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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 Sat, 12 May 2012 02:15:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-false-promise-of-green-energy-video/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-false-promise-of-green-energy-video/#comments Sat, 12 May 2012 02:06:37 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11738 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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Economist Andrew Morris on Patriarch Bartholomew’s ideas on sustainable energy: “[H]e’s asking the wrong questions.” Source: Acton Institute Power Blog | HT: Koinonia For PowerBlog readers, we’re posting the video from Andrew Morriss’ April 26 Acton Lecture Series talk in Grand Rapids, Mich., on “The False Promise of Green Energy.” Here’s the lecture description: “Green […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-false-promise-of-green-energy-video/feed/ 27 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-michael-butler-orthodoxy-and-environmentalism/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-michael-butler-orthodoxy-and-environmentalism/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:44:05 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10167 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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As a companion to the text of His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah’s address (“Ascestism and the Consumer Society“) at Acton University published here, we’re posting the audio from a lecture by the Very Rev. Michael Butler on Orthodoxy and Environmentalism. We’re grateful to the Acton Institute for making this lecture available to AOI. To purchase a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-michael-butler-orthodoxy-and-environmentalism/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-%e2%80%9cpeace-is-a-matter-of-choice%e2%80%9d/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-%e2%80%9cpeace-is-a-matter-of-choice%e2%80%9d/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 04:19:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9941 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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This is sure to warm the heart of religious liberals who are always on prowl looking for new ways to establish their righteousness. Global warming is disintegrating like the Death Star penetrated by Luke Skywalker’s missile and another cause has to be found quick. Maybe they can dust off the ‘peacemaker’ jargon. It has a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-%e2%80%9cpeace-is-a-matter-of-choice%e2%80%9d/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/humility-prudence-and-earth-day/ https://www.aoiusa.org/humility-prudence-and-earth-day/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:22:35 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9814 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 | John Couretas At a World Council of Churches conference last year on the French-Swiss border, much was made of the “likelihood of mass population displacement” driven by climate change and the mass migration of people fleeing zones inundated by rising seas. While the WCC acknowledged that “there are no solid estimates” […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/humility-prudence-and-earth-day/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/how-do-we-explain-natural-disasters-like-earthquakes-and-tsunamis/ https://www.aoiusa.org/how-do-we-explain-natural-disasters-like-earthquakes-and-tsunamis/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:13:51 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9563 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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This essay below that Fr. David Hudson sent along is timely. I have a small parish now which means that after the Divine Liturgy we always have a discussion about any topic that people want to talk about. Today we had the question: How do we make sense of the tsunami in Japan? It wasn’t […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/how-do-we-explain-natural-disasters-like-earthquakes-and-tsunamis/feed/ 20 https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-greek-patriarch-no-nukes/ https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-greek-patriarch-no-nukes/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:41:24 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9492 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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With the terrible human toll from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami catastrophe only now being comprehended, and the grave follow on crisis at the country’s nuclear power plants unfolding by the hour, the anti-nuclear power crowd has already begun issuing statements such as the one Greenpeace put out saying that “nuclear power cannot ever be safe.” […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/john-couretas-greek-patriarch-no-nukes/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-to-japan-and-the-world-enough-nuclear-energy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-to-japan-and-the-world-enough-nuclear-energy/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:03:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9450 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: Asia News | NAT da Polis Istanbul (AsiaNews) – A vibrant and heartfelt appeal to States to abandon the use of nuclear energy: this is the message sent by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the Japanese people to express the solidarity of the Orthodox world. The message was sent on the first Sunday of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bartholomew-i-to-japan-and-the-world-enough-nuclear-energy/feed/ 15 https://www.aoiusa.org/iocc-stands-ready-to-offer-aid-following-earthquake-and-tsunami-in-japan/ https://www.aoiusa.org/iocc-stands-ready-to-offer-aid-following-earthquake-and-tsunami-in-japan/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:46:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9447 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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Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) has assembled its emergency response personnel