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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 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:52:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 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/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/speaking-of-hijacking-the-language/ https://www.aoiusa.org/speaking-of-hijacking-the-language/#respond Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:35:29 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7862 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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(and going down the Anglican road), ELCA Lutherans are offering quite the spectacle. I don’t anticipate this church being around much longer. Source: Lutheran CORE Services receiving persons who are in same-sex sexual relationships as ELCA pastors have included attacks on the “bound consciences” of those who uphold Biblical teaching on sexual behavior. Even though […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/speaking-of-hijacking-the-language/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-homosexuality/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-homosexuality/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:35:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7845 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 a new posting on Fr. Peter-Michael Preble’s blog. The past few weeks have seen the number of young people being targeted for their homosexual identity then it has in years past. Recently TV personality Ellen Degeneris, herself a lesbian, posted a video about the bullying of people who are different then the rest of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-homosexuality/feed/ 6 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-homosexuality-parts-one-and-two/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-homosexuality-parts-one-and-two/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:34:58 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7324 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: Ancient Faith Radio Orthodoxy and Homosexuality, Part One In this podcast Steve references an article he wrote for AGAIN Magazine on the Orthodox Church and same sex attraction. In it he shares the results of several interviews with Orthodox men and women who shared their backgrounds and experiences as homosexuals before and after becoming […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-homosexuality-parts-one-and-two/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/london-1984/ https://www.aoiusa.org/london-1984/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 10:06:04 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6590 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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London Telegraph Frank Lockwood, religion editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: “It’s ironic, isn’t it, that the nation that gave us the King James Bible is now criminalizing the very kind of speech contained within the Scriptures.” ++++++++++++ A Christian street preacher was arrested and locked in a cell for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/london-1984/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/coptic-hierarch-takes-episcopalians-to-task/ https://www.aoiusa.org/coptic-hierarch-takes-episcopalians-to-task/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:18:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6526 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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HT: Byzantine TX Source: Virtue Online A Coptic Orthodox Church observer to the Fourth Global South to South Encounter ripped into the Episcopal Church, stunning some 130 archbishops, bishops, clergy and laity, urging them to say “no to ordination of homosexuals, no to gay marriage, no to such immorality, and that it is time to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/coptic-hierarch-takes-episcopalians-to-task/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/gene-robinson-joins-center-for-the-american-progress-same-outfit-pat-bartholomew-endorsed/ https://www.aoiusa.org/gene-robinson-joins-center-for-the-american-progress-same-outfit-pat-bartholomew-endorsed/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:47:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6193 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 Center for the American Progress is the organization that Patriarch Bartholomew endorsed during the Green Patriarch publicity offensive late last year. This George Soros funded institution started out as Hillary Clinton’s cabinet in waiting but was converted into a full-time think tank after her loss. Soros is reportedly still the major backer. ++++++++++ “Bishop […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/gene-robinson-joins-center-for-the-american-progress-same-outfit-pat-bartholomew-endorsed/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/steve-the-builder-orthodoxy-and-homosexuality-part-1/ https://www.aoiusa.org/steve-the-builder-orthodoxy-and-homosexuality-part-1/#comments Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:01:49 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6135 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 haven’t listened to it yet but usually Steve the Builder has very good material. In this podcast Steve references an article he wrote for AGAIN Magazine on the Orthodox Church and same sex attraction. In it he shares the results of several interviews with Orthodox men and women who shared their backgrounds and experiences […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/steve-the-builder-orthodoxy-and-homosexuality-part-1/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/lithuania-defies-eu-to-promote-family-values/ https://www.aoiusa.org/lithuania-defies-eu-to-promote-family-values/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:43:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5348 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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Some European nations are resisting the secularist and statist over-reaching of the EU bureaucracy. The article mentions the Russian Orthodox Church’s criticisms of EU cultural aggression and its overtures to the Roman Catholic Church in resisting it. Article from Mecator.net. ++++++++++++++++++++++ Sidestepping critics, Baltic nation strengthens family-friendly law on public information. Lithuania lawmakers ended their […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/lithuania-defies-eu-to-promote-family-values/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-isaiah-speaks-out-against-same-sex-marriage/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-isaiah-speaks-out-against-same-sex-marriage/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:20:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5296 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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Protocol 09–12 September 24, 2009 The Reverend Clergy, and The Pious Faithful of the Holy Metropolis of Denver Beloved in the Lord, Earlier this year I attended the 25th Anniversary Banquet of one of our parishes, and was invited to offer a few remarks before the final prayer, which I did. As I do at […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-isaiah-speaks-out-against-same-sex-marriage/feed/ 7