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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, 05 Jul 2015 02:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hans-jacobse-liberty/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hans-jacobse-liberty/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2015 13:55:39 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10276 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hans-jacobse-liberty/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/church-vs-reich/ https://www.aoiusa.org/church-vs-reich/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:48:51 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11574 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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What happened to Christians under the Nazi Regime? The traditionalists went to concentration camps, many fell away and adopted the Nazi neo-paganism, and some clergy actively supported the Third Reich. From the essay: [T]he persecution of the Church was camouflaged as “positive Christianity,” which claimed through the use of quotations from the Bible to be […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/church-vs-reich/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/c-s-lewis-on-dictators-and-totalitarians/ https://www.aoiusa.org/c-s-lewis-on-dictators-and-totalitarians/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 02:37:08 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9937 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: The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment by C.S. Lewis Highlights: Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/c-s-lewis-on-dictators-and-totalitarians/feed/ 32 https://www.aoiusa.org/can-there-be-morality-without-god/ https://www.aoiusa.org/can-there-be-morality-without-god/#comments Sun, 05 Dec 2010 18:35:54 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8450 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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Introductory remarks given at the debate held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. By: Fr. Hans Jacobse I want to thank the Orthodox Christian Fellowship and the Secular Student Alliance of UMBC for their invitation to debate this evening. I am looking forward to a healthy and vigorous debate that is not only academically […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/can-there-be-morality-without-god/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/saint-john-chrysostom-and-21st-century-christians/ https://www.aoiusa.org/saint-john-chrysostom-and-21st-century-christians/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:11:21 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7694 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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Taken from a lecture by Fr. Josiah Trenham and republished on Mystagogy. From Mystagogy: [The following portion of a lecture (all of which I recommend to be read) delivered by the Very Reverend Josiah Trenham in 2007 I found to be a very edifying piece on how Christians can implement at least some of the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/saint-john-chrysostom-and-21st-century-christians/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-steven-kostoff-reflection-on-archbishop-job-a-witness-to-the-truth/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-steven-kostoff-reflection-on-archbishop-job-a-witness-to-the-truth/#respond Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:45:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5368 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. Steven Kostoff asks, why wasn’t Bp. Job’s courageous stand for the truth during the OCA’s recent time of trial acknowled at his funeral? His Eminence, Archbishop Job of Chicago and the Midwest fell asleep in the Lord on Friday, December 18.  His funeral services were held in Chicago on December 22 & 23, and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-steven-kostoff-reflection-on-archbishop-job-a-witness-to-the-truth/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/e-pluribus-unum-one-church-from-many/ https://www.aoiusa.org/e-pluribus-unum-one-church-from-many/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:49:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1268 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 American Orthodox Institute has published a new paper on Orthodox unity by George Michalopulos that examines the historical usage of the title “metropolitan,” the role of the metropolitan in Church administration, and the “crucial” pastoral duty defined in the Divine Liturgy as “rightly dividing the Word of [God’s] Truth.” In “E Pluribus Unum: One […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/e-pluribus-unum-one-church-from-many/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-and-moral-imagination/ https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-and-moral-imagination/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:26:35 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=870 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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Newly elected President Obama, writes John Couretas, Executive Director of AOI in his essay “Obama and the Moral Imagination” frequently makes use of the phrase “common story.” This phrase “may sound strange to the ears. But it is impossible to understand the new president unless his brilliant use of narrative is first grasped,” Couretas says. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/obama-and-moral-imagination/feed/ 30 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-episcopacy-primacy-and-the-mother-churches/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-episcopacy-primacy-and-the-mother-churches/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:06:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=544 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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In June, Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America delivered a talk on “Episcopacy, Primacy, and the Mother Churches: A Monastic Perspective” at the Conference of the Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius at St. Vladimir’s Theological Seminary. The audio of the talk is available on Ancient Faith Radio along with the other […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-episcopacy-primacy-and-the-mother-churches/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/on-the-advantages-of-dying-young/ https://www.aoiusa.org/on-the-advantages-of-dying-young/#respond Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:14:31 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/2008/04/20/on-the-advantages-of-dying-young/ 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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Jonathan David Price, editor of “The Clarion Review” (published by AOI) wrote the essay “On the Advantages of Dying Young “, that was recently published in First Principles (“the home of American intellectual conservatism”). Price writes: There is so much talk about the advantages of long life nowadays that when confronted with “tragic” young deaths […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/on-the-advantages-of-dying-young/feed/ 0