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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 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:41:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christian-stewardship-what-do-jesus-the-bible-and-the-church-fathers-say-about-tithing-and-giving-to-god/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christian-stewardship-what-do-jesus-the-bible-and-the-church-fathers-say-about-tithing-and-giving-to-god/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:33:49 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=13601 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christian-stewardship-what-do-jesus-the-bible-and-the-church-fathers-say-about-tithing-and-giving-to-god/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/an-eastern-orthodox-case-for-property-rights/ https://www.aoiusa.org/an-eastern-orthodox-case-for-property-rights/#comments Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:27:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=13066 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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Fr. Jensen: …[P]roperty rights are not a panacea – protecting and enhancing private ownership will not cure all that ails us personally or socially. Nor can we separate the exercise of our right to property from the moral law or, for Christians, the Gospel. But Orthodox social thought does I think allow us to make […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/an-eastern-orthodox-case-for-property-rights/feed/ 13 https://www.aoiusa.org/has-europe-lost-its-soul/ https://www.aoiusa.org/has-europe-lost-its-soul/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:35:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11329 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 religious roots of the market economy and of democratic capitalism…were produced by a culture saturated in the values of the Judaeo-Christian heritage, and market economics was originally intended to advance those values.” “When Europe recovers its soul, it will recover its wealth-creating energies. But first it must remember: humanity was not created to serve […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/has-europe-lost-its-soul/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-national-council-of-churches-%e2%80%98balancing-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-the-poor%e2%80%99/ https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-national-council-of-churches-%e2%80%98balancing-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-the-poor%e2%80%99/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:45:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10999 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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Source: Acton Power Blog | John C. Couretas A “budget is a moral document,” right? The Institute on Religion & Democracy reports that following the loss of a major donor, the National Council of Churches (NCC) finds itself “closer than ever before to the precipice” of financial collapse. The progressive/liberal church coalition, comprised largely of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-national-council-of-churches-%e2%80%98balancing-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-the-poor%e2%80%99/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-time-to-end-clergy-tax-breaks/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-time-to-end-clergy-tax-breaks/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:43:10 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10974 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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Source: Acton Institute | Fr. Gregory Jensen Unless you are a member of the clergy or involved with the finances of a church or temple, you probably don’t know that since 1921 the federal government has subsidized a congregation’s remuneration of its pastor.  This happens through the extension of a housing or “parsonage allowance” that […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-time-to-end-clergy-tax-breaks/feed/ 17 https://www.aoiusa.org/chris-banescu-bishop-savas-is-wrong-on-taxes-on-the-poor-and-the-rich/ https://www.aoiusa.org/chris-banescu-bishop-savas-is-wrong-on-taxes-on-the-poor-and-the-rich/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:31:39 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10892 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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Chris Banescu corrects some bad math and sloppy assertions. Source: A Voice in the Wilderness | Chris Banescu Bishop Savas (Zembillas), GOA’s Director of the Office of Church and Society, has launched into yet another missive against conservatives whom he frequently condemns of hating the poor and only protecting the rich. On his facebook page, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/chris-banescu-bishop-savas-is-wrong-on-taxes-on-the-poor-and-the-rich/feed/ 42 https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-protect-the-poor-not-poverty-programs/ https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-protect-the-poor-not-poverty-programs/#respond Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:42:22 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10677 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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Source: Acton Institute | By John Couretas One of the disturbing aspects of the liberal/progressive faith campaign known as the Circle of Protection is that its organizers have such little regard – indeed are blind to — the innate freedom of the human person. Their campaign, which has published “A Statement on Why We Need […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-protect-the-poor-not-poverty-programs/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/jessie-s-cone-fr-leonids-culture-war/ https://www.aoiusa.org/jessie-s-cone-fr-leonids-culture-war/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:14:58 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10625 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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Jesse S. Cone provides a compelling critique below of Fr. Leonid Kishkovsky’s signing of Jim Wallis’ “Circle of Protection” proclamation. The document was crafted by Wallis and signed mostly by left-leaning Christians ostensibly to protect the poor from draconian budget