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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 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:08:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/rod-dreher-its-time-bishops-man-up/ https://www.aoiusa.org/rod-dreher-its-time-bishops-man-up/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:08:41 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11119 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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Earlier this year, there was a battle-royal raging among the elites of my church, the Orthodox Church in America, over the leadership style of Metropolitan Jonah, the primate. A number of the bishops on the Synod were plotting against him, along with some key and vocal activists associated with the OCA old guard. I involved […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/rod-dreher-its-time-bishops-man-up/feed/ 206 https://www.aoiusa.org/homily-at-the-funeral-of-bernard-n-nathanson/ https://www.aoiusa.org/homily-at-the-funeral-of-bernard-n-nathanson/#comments Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:10:17 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9339 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 first heard Dr. Bernard Nathanson speak over 25 years ago. I was very young and had just read his book “Aborting America.” There were probably not more than twenty people crowded into a room to hear this man who was one of the three founding members of the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/homily-at-the-funeral-of-bernard-n-nathanson/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-addresses-inter-christian-assembly-in-tulsa-oklahoma-video-audio/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-addresses-inter-christian-assembly-in-tulsa-oklahoma-video-audio/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:58:03 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8791 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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On November 5, 2010, His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah traveled to Grace Lutheran Church, in Tulsa Oklahoma, where he had been invited to speak on Orthodox Christian Spirituality. His talk, entitled “Do Not React, Do Not Resent, Keep Inner Stillness.” From the Holy Apostles Orthodox Church website: We were blessed to receive an archpastoral visit from […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-addresses-inter-christian-assembly-in-tulsa-oklahoma-video-audio/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/looks-like-jonah-is-serious-about-cleaning-house/ https://www.aoiusa.org/looks-like-jonah-is-serious-about-cleaning-house/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:31:38 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6043 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 don’t know the details of the conflict mentioned in the release below and don’t need to know. What is notable is the apology of a chief hierarch of the Church. Please, don’t post the details of the conflict. They will be deleted. Instead, be encouraged by Metropolitan Jonah’s frank apology. This is good leadership. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/looks-like-jonah-is-serious-about-cleaning-house/feed/ 17 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-to-address-2010-ancient-christianity-conference-may-14-16/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-to-address-2010-ancient-christianity-conference-may-14-16/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:42:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5764 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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ANNISTON, AL [OCA] — His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Ancient Christianity Conference at Saint Luke Mission here May 14-16, 2010. The conference, the theme of which is “Jesus Christ, the Great Physician,” will be sponsored by the Brotherhood of Saint Moses the Black, a pan-Orthodox, non-profit ministry devoted […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-to-address-2010-ancient-christianity-conference-may-14-16/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-on-orthodox-christian-unity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-on-orthodox-christian-unity/#respond Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:01:31 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4410 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 Orthodox Church in America’s communications department has published a summary of Metropolitan Jonah’s remarks at Orthodox Christian Laity’s recently concluded Road to Unity conference. Highlights: Central to the fabric of a united Church, Metropolitan Jonah added, is the need to “be missionary in every aspect of its existence, reaching out to bring the Gospel […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-on-orthodox-christian-unity/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/road-to-unity-the-a-word/ https://www.aoiusa.org/road-to-unity-the-a-word/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:26:34 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4291 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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Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette picks up Day Two of OCL’s Road to Unity Conference: Orthodox bishops in America are now free to use the A-word. That’s autocephaly — meaning a self-governing church that doesn’t answer to an authority overseas. America is now divided into overlapping ethnic jurisdictions, most of which answer to a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/road-to-unity-the-a-word/feed/ 22 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirills-birthday-greetings-to-metropolitan-jonah/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirills-birthday-greetings-to-metropolitan-jonah/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:25:17 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4037 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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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia congratulates the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America on his 50th birthday. Source: Moscow Patriarchate. Your Beatitude, Beloved Brother and Concelebrant in the Lord: I wholeheartedly greet and congratulate you on the your 50th birthday. On this day, I lift up an ardent prayer to God for […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirills-birthday-greetings-to-metropolitan-jonah/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/report-anglicans-and-oca-to-work-for-unity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/report-anglicans-and-oca-to-work-for-unity/#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:02:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3868 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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Update: (10/11) Ancient Faith Radio has the audio from, “In the Footsteps of Tikhon and Grafton – Anglican and Orthodox Identity, Ministry and Mission in the 21th Century,” the Anglican-Orthodox Conference featuring discussions and addresses by representatives of St. Vladimir’s Seminary and Nashotah House. Listen here. The History of Anglican/Orthodox Relations Fr. Stephen Platt moderated […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/report-anglicans-and-oca-to-work-for-unity/feed/ 31 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-one-thing-needful/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-one-thing-needful/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:02:47 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3331 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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Archpastoral Message of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah at the Beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year. September 1, 2009 To the Venerable Hierarchs, Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America The Lord said: The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-one-thing-needful/feed/ 6 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-word-for-parents/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-word-for-parents/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:07:39 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3060 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 Anti-Gnostic reports on a lecture given by Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America last night at Atlanta’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation. Asked what advice [Metropolitan Jonah] would give parish priests, he again quoted a Russian father who told parents to pray for their children ten times as much as they […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-word-for-parents/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-obamas-conscience-clause/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-obamas-conscience-clause/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:28:42 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3047 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 friend sent me an email earlier today. Search Google, he said, with the terms conscience rule obama catholic bishops and conscience rule obama orthodox bishops and then compare the two. Not very impressive. (Actually, the AOI blog article on Abp. Demetrios’ awkward praise of Pres. Obama ranks first in Google, but that’s beside the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-and-obamas-conscience-clause/feed/ 22 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-speaks-to-anglican-assembly/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-speaks-to-anglican-assembly/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:25:21 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2689 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 Anglican TV. Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America addresses The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) Assembly at St. Vincent’s Cathedral in Bedford, Texas, which was held June 21-25. The ACNA claims 100,000 Anglicans in 700 parishes with some 28 or more dioceses. It is bigger than the Anglican provinces of Wales […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-speaks-to-anglican-assembly/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-in-america-past-present-and-future/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-in-america-past-present-and-future/#respond Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:26:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2578 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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]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-in-america-past-present-and-future/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonahs-second-russian-interview-the-orthodox-church-is-most-firmly-opposed-to-the-spirit-of-the-world/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonahs-second-russian-interview-the-orthodox-church-is-most-firmly-opposed-to-the-spirit-of-the-world/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 20:56:31 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2137 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 an interview posted on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church (Patriarchia.ru) Metropolitan Jonah discussed the status of the autocephaly of the OCA and Constantinople’s denial of it, as well as offering some new ideas on the future of the OCA. The interview was conducted by journalist Yuri Pushcha. Highlight: Puscha: What outcomes […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonahs-second-russian-interview-the-orthodox-church-is-most-firmly-opposed-to-the-spirit-of-the-world/feed/ 16