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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/russian-orthodox-church-canonizes-new-martyr-who-died-at-the-hands-of-the-nazis/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-canonizes-new-martyr-who-died-at-the-hands-of-the-nazis/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:25:45 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11454 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: Orthodox Cognate The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia has canonized Russian national Alexander Schmorell, a native of Orenburg, who was executed by the Nazi regime in 1943 for organizing an anti-fascist student group called the White Rose, the Church Bulletin publication reported. The ceremony to glorify St. Alexander of Munich, who was […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-canonizes-new-martyr-who-died-at-the-hands-of-the-nazis/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/renewing-christendom-ts-eliot-the-journey-of-the-magi-audio/ https://www.aoiusa.org/renewing-christendom-ts-eliot-the-journey-of-the-magi-audio/#respond Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:12:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11283 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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Below is a rare recording taken from a live interview T.S. Eliot did for the BBC during World War II. Eliot reads his poem “The Journey of Magi” where the sojourner retraces the steps of the Magi in his own time and place. The poem recalls a time when the knowledge of Christ was more […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/renewing-christendom-ts-eliot-the-journey-of-the-magi-audio/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-limits-of-secularism/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-limits-of-secularism/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:20:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11277 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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An outsanding analysis by the Chief Rabbi of England Lord Sacks. Some highlights: In 1997…I argued that the world had moved on since (Isaiah) Berlin’s great 1957 lecture “Two Concepts of Liberty” (.pdf), and that the threat to liberty was now different: not totalitarianism but rather the internal moral decay of free societies. So there […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-limits-of-secularism/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/cultural-legacy-of-communism-armenian-women-still-have-average-of-8-and-as-high-as-20-abortions-in-lifetime/ https://www.aoiusa.org/cultural-legacy-of-communism-armenian-women-still-have-average-of-8-and-as-high-as-20-abortions-in-lifetime/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:36:45 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11253 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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When the Berlin Wall fell everyone pondered the ramifications as East Germany rejoined their Western brothers and presumably in a few short years catapult Germany to even higher economic prominence. It didn’t happen. As it turned out, all it takes to weaken a culture is one generation. Sixty years can wipe values and habits that […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/cultural-legacy-of-communism-armenian-women-still-have-average-of-8-and-as-high-as-20-abortions-in-lifetime/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/wnd-bonhoeffer-in-harlem/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wnd-bonhoeffer-in-harlem/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:39:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11186 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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When I attended seminary over 20 years ago, one of my favorite activities was the inter-seminary dialogues. Once a month about seven or eight of us would drive down to Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan to meet up with Jewish rabbinical students and seminarians from Union Theological Seminary (Protestant) and St. Joseph’s (Catholic). You’d think […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wnd-bonhoeffer-in-harlem/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/church-that-held-the-7th-ecumenical-council-at-nicea-to-be-turned-into-mosque/ https://www.aoiusa.org/church-that-held-the-7th-ecumenical-council-at-nicea-to-be-turned-into-mosque/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:04:08 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11148 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: Vatican Insider Hagia Sophia in Nicea, where the Seventh Ecumenical Council was held in 787, is about to be declared a mosque by the Turkish authorities. As the Turkish press reports, the call to prayer was sung from the Muezzin last Thursday, for the first time since the founding of the Turkish Republish in […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/church-that-held-the-7th-ecumenical-council-at-nicea-to-be-turned-into-mosque/feed/ 13 https://www.aoiusa.org/with-the-rise-of-militant-secularism-rome-and-moscow-make-common-cause/ https://www.aoiusa.org/with-the-rise-of-militant-secularism-rome-and-moscow-make-common-cause/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:05:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11121 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 Acton Institute just published my essay. Source: Acton Institute | Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse The European religious press is abuzz over recent developments in Orthodox – Catholic relations that indicate both Churches are moving closer together. The diplomatic centerpiece of the activity would be a meeting of Pope Benedict and Patriarch Kyrill of the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/with-the-rise-of-militant-secularism-rome-and-moscow-make-common-cause/feed/ 25 https://www.aoiusa.org/pastoral-message-of-archbishop-demetrios-goa-on-september-11-2001/ https://www.aoiusa.org/pastoral-message-of-archbishop-demetrios-goa-on-september-11-2001/#respond Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:39:35 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10968 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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Very good talk, particularly about the sobriety the attack on 9/11 fostered not only on the people of New York mentioned by Abp. Demetrios, but also all over America. Source: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/pastoral-message-of-archbishop-demetrios-goa-on-september-11-2001/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/society-for-orthodox-church-history-announces-new-journal/ https://www.aoiusa.org/society-for-orthodox-church-history-announces-new-journal/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:51:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10735 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 Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas (SOCHA) is pleased to announce a new, affiliated academic publication, the Journal of American Orthodox Church History (JAOCH). JAOCH is peer reviewed by established scholars within the field and published electronically. JAOCH is published annually and consists of articles, book reviews, and translations of historically significant […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/society-for-orthodox-church-history-announces-new-journal/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/father-of-israeli-president-owes-life-to-greek-monks/ https://www.aoiusa.org/father-of-israeli-president-owes-life-to-greek-monks/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:23:22 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10479 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: Jerusalem Post | Greer Faye Cashman | HT: Mystagogy The Second World War and the Holocaust figured in the official addresses by both President Shimon Peres and his Greek counterpart President Karolos Papoulias at the state dinner that Peres hosted on Monday night in honor of the president of the Hellenic republic. Peres said […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/father-of-israeli-president-owes-life-to-greek-monks/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/where-heaven-falls-prey-to-thieves-the-plundering-of-turkish-occupied-cyprus/ https://www.aoiusa.org/where-heaven-falls-prey-to-thieves-the-plundering-of-turkish-occupied-cyprus/#respond Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:29:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10462 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: Vimeo A short documentary about the extensive art theft that has taken place in North Cyprus since the 1974 Turkish invasion. The theft has taken place with tacit or active approval from the Turkish army. The plunder not only served as a source of income for criminals in North Cyprus and shady antiquity dealers, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/where-heaven-falls-prey-to-thieves-the-plundering-of-turkish-occupied-cyprus/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/solzhenitsyn-men-have-forgotten-god/ https://www.aoiusa.org/solzhenitsyn-men-have-forgotten-god/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:28:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10320 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 Voice Crying in the Wilderness, Chris Banescu reminds us not to forget Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s penetrating analysis into the decline of Western Culture. Solzhenitsyn’s conscience was forged in the crucible of suffering under the Soviet Communists. It was in the Gulag’s where he received the critical insight that the line between good and evil […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/solzhenitsyn-men-have-forgotten-god/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-european-population-will-die-if-it-fails-to-come-back-to-its-spiritual-sources/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-european-population-will-die-if-it-fails-to-come-back-to-its-spiritual-sources/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:38:55 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10160 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: Interfax Moscow, June 22, Interfax – Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill urged European religious leaders to make collective efforts to pursue the revival of Christianity within the continent. “The Russian Orthodox Church proposes that European Christian communities unite to become partners of the states and European civil community in pursuing the revival […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-european-population-will-die-if-it-fails-to-come-back-to-its-spiritual-sources/feed/ 3