Tag: Culture
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Met. Jonah’s 2009 Lenten message
On Feb. 28, Metropolitan Jonah, the head of the Orthodox Church in America, posted the following message: Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! To the Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America Dearly Beloved in the Lord: Christ is in our midst! Our Church has…
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Fr. Harakas: St. Athanasius the ‘supreme model’
Orthodox Christians have “a message and a way of life” that they must present as “an alternative to the morally and spiritually down-spiraling contemporary American lifestyle,” says Fr. Stanley Harakas, Archbishop Iakovos Professor of Orthodox Theology Emeritus at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Fr. Harakas was the keynote speaker at Fordham University’s Orthodoxy…
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Quote from Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana
Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana and a convert from Hinduism to Roman Catholicism, quoted in Newsweek (Dec. 2008) on religion: “If I wanted the aesthetics without the inconvenient morality, I could become Episcopalian.” Source: Newsweek
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Cultural Treasures of the Church of Greece
Solidarity, the main charity organization of the Church of Greece, has launched “The Cultural Treasures of the Church of Greece,” a multimedia site rich with art, architecture, manuscripts and a digital map where these can be sorted by location. The GR Reporter news site says that more than 30,000 Church treasures can be found in…