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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 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:30:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 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/orthodox-speakers-at-acton-university-2013-audio/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-speakers-at-acton-university-2013-audio/#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:53:51 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12807 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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Acton University is a unique, four-day exploration of the intellectual foundations of a free society. Guided by a distinguished international faculty, Acton University is an opportunity to deepen your knowledge and integrate rigorous philosophy, Christian theology, and sound economics. At this year’s event, the following Orthodox speakers were featured: Fr. Gregory Jensen, Fr. Michael Butler […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-speakers-at-acton-university-2013-audio/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-canons-and-guns-an-eastern-orthodox-response-to-a-huffpo-writer/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-canons-and-guns-an-eastern-orthodox-response-to-a-huffpo-writer/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:04:04 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12517 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 Power Blog | Fr. Gregory Jensen Several of my friends on Facebook pages posted a link to David Dunn’s Huffington Post essay on gun control (An Eastern Orthodox Case for Banning Assault Weapons). As Dylan Pahman posted earlier today, Dunn, an Eastern Orthodox Christian, is to be commended for bringing the tradition […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-canons-and-guns-an-eastern-orthodox-response-to-a-huffpo-writer/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-on-our-orthodox-christianitys-cultural-failings/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-on-our-orthodox-christianitys-cultural-failings/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:13:47 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11964 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. Gregory Jensen wrote the following response to my essay (Catholic Online: The Republic is Finished and the America We Knew is Gone). It’s good, really good in fact, and I am posting it here to generate discussion that not only analyzes the reason for the present decline but to generate discussion of where to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-on-our-orthodox-christianitys-cultural-failings/feed/ 57 https://www.aoiusa.org/christmas-too-commercialized-bah-humbug/ https://www.aoiusa.org/christmas-too-commercialized-bah-humbug/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:53:20 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11271 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: Koinonia A sermon by Fr. Gregory Jenson. From both the left and the right then, we hear attacks of the contemporary American celebration of Christmas. Every year about this time you can be certain that someone—and not necessarily a Christian—will write an essay lamenting the secularization or the commercialization of Christmas. And for the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/christmas-too-commercialized-bah-humbug/feed/ 22 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-moral-imagination-moral-disciple-and-american-culture/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-moral-imagination-moral-disciple-and-american-culture/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:09:09 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10988 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 at Koinonia, Fr. Gregory Jensen writes on the remark by G.K. Chesterton that “America is a country with the soul of a Church.” It was true when Chesterton first said it and it remains true today (as the French never stop reminding us). The problem, Fr. Gregory writes, is that “America is still Christian […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jensen-moral-imagination-moral-disciple-and-american-culture/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/fr-gregory-jenson-conscience-and-the-christian-life-of-virtue/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jenson-conscience-and-the-christian-life-of-virtue/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:46:03 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10827 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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If you are not a regular reader of Fr. Gregory Jensen’s blog Koinonia, bookmark, subscribe, or run down to your nearest internet cafe now! Seriously, Fr. Jensen offers some of the most cogent reflections on the Christian life (drawing deep from the Orthodox moral tradition) of any internet commentator that I know. “As iron sharpens […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jenson-conscience-and-the-christian-life-of-virtue/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jenson-the-orthodox-church-and-civil-society/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jenson-the-orthodox-church-and-civil-society/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:42:32 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9541 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: Koinonia Much like the Catholic Church, Mainline Protestant denominations and Evangelical Christians, the Orthodox Church is struggle to decide whether or not Christ has called us to take an active or a passive role in the world. By his example, Metropolitan Jonah has said we should be active–even proactive–while his critics, either out of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-gregory-jenson-the-orthodox-church-and-civil-society/feed/ 13 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jenson-stewardship-and-the-human-vocation-to-work/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jenson-stewardship-and-the-human-vocation-to-work/#respond Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:50:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9050 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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Acton Institute | Fr. Gregory Jenson Paying the bills and contributing to the collection basket are laudable. But Christian stewardship is significantly more than these; like prayer, fasting, and the sacraments, it is an essential part of our Christian life. More than what we say, the way we use our time, talent and treasure, reveals […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jenson-stewardship-and-the-human-vocation-to-work/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/as-we-move-towards-unity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/as-we-move-towards-unity/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:00:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6364 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 Crumbling of America and the American Orthodox Church The real institutional danger facing Orthodoxy in American arises less from malfeasance and more from reasonably well-intentioned individuals making decisions without a sense of their own limits and the frailty of the Church as a social institution. On Holy Saturday, Peggy Noonan published an interesting and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/as-we-move-towards-unity/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/barbarians-among-us/ https://www.aoiusa.org/barbarians-among-us/#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:55:23 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6327 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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Essays like Fr. Gregory Jensen’s below, give me hope. It reveals the new thinking needed in American Orthodoxy, the kind that is thoughtful and responsibly self-critical. An excerpt is included below. You can read the full article on either the new and improved! Orthodoxy Today, or the AOI main page. (Click the pic for a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/barbarians-among-us/feed/ 57 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jensen-where-is-the-leadership/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jensen-where-is-the-leadership/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 21:37:23 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2212 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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On his blog Koinonia, Fr. Gregory Jensen responds to the Holy Cross faculty letter which, he says, “reflects no serious criticism of the failures of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to provide effective leadership either in the United States much less world wide.” Excerpt: In my view, I think that the leadership of the Ecumenical Throne and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jensen-where-is-the-leadership/feed/ 2