Tag: Culture
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Religion, Journalism, and the New American Orthodoxy
Source: The Witherspoon Institute In an address delivered today before the Religion Newswriters Association, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver commended America’s journalists of religion and challenged them to approach their important work with integrity, fairness, and humility. It’s good to be with you today. Of course, most speakers say that, but I actually mean…
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Mattingly: The Catholic Colbert report
Source: Scripps Howard News For Catholics raised during the head-spinning days after Vatican II, few things inspire flashbacks to the era of flowers and folk Masses quicker than the bouncy hymn “The King of Glory.” But what was a goofy nerd doing on Comedy Central, belting out this folk song while doing a bizarre blend…
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OCF to Present Interfaith Debate at University of Maryland
Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, light your candles! Source: Antiochian.org The Orthodox Christian Fellowship of UMBC, in collaboration with the Secular Student Association of UMBC, is excited to present to the campus community and the general public a debate entitled, “The Source of Human Morality: Interfaith Debate.” How do we define morality? Do people…
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Benedict’s Creative Minority
Ok, I’m back. Had some stuff I had to catch up on but that’s done! Some great essays coming down the pike. Note the mention of Met. Hilarion in this piece. Also note the reference to Toynbee (a great historian) and his thesis that civilizations die from suicide, not external assault, and then read Malcolm…
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Met. Hilarion’s speech at the Nicean Club Dinner (full version)
Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations to the Annual Nicean Club Dinner (Lambeth Palace, 9 September 2010) Speech removed until a corrected version arrives. I was informed that the speech by Met. Hilarion that I posted contains some (mostly minor) errors. Since I want to…