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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 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:47:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/after-the-desert-a-faithful-catholics-reflection-on-same-sex-attraction/ https://www.aoiusa.org/after-the-desert-a-faithful-catholics-reflection-on-same-sex-attraction/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:19:41 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11171 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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Steve Gershom (a pseudonym), the author of the following essay, is a faithful Catholic who has abandoned the homosexual life-style. Gershom affirms many points made earlier on the AOI Observer: the term gay, or even homosexual describes behavior and should never be construed ontologically, as a constituent of self-identity; homosexual actions are always sinful; the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/after-the-desert-a-faithful-catholics-reflection-on-same-sex-attraction/feed/ 8 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/did-presbyterian-church-usa-decline-start-with-dialogue/ https://www.aoiusa.org/did-presbyterian-church-usa-decline-start-with-dialogue/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:56:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10810 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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Does this sound familiar? Quoting Alan F.H. Wisdom, Adjunct Fellow of the Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD): “Progressive leaders have expressed their hope that the church could remain united, that people would not leave. They say that they want to have the contributions and involvement of more conservative Presbyterians in the denomination,” he explained. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/did-presbyterian-church-usa-decline-start-with-dialogue/feed/ 26 https://www.aoiusa.org/facebook-listening-group-drags-culture-wars-into-the-orthodox-church/ https://www.aoiusa.org/facebook-listening-group-drags-culture-wars-into-the-orthodox-church/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:19:20 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10750 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 Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse Progressive fads sweep through the culture like clockwork. Remember the impending global ice age in the 1970s that morphed into global warming today? How about the fight about abortion where anyone who dared criticize it was branded as a hater of women? Remember the Equal Rights Amendment and how convinced […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/facebook-listening-group-drags-culture-wars-into-the-orthodox-church/feed/ 18 https://www.aoiusa.org/albert-mohler-evangelicals-and-the-gay-moral-revolution/ https://www.aoiusa.org/albert-mohler-evangelicals-and-the-gay-moral-revolution/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:58:13 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10685 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 the essay below, Dr. Mohler is speaking to an Evangelical Christian readership but many of his observations apply to all Christians. The normalization of homosexual behavior is a moral revolution Mohler writes and not one that Christians can join and remain faithful to their Christian faith. He’s right about that. There will be pressure […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/albert-mohler-evangelicals-and-the-gay-moral-revolution/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/st-nicholas-cathedral-urges-oca-to-adopt-sanctity-of-marriage-sunday/ https://www.aoiusa.org/st-nicholas-cathedral-urges-oca-to-adopt-sanctity-of-marriage-sunday/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:14:45 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10668 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 OCALaity: “St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington DC has sent five resolutions to the OCA’s Resolution Committee for consideration at the upcoming 16th All American Council. The resolutions can be found at www.OCALaity.com. The resolutions deal with marriage, our OCA youth, monasteries, child sexual abuse, and a deaf outreach. Of particular interest to most Orthodox […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/st-nicholas-cathedral-urges-oca-to-adopt-sanctity-of-marriage-sunday/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/shifts-in-paradigms-an-orthodox-psychiatrist-on-homosexuality/ https://www.aoiusa.org/shifts-in-paradigms-an-orthodox-psychiatrist-on-homosexuality/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:50:02 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10612 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: pravoslavie.ru Dr. Lynne Pappas, in Orthodox baptism, Magdalene, is a highly respected psychiatrist, board certified in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry, practicing in Butte county and the Chico area of northern California. She has been practicing psychiatric medicine for over twenty-two years. She is also the president of the parish council of the Church […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/shifts-in-paradigms-an-orthodox-psychiatrist-on-homosexuality/feed/ 31 https://www.aoiusa.org/oca-bishop-matthias-reaffirms-orthodox-teaching-on-homosexuality/ https://www.aoiusa.org/oca-bishop-matthias-reaffirms-orthodox-teaching-on-homosexuality/#comments Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:26:23 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10525 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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Editor’s commentary: When the light shines, the darkness is made manifest scripture tells us and nowhere is this clearer than in the debate about the morality of homosexuality