Tag: Culture
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Judging Marriage: Proposition 8 Struck Down
What is at stake: Even though his ruling isn’t surprising, his dismissal of the opinions of the people of California and five thousand-plus years of human tradition is breath-taking. Then again, inasmuch as Walker is one of the few openly gay federal judges, maybe his dismissal shouldn’t shock us, either. Let’s be clear. What’s at…
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Orthodoxy appears more comprehensible and close to many English people
Source: Interfax Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh passed away seven years ago on August 4, 2003. He founded a unique Russian Orthodox diocese in Great Britain and united not only Russian natives, but thousands of English believers. Even Prince Charles came to his church services. The number of parishioners is still growing as new Russian…
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Acton Institute: Alinsky for Dummies
For those who don’t know how Saul Alinsky influenced some of our current political and cultural leaders, listen to this primer on Alinsky held a few months back at the Acton Institute. Alinsky’s methodology came of age in the 1960’s and 1970’s and has been institutionalized especially in the academy and the cultural left where…
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Orthodoxy and Homosexuality, Parts One and Two
Source: Ancient Faith Radio Orthodoxy and Homosexuality, Part One In this podcast Steve references an article he wrote for AGAIN Magazine on the Orthodox Church and same sex attraction. In it he shares the results of several interviews with Orthodox men and women who shared their backgrounds and experiences as homosexuals before and after becoming…
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A secular argument against gay marriage
From: Gay Marriage — and Marriage by Sam Shulman. To me, what is at stake in this debate is not only the potential unhappiness of children, grave as that is; it is our ability to maintain the most basic components of our humanity. I believe, in fact, that we are at an “Antigone moment.” Some…