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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 Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:26:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/dylan-pahman-climate-change-the-green-patriarch-and-the-disposition-of-fear/ https://www.aoiusa.org/dylan-pahman-climate-change-the-green-patriarch-and-the-disposition-of-fear/#comments Fri, 06 Dec 2013 01:22:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=13098 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 Powerblog | Dylan Pahman Today at First Things’ On the Square feature, I question the tone and timing of Patriarch Batholomew’s recent message on climate change. While I do not object to him making a statement about the subject in conjunction with the opening of the Warsaw Climate Change Conference, his initial reference, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/dylan-pahman-climate-change-the-green-patriarch-and-the-disposition-of-fear/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriach-bartholomew-coddles-environmental-extremists/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriach-bartholomew-coddles-environmental-extremists/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:01:51 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11937 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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– Taking care of the environment involves more than clean air, clean water, recycling and the other factors that we usually associate with responsible stewardship. It also involves ideas about the economy, human relationships, structuring communities, the meaning and value of work, the value of the unborn and aged and so forth. Every environmental program […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriach-bartholomew-coddles-environmental-extremists/feed/ 21 https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-environmentalism-costs-nothing/ https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-environmentalism-costs-nothing/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:48:10 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11924 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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By John Couretas In his June 18 keynote address at the opening ceremony of the Halki Summit in Turkey, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew looked forward to the start of the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainability, June 20-22. He noted that attendees at his environmental gathering were “deeply frustrated with the stubborn resistance and reluctant […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/christian-environmentalism-costs-nothing/feed/ 27 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/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/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/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/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/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/green-patriarch-on-copenhagen/ https://www.aoiusa.org/green-patriarch-on-copenhagen/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:31:42 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5083 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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Interviewed on Al Jazeera: And a statement (Source: ANA-MPA): ISTANBUL — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew called for a legally binding international agreement to avert the overheating of the planet, in a letter addressed to the leaders of the international community in view of the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen. Reaching a beneficial agreement within […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/green-patriarch-on-copenhagen/feed/ 16 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-ep-and-climategate-wagon-hitched-to-the-wrong-horse/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-ep-and-climategate-wagon-hitched-to-the-wrong-horse/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:07:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4746 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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A scandal in global warming research is unfolding that isn’t going away. Internal correspondence from the Climate Reseach Unit (CRU), the research center and ground zero for global warming advocacy, was released that reveals that the top global warming scientists hid data that proves the earth has been cooling for the last ten years, conspired […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-ep-and-climategate-wagon-hitched-to-the-wrong-horse/feed/ 54 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-sums-up-visit-with-greek-diaspora-in-america/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-sums-up-visit-with-greek-diaspora-in-america/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:17:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4629 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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Turkey, Nov. 10, 2009 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew referred to the great progress made by the Greek Diaspora in statements he made upon his return from a two-week visit to the United States. Addressing the faithful in the Church of the Taxiarchs in Bosporus, the Ecumenical Patriarch stated that the progress achieved by the Greek Community, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-sums-up-visit-with-greek-diaspora-in-america/feed/ 32 https://www.aoiusa.org/boldness-or-irrelevance/ https://www.aoiusa.org/boldness-or-irrelevance/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:04:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4494 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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John Mark Reynolds at the Scriptorium: There is a boldness that should come with the a commitment to Christ. When the Green Patriarch (Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew) goes to a university ridden with the problems of our age and only tells them the parts of the Christian faith with which they are likely to agree, we […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/boldness-or-irrelevance/feed/ 4