Tag: Culture
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Chris Banescu: To Be or Not to Be…Created
Chris Banescu recently launched a new blog: The Voice Crying in the Wilderness. Chris takes on a lot of sacred cows, especially from the cultural left, and shows how paltry the thinking often is behind the precepts that many people take as self-evidently true. Call it casting down the cultural idols, the assumptions that shape…
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Bp. Michael (OCA) Defends Traditional Marriage
The letter by Bishop Michael (Orthodox Church in America) defending traditional marriage responds to the legislation passed in New York allowing same-sex marriage. The bill contained religious exemptions, but if these will hold up is anyone’s guess (probably not). Still, the bill should not have been passed at all. Does anyone know if the GOA…
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Abp. Chaput: America Becoming ‘Much Less Friendly’ to Religious Freedom
Although written for a Catholic audience, the ideas expressed by Archbishop Chaput apply to Christians across the board. Take special care reading the section “A Less Friendly America” where Abp. Chaput warns us the coming hostility towards religion and how anti-religionists will use the power of the state to diminish the cultural influence of Christianity.…
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Patriarch Kirill: European Population Will Die if it Fails to Come Back to its Spiritual Sources
Source: Interfax Moscow, June 22, Interfax – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill urged European religious leaders to make collective efforts to pursue the revival of Christianity within the continent. “The Russian Orthodox Church proposes that European Christian communities unite to become partners of the states and European civil community in pursuing the revival…
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Albert Mohler – When the Church Bows to the State: Gay Bishops in the Church of England
Source: Dr. Albert Mohler Blog As if the Church of England does not have enough troubles, word is leaking out of Lambeth Palace that the church is about to allow the appointment of openly gay bishops, so long as those bishops remain celibate. The news has emerged in the form of a leaked internal memorandum…