cuts. Wallis is a 1960’s style liberal who still believes that government has the resources […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/jessie-s-cone-fr-leonids-culture-war/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-peter-michael-preble-a-christian-response-to-the-ongoing-enslavement-of-americas-poor/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-peter-michael-preble-a-christian-response-to-the-ongoing-enslavement-of-americas-poor/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:58:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10609 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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Source: Huffington Post | Fr. Peter-Michael Preble Yesterday, President Obama signed a law that will raise the debt ceiling and continue to enslave the American people for another three or four years. It has reduced the national debit some but it seems to me at least that it has not gone far enough. Just so […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-peter-michael-preble-a-christian-response-to-the-ongoing-enslavement-of-americas-poor/feed/ 17 https://www.aoiusa.org/rev-robert-j-sirico-the-church-as-the-bride-of-caesar/ https://www.aoiusa.org/rev-robert-j-sirico-the-church-as-the-bride-of-caesar/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:58:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10466 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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Rev. Robert J. Sirico, president of the Acton Institute criticizes Rev. Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourner’s Magazine. Wallis, the “self-appointed chaplain to the Democratic National Committee” as Sirico calls him, was recently revealed to be taking money from George Soros, a charge he denied at first but was finally forced to confirm as more […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/rev-robert-j-sirico-the-church-as-the-bride-of-caesar/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/religion-and-economics-a-review-of-aei%e2%80%99s-common-sense-concept-series/ https://www.aoiusa.org/religion-and-economics-a-review-of-aei%e2%80%99s-common-sense-concept-series/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:18:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9911 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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Over the last several years I find myself more and more being drawn more into conversation about religion—specifically, Orthodox Christianity—and economics. Originally, my interest in the economic side of the conversation was minimal.  Embarrassing though it is to say now, I only took one economics class in college and while I got a “B” I […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/religion-and-economics-a-review-of-aei%e2%80%99s-common-sense-concept-series/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/charting-the-course-to-7-gas/ https://www.aoiusa.org/charting-the-course-to-7-gas/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:54:51 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9892 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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I’m not an economist but the the essay below makes a lot of sense. The author, J. Kevin Meaders, says this is the cycle we are in: The Fed has tripled the money supply and reduced interest rates to zero. A stronger economy is trying to get off the ground but can’t because all the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/charting-the-course-to-7-gas/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/%e2%80%9corthodox-background-leaves-bulgaria-and-romania-at-the-tail-of-eu%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-social-scientist-video/ https://www.aoiusa.org/%e2%80%9corthodox-background-leaves-bulgaria-and-romania-at-the-tail-of-eu%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-social-scientist-video/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:51:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9708 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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Source: Prime Time Russia Doctor Joachim Zweynert, from the Hamburg Institute of International Economics, spoke to RT about the transition performance of Bulgaria and Romania in relation to the issue of EU conditionality. “When the transition process started in the early 1990s, people, and especially social scientists, expected the countries in the region would quickly […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/%e2%80%9corthodox-background-leaves-bulgaria-and-romania-at-the-tail-of-eu%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-social-scientist-video/feed/ 38 https://www.aoiusa.org/america-slouching-towards-fiscal-armageddon/ https://www.aoiusa.org/america-slouching-towards-fiscal-armageddon/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:46:28 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9512 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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Chris Banescu, a frequent contributor to the Observer and noted blogmeister in the Orthodox world (who irritates the liberals to no end), has a new article published on American Thinker today. Good work Chris! Source: American Thinker and ChrisBanescu.com America is in grave danger. Our government’s out-of-control spending and our politicians’ refusal to implement meaningful […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/america-slouching-towards-fiscal-armageddon/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-debate-between-alexandr-dugin-and-olavo-de-carvalho/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-debate-between-alexandr-dugin-and-olavo-de-carvalho/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:05:07 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9391 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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AOI Observer reader Fabio Lins has a keen interest in political philosophy and culture. Occasionally he sends me links of debates happening elsewhere which always prove interesting and timely. Yesterday he notified me of an online debate between Russian nationalist Alexandr Dugin and conservative Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho. I asked Fabio to write an […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-debate-between-alexandr-dugin-and-olavo-de-carvalho/feed/ 53