to assess the humanitarian needs and possible response to a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan on March 11. Initial reports indicate that hundreds of people perished in a powerful tsunami and that the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/iocc-stands-ready-to-offer-aid-following-earthquake-and-tsunami-in-japan/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-calls-on-world-to-reject-nuclear-power/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-calls-on-world-to-reject-nuclear-power/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:09:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9441 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: H KAΘHMEPINH Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios has called on the world to reject nuclear energy, following the problems Japan has suffered with its reactors in the wake of Friday’s earthquake. Vartholomaios, who has long campaigned for greater environmental awareness, said the world should turn to renewable energy sources. “We propose the use of green forms […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-calls-on-world-to-reject-nuclear-power/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/london-globe-can-environmentalism-be-saved-from-itself/ https://www.aoiusa.org/london-globe-can-environmentalism-be-saved-from-itself/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:31:09 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8422 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 Globe and Mail published in Toronto, Canada on the intellectual bankruptcy of the Global Warming movement and how a handful of ideological activists have nearly buried responsible concern for the environment. Highlight: Copenhagen was not a political breakdown. It was an intellectual breakdown so astonishing that future generations will marvel at our blind credulity. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/london-globe-can-environmentalism-be-saved-from-itself/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/enviromentalism-as-religion-doesnt-the-ep-get-it/ https://www.aoiusa.org/enviromentalism-as-religion-doesnt-the-ep-get-it/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:40:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8169 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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Do you want to understand why the Ecumenical Patriarch’s coddling of environmentalism is not only wrong-headed but dangerous? First read Environmentalism as Religion in the New Atlantis magazine. Then recall that His All Holiness threw the full moral weight of his office behind of the Geneva Protocols, a crown jewel of environmental activism, during the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/enviromentalism-as-religion-doesnt-the-ep-get-it/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/religion-and-the-environment-the-link-between-survival-and-salvation/ https://www.aoiusa.org/religion-and-the-environment-the-link-between-survival-and-salvation/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:54:17 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8129 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 want our leadership to provide thoughtful analysis on cultural issues but too often we get the thin gruel of popular piety dressed up in Church-speak. Take this latest missive from Constantinople on the environment for example. Where to begin? There is no reflection about the falsification of data by global warming apologists, no awareness […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/religion-and-the-environment-the-link-between-survival-and-salvation/feed/ 19 https://www.aoiusa.org/catholics-and-orthodox-report-promising-progress-in-latest-round-of-unity-talks/ https://www.aoiusa.org/catholics-and-orthodox-report-promising-progress-in-latest-round-of-unity-talks/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:51:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7742 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 was going to post the release below a few days ago but decided against because, well, it had that ring of Constantinopolitan triumphalism to it. I’m jaded by Constantinople’s global warming initiative where the full moral force of the Constantinopolitan Patriarchate (as well as the complete administrative resources of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese) was […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/catholics-and-orthodox-report-promising-progress-in-latest-round-of-unity-talks/feed/ 16 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomews-message-for-world-environment-day/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomews-message-for-world-environment-day/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:50:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6951 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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It’s too bad that Constantinople won’t dispense with the Progressive rhetoric (first paragraph) because it creates the impression that Orthodoxy endorses the shabby thinking behind the ideology. (On the other hand, perhaps Constantinople does buy into the Progressive world view given that we were told global warming is established fact and were exhorted to work […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomews-message-for-world-environment-day/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-damick-this-holy-earth-ecological-vision-in-the-cosmic-cathedral/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-damick-this-holy-earth-ecological-vision-in-the-cosmic-cathedral/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:13:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6056 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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Theology is an unwelcome guest at international symposiums on environmental concerns which are largely occupied by data crunching in the service of politicians, international corporate interests, and environmental celebrities, says Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick, in Part 1 of his podcast This Holy Earth – Ecological Vision In The Cosmic Cathedral. But without a vision, the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-damick-this-holy-earth-ecological-vision-in-the-cosmic-cathedral/feed/ 3