Tag: Culture
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Christians for a Sustainable Economy Challenge Jim Wallis and “Progressive Christians”
In response to Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourner’s Magazine and leader of the Christian wing of Progressive activism, several conservative Christians gathered recently to form the Christians for a Sustainable Economy (CASE). We intend to counter what we see as the unjustified and irresponsible appropriation of the authority and vocabulary of the Christian moral tradition…
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Met. Jonah: Encyclical on Marriage and the Moral Limits of Human Sexuality
July 28, 201 Beloved Fathers, brothers and sisters in Christ, If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus…
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Rev. Robert J. Sirico: The Church as the Bride of Caesar
Rev. Robert J. Sirico, president of the Acton Institute criticizes Rev. Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourner’s Magazine. Wallis, the “self-appointed chaplain to the Democratic National Committee” as Sirico calls him, was recently revealed to be taking money from George Soros, a charge he denied at first but was finally forced to confirm as more…
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Maggie Gallagher: The Chilling of Our First Amendment Rights
I am out of town all week attending a conference in Bozeman, Montana. That’s the reason updates have been infrequent. Source: National Review Online | Maggie Gallagher The First Amendment is more than a legal guarantee. It is a culture — a key American value — which holds that in a decent and free society,…
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Fr. Thomas Hopko: The Homosexual Christian
Source: OrthodoxyToday.org Many gay men and lesbians claim that the Christian faith is the guiding rule of their lives. Some of them hold that their sexual orientation is given by God, that it is good, and that there is nothing wrong or sinful with their homosexual activities. These persons say that the Bible and Church…