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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 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:41:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:44:26 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4486 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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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2qq5J5A1s[/youtube] Twenty years ago today. The following is from “The Origin of Russian Communism” by Nicholas Berdyaev (published by Geoffrey Bles, 1937): Marxism is not only a doctrine of historical and economic materialism, concerned with the complete dependence of man on economics, it is also a doctrine of deliverance, of the messianic vocation of the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/freedom-loving-orthodoxy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/freedom-loving-orthodoxy/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:29:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=70 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 May 2008 issue of The Word,* published by the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, Gregory Cook looks at the ways Orthodox Christianity may “transfigure” America. “Orthodoxy has always been open to building on what is true and extant in any nation or culture,” Cook writes. “America should be no different.” *Also […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/freedom-loving-orthodoxy/feed/ 23 https://www.aoiusa.org/independence-day/ https://www.aoiusa.org/independence-day/#respond Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:19:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=66 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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Thoughts on freedom as we approach the celebration of another Independence Day: From the beginning the Creator allowed human beings their freedom and a free will; they were bound only by the law of his commandment. St. Gregory the Theologian (Orations 14.25 [“On Caring for the Poor”], PG 35:892A) Freedom means being one’s own master […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/independence-day/feed/ 0