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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:14:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/in-the-wake-of-the-election/ https://www.aoiusa.org/in-the-wake-of-the-election/#respond Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:30:19 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=300 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Whether your guy won or lost on Tuesday (mine came in second) you have to marvel at this very exceptional nation called America. And, indeed, the whole world is doing just that. In an editorial, the Times of London described the election as a “Masterclass in Democracy”: The world has been fascinated and profoundly moved […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/in-the-wake-of-the-election/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/new-study-the-orthodox-church-today/ https://www.aoiusa.org/new-study-the-orthodox-church-today/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:19:52 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=231 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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The Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute, based in Berkeley, Calif., has released what it is calling “the first national survey based study of the laity, ordinary church members, in the two largest Orthodox Churches in the United States: the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA) and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).” To a significant degree, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/new-study-the-orthodox-church-today/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-late-refined-flower-of-culture/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-late-refined-flower-of-culture/#respond Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:50:03 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/2008/03/28/the-late-refined-flower-of-culture/ Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Russian emigre philosopher Georgy Fedotov (1888-1951) proposed two basic principles for all of the freedoms by which modern democracy lives. First, and most valuable, there are the freedoms of “conviction” — in speech, in print, and in organized social activity. These freedoms, Fedotov asserted, developed out of the freedom of faith. The other principle of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-late-refined-flower-of-culture/feed/ 0