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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 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:50:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/james-taranto-common-sense-is-to-be-avoided-just-because-it-is-common/ https://www.aoiusa.org/james-taranto-common-sense-is-to-be-avoided-just-because-it-is-common/#comments Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:50:25 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7592 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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James Taranto in Oikophobia: Why the liberal elite finds Americans revolting (from the Wall Street Journal, available for seven days only) discusses the cultural divide made evident by the Ground Zero Mosque debate and what it reveals about America’s self-appointed elites. Read Besieged liberals resort to their last refuge: the bigotry charge by Charles Krauthammer […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/james-taranto-common-sense-is-to-be-avoided-just-because-it-is-common/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-chad-hatfield-the-manhattan-declaration/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-chad-hatfield-the-manhattan-declaration/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:47:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5902 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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Ancient Faith Radio Fr. Chad Hatfield, discusses The Manhattan Declaration, “a call of Christian conscience” that he helped produce, and defends Orthodox participation in such cultural manifestos. Listen here:]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-chad-hatfield-the-manhattan-declaration/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/pentecost-lincoln-and-the-american-experiment/ https://www.aoiusa.org/pentecost-lincoln-and-the-american-experiment/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:25:35 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2481 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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One of the things that interests me a great deal is the relationship between the Tradition of the Orthodox Church and the founding political philosophy of the American experiment. At the risk of appearing overly critical, or even dismissive, I think the failure of Orthodoxy in America is our not having engaged theologically and critically […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/pentecost-lincoln-and-the-american-experiment/feed/ 28 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenicism-in-the-trenches/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenicism-in-the-trenches/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:49:58 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2474 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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Two National Rabbinic Groups Issue Religious Ban on Voting for Pro-Homosexual Agenda Politicians; Call on Pope and other Denominations to Follow Suit BROOKLYN, NY, May 27 /Christian Newswire/ — In light of recent developments in the ongoing push to legislate a Federal Hate Crimes Bill in Congress and same gender marriage legislation in New York […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenicism-in-the-trenches/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/keep-the-human-in-humane/ https://www.aoiusa.org/keep-the-human-in-humane/#respond Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:35:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2011 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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Wesley Smith, occasional commentator on AOI blog published the is article on To the Source. Visit Smith’s blog Second Hand Smoke. When Aldous Huxley wrote his prophetic 1932 novel Brave New World, he envisioned a dystopian future in which mankind would become, in the words of bioethicist Leon Kass, “so dehumanized that he doesn’t even […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/keep-the-human-in-humane/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-god-called-earth/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-god-called-earth/#respond Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:40:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2005 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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Couples who refuse to have children in order to protect the environment, says Steve Robinson, “reject religion and dogma, (yet) their devotion to the earth is indeed a religious devotion very similar to the ancient pagans.” In fact, the “eco-fundamentalists has a version of the prosperity gospel… we ‘serve the earth god,’ name it and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-god-called-earth/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-orthodox-advocate-for-human-%e2%80%9cexceptionalism%e2%80%9d/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-orthodox-advocate-for-human-%e2%80%9cexceptionalism%e2%80%9d/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:08:41 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1443 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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Our culture is at a crossroad about the value of human life, argues author and human rights activist Wesley J. Smith in an interview with Kevin Allen on the “Illumined Heart” podcast (Ancient Faith Radio). Do we value human life simply because it is human, or do we value it based on notions and definitions […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wesley-j-smith-orthodox-advocate-for-human-%e2%80%9cexceptionalism%e2%80%9d/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-and-moral-imagination/ https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-and-moral-imagination/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:26:35 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=870 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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Newly elected President Obama, writes John Couretas, Executive Director of AOI in his essay “Obama and the Moral Imagination” frequently makes use of the phrase “common story.” This phrase “may sound strange to the ears. But it is impossible to understand the new president unless his brilliant use of narrative is first grasped,” Couretas says. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-and-moral-imagination/feed/ 30 https://www.aoiusa.org/culture-wars-fr-jacobse-on-ancient-faith-radio/ https://www.aoiusa.org/culture-wars-fr-jacobse-on-ancient-faith-radio/#comments Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:47:36 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=854 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 Ancient Faith Radio’s Illumined Heart program, interviews AOI President Fr. Hans Jacobse for a fascinating discussion on “The Culture War and Orthodox Christianity.” Fr. Hans talks about the need for Eastern Orthodox Christians to engage in the moral and social debates — call them Culture Wars if you will — that […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/culture-wars-fr-jacobse-on-ancient-faith-radio/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-richard-john-neuhaus-may-his-memory-be-eternal/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-richard-john-neuhaus-may-his-memory-be-eternal/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:46:04 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=812 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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Roman Catholic priest Fr. Richard John Neuhas died yesterday after a protracted battle with cancer. Anyone familiar with Christianity in the public square will recognize Fr. Neuhaus as one of the first to sound the alarm that a public square stripped of religious values would lead to a culture stripped of benevolent morality. In his […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-richard-john-neuhaus-may-his-memory-be-eternal/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-culture-wars-2008/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-culture-wars-2008/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:01:39 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=226 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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Terry Mattingly looks at the most recent battles, from the left and the right: If you could erase one moment from Sen. Barack Obama’s White House campaign, which would you choose? That’s an easy question for evangelicals, Catholics and other religious believers who back Obama. Most would happily erase all evidence of his speech last […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-culture-wars-2008/feed/ 0