in the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Most readers know that this debate is heating up, driven in large part by the Facebook group Listening: Breaking the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/oca-bishop-matthias-reaffirms-orthodox-teaching-on-homosexuality/feed/ 44 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-encyclical-on-homosexuality/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-encyclical-on-homosexuality/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:24:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10455 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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July 28, 201 Beloved Fathers, brothers and sisters in Christ, If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-encyclical-on-homosexuality/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-thomas-hopko-the-homosexual-christian/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-thomas-hopko-the-homosexual-christian/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:10:47 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10424 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: OrthodoxyToday.org Many gay men and lesbians claim that the Christian faith is the guiding rule of their lives. Some of them hold that their sexual orientation is given by God, that it is good, and that there is nothing wrong or sinful with their homosexual activities. These persons say that the Bible and Church […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-thomas-hopko-the-homosexual-christian/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-josiah-trenham-the-orthodox-church-and-same-sex-marriage-video/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-josiah-trenham-the-orthodox-church-and-same-sex-marriage-video/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:51:19 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10418 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. Josiah Trenham pastor of St. Andrew Orthodox Christian Church in Riverside, California offers a two part talk responding to the August, 2010 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in California. Fr. Josiah’s talk was given in August, 2010. Source: St. Andrew Orthodox Church Youtube Page]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-josiah-trenham-the-orthodox-church-and-same-sex-marriage-video/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-alexander-f-c-webster-a-gauntlet-from-archpriest-alexis-vinogradov-wappingers-falls-ny/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-alexander-f-c-webster-a-gauntlet-from-archpriest-alexis-vinogradov-wappingers-falls-ny/#comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:57:45 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10409 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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Just when we begin to wonder whether some of the recent musings of OCA priests and laity on homosexuality may not be what they seem, along comes another one that raises the rhetorical ante and reminds us that we are, indeed, whether we desire it or not, engaged in spiritual warfare. In a bizarre, presumably […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-alexander-f-c-webster-a-gauntlet-from-archpriest-alexis-vinogradov-wappingers-falls-ny/feed/ 47 https://www.aoiusa.org/bp-nicholas-dimarzio-catholic-church-must-influence-marriage-debate/ https://www.aoiusa.org/bp-nicholas-dimarzio-catholic-church-must-influence-marriage-debate/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:55:37 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10391 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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So far the only Orthodox bishops offering more than pro-forma defenses of the moral tradition are Met. Job and Bp. Michael of the OCA. Below is an example of how moral authority is rightly exercised. Roman Catholic Bp. Nicholas DiMarzio offers a very reasoned and accessible analysis and defense of the major points in the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/bp-nicholas-dimarzio-catholic-church-must-influence-marriage-debate/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/george-weigel-no-homophobia-a-reminder-about-the-totalitarian-temptation/ https://www.aoiusa.org/george-weigel-no-homophobia-a-reminder-about-the-totalitarian-temptation/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:14:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10328 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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Highlight: “Americans will say, “It can’t happen here.” But it can, and it may. Before the ink was dry on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s signature on New York’s new marriage law, the New York Times published an editorial decrying the “religious exemptions” that had been written into the marriage law at the last moment. Those exemptions […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/george-weigel-no-homophobia-a-reminder-about-the-totalitarian-temptation/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/sergey-khudiev-let-your-yea-be-yea-and-your-nay-be-nay/ https://www.aoiusa.org/sergey-khudiev-let-your-yea-be-yea-and-your-nay-be-nay/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:19:55 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10324 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: Pavmir Translated from Russian by Fr. Andrew Phillips. The article by Archpriest Robert Arida ‘Response To Myself is of interest, but not so much because it shows a certain approach, which is above all characteristic of contemporary liberal Protestantism. Convinced atheists, Muslims and Christians of various confessions have something in common – they all […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/sergey-khudiev-let-your-yea-be-yea-and-your-nay-be-nay/feed/ 5