Tag: Media
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Maddex to lead Conciliar Media Ministries
Congratulations to John Maddex, the guiding light at Ancient Faith Radio, who was named president and chief executive officer of Conciliar Media Ministries. Maddex assumes responsibility for Conciliar Press, Conciliar’s publishing company, while continuing to serve as general manager of Ancient Faith Radio, Conciliar’s online radio and podcast ministry. Conciliar is the publishing and online…
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AOI debuts new website for “The Clarion Review”
Clarion Review launches all-new Web site with new content Turning Cows into IdeasRoger Scruton, philosopher & farmer, tells us how to make farms profitable even if no one buys a thing: Very few farms are profitable, and ours exists more…as a rural consultancy and ideas factory. Our neighbors turn grass into milk and make a…
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Egypt’s Copts the ‘New Martyrs’?
Perilous times for Egypt’s Christian community. In “Egypt’s Coptic Christians Are Choosing Isolation,” the Washington Post reports that “the most populous Christian community in the Middle East is seeking safety by turning inward, cutting day-to-day social ties that have bound Muslim to Christian in Egypt for centuries.” The story notes a dramatic decline in of…
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The Tithe of the Year
In his latest podcast on Ancient Faith Radio, Fr. Thomas Hopko looks at Great Lent as the “tithe of the year,” during which believers try to be what they ought always to be. Fr. Tom, an advisor to AOI, shares his Lenten maxims, the things a believer would do if they were really a believer…
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The Real Byzantium?
In late January, Russian television showed “The Fall of an Empire: The Lessons of Byzantium,” a film by Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov. The film has sparked a controversy in Russia about the role that the West played in the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, whether modern Russia faces similar dangers, and whether the Russian Orthodox Church…