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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, 23 Jun 2012 20:31:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/deconstructing-an-internal-contradiction-in-the-goa/ https://www.aoiusa.org/deconstructing-an-internal-contradiction-in-the-goa/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:16:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11482 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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Andrew Estocin asks: Father JJ, how do you see this internal contradiction playing out with regards to the riots and unrest in Greece? The GOA has never addressed the moral and social underpinnings of these problems. Is the GOA so captive to the fantasy narrative of the Greek Community in America that it is unable […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/deconstructing-an-internal-contradiction-in-the-goa/feed/ 20 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/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/more-evidence-that-the-eps-global-warming-stance-was-reckless/ https://www.aoiusa.org/more-evidence-that-the-eps-global-warming-stance-was-reckless/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:58:27 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5554 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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We warned the Ecumenical Patriarch that endorsing the global warming agenda was reckless. Anyone with eyes to see clearly saw that global warming (since renamed “climate change” — a harbinger that the effort might freeze over) was a political, not scientific, enterprise designed to wrestle control of economies away from nation-states and hand it over […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/more-evidence-that-the-eps-global-warming-stance-was-reckless/feed/ 21 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-trivialized-in-wcc-public-relations-stunt/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-trivialized-in-wcc-public-relations-stunt/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:15:06 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4553 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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From Brietbart: The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as a call to action on global warming. The leading council of Christian and Orthodox churches also invited places of worship for other faiths to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-trivialized-in-wcc-public-relations-stunt/feed/ 35 https://www.aoiusa.org/response-to-the-patriarchal-address/ https://www.aoiusa.org/response-to-the-patriarchal-address/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:06:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4468 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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While the Patriarchal address has much to commend it, the leveling of ideas it exhibits is troubling. The essay below was originally written as a comment, but I posting it here for comment and analysis. Frankly, the ideas in this speech are muddled. It sounds like it an American wrote it who has only a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/response-to-the-patriarchal-address/feed/ 62 https://www.aoiusa.org/green-patriarch-backs-un-climate-change-framework/ https://www.aoiusa.org/green-patriarch-backs-un-climate-change-framework/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:11:36 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3717 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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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I weighs in on the Bangkok Climate Change conference where delegates were greeted with “stern pep talks”: Istanbul, Turkey, 9/28/2009 In view of the international negotiations on climate change commencing in Bangkok, Thailand, and only two months before the crucial United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, we urge the international community […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/green-patriarch-backs-un-climate-change-framework/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/hope-for-the-future/ https://www.aoiusa.org/hope-for-the-future/#respond Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:29:55 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=558 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 Sweden, the Interfaith Climate Summit has issued forth with the The Uppsala Interfaith Climate Manifesto, a perfectly ordinary amalgam of religious sentiment and environmental alarmism typical of ecumenical groups. Which is to say that there’s precious little political, economic or scientific insight in the broadside from Uppsala. Of course, there’s no indication from the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/hope-for-the-future/feed/ 0