becoming-anti-culture-without-the-church/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-culture-is-at-risk-of-becoming-anti-culture-without-the-church/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:02:43 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6079 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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Brilliant! Met. Hilarion’s warning deals with what Nietzsche called the “transvaluation of values” — what his dark prophesy warned would happen in the West because “God is Dead,” by which he meant that Western culture was entering into a period where it functioned within the cultural structures shaped by Christianity but without concrete, existential communion […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-culture-is-at-risk-of-becoming-anti-culture-without-the-church/feed/ 2 Patriarch Kirill & Pope Benedict: A Tale of Two Leaders for a new Missionary Age https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:36:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5843 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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I’ve been asked to become an Orthodox columnist on Catholic.org and accepted. Below is my first essay. Regular readers will notice ideas we discussed on the AOI Observer. +++++++++++++++++ Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) NAPLES, FL. (Catholic Online) – Over four decades ago Pope John Paul II said that the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church was […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/feed/ 33 Pope Benedict’s message to Albanian Orthodox https://www.aoiusa.org/pope-benedicts-message-to-albanian-orthodox/ https://www.aoiusa.org/pope-benedicts-message-to-albanian-orthodox/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:26:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5003 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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From Zenit: Christ’s Saving Message Has Borne Fruit in Your Country VATICAN CITY, DEC. 4, 2009 — Here is the address Benedict XVI delivered today upon receiving in audience Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, who is the head of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania. * * * Your Beatitude, “Grace to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/pope-benedicts-message-to-albanian-orthodox/feed/ 34 Fr. Symeon on the Manhattan Declaration https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-symeon-on-the-manhattan-declaration/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-symeon-on-the-manhattan-declaration/#comments Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:19:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4836 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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(HT: ONet) On the one hand there are those who find it [the Manhattan Declaration] “shocking” and part of the culture war, etc. These are frightened that the document will be perceived as harsh and unloving, etc.. God forbid that anyone Christian ever stand in public for Truth. And on the other hand those that […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-symeon-on-the-manhattan-declaration/feed/ 11 The Fall of the Berlin Wall https://www.aoiusa.org/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:44:26 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4486 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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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2qq5J5A1s[/youtube] Twenty years ago today. The following is from “The Origin of Russian Communism” by Nicholas Berdyaev (published by Geoffrey Bles, 1937): Marxism is not only a doctrine of historical and economic materialism, concerned with the complete dependence of man on economics, it is also a doctrine of deliverance, of the messianic vocation of the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/feed/ 7 Russian monasticism and the legacy of Communism https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-monasticism-and-the-legacy-of-communism/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-monasticism-and-the-legacy-of-communism/#respond Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:19:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4449 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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The Zenit news service interviews Fr. Peter Mescerinov, vice-director of the Center for the Spiritual Formation of Children and Adolescents of the Moscow Patriarchate, about the “new and enduring challenges of Russian monasticism.” ZENIT: What is the reality of these [monastic] communities today? Father Mescerinov: The principal tragedy of our ecclesial life today is the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-monasticism-and-the-legacy-of-communism/feed/ 0 Russian Church: Martyrdom and Resurrection https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-church-martyrdom-and-resurrection/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-church-martyrdom-and-resurrection/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:59:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3915 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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From an article by Nadezhda Kevorkova of Russia Now, published as a supplement to the Telegraph: The Russian faith, like the Russian revolution and like life in Russia itself, never condescends to the individual. In the 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet system, the Russian Church has been rebuilt from ruins inhabited by […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-church-martyrdom-and-resurrection/feed/ 2 ‘Stalin’s Ghost Still Walks’ https://www.aoiusa.org/stalins-ghost-still-walks/ https://www.aoiusa.org/stalins-ghost-still-walks/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:51:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3233 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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Writing in History Today, Catherine Merridale examines “competing versions of Russia’s troubled past in the light of present politics.” The excerpt below from “Haunted by Stalin” discusses the decline of interest in the Soviet past, and especially the work of Memorial, the research organization dedicated to keeping the memory of Communism’s victims alive. For some […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/stalins-ghost-still-walks/feed/ 3 Archbishop Hilarion: Stalin a ‘Monster’ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-stalin-a-monster/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-stalin-a-monster/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:51:06 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3188 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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HT: ONet blog Russian archbishop’s censure of Stalin as “a monster” makes waves By Sophia Kishkovsky Tuesday, 04 August 2009 23:00 MOSCOW (ENI) -— Comments by a senior official of the Russian Orthodox Church condemning Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, accusing him of genocide, shortly before a European security forum equated the crimes of Stalin and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-stalin-a-monster/feed/ 7 Orthodox Christianity and Capitalism — Are They Compatible? https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christianity-and-capitalism-are-they-compatible/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christianity-and-capitalism-are-they-compatible/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:44:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1918 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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Kevin Allen, host of The Illumined Heart podcast on Ancient Faith Radio, interviews writer, attorney, and college professor Chris Banescu, an Orthodox Christian, about the economic, moral and spiritual issues surrounding the market economy. Kevin asks: Does the capitalist system serve “the best interests of Christians living the life of the Beatitudes?” Listen to Chris […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christianity-and-capitalism-are-they-compatible/feed/ 8 Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! https://www.aoiusa.org/christ-is-risen/ https://www.aoiusa.org/christ-is-risen/#comments Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:15:28 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1856 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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Every Pascha, I repost two stories on OrthodoxyToday.org. that tell how Orthodox prisoners in Dachau held the Paschal Liturgy during their liberation. The first, “The Souls of All are Aflame” provides historical background and detail. The second, “Pascha in Dachau” recounts the story of a prisoner who was there. Dachua was liberated during Holy Week. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/christ-is-risen/feed/ 2 Roepke was right https://www.aoiusa.org/roepke-was-right/ https://www.aoiusa.org/roepke-was-right/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:09:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=956 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 my Winter 2007 article on economic globalization for AGAIN Magazine, I quoted economist Wilhelm Roepke: Economically ignorant moralism is as objectionable as morally callous economism. Ethics and economics are two equally difficult subjects, and while the former needs discerning and expert reason, the latter cannot do without humane values. In light of all that […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/roepke-was-right/feed/ 2