Tag: Orthodox Church
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On Contemporary Narrow Mindedness in Orthodoxy
Source: Mystagogy By Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of Diokleia Alas, the element of nationalism, of ethnic narrowness, is a fact that we can see very widely in the contemporary Orthodox Church. And it has of course deep historical roots. It is not only a problem of today. Phyletism, setting nationalism above Orthodox catholicity, was defined as…
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The Left’s sloppy thinking concerning the defense of human life
Source: Wintery Knight Secular leftists (as well as many religious leftists) hold the views they do not because the views are internally coherent, but because they they fear being ostracized by their peers for holding conservative opinions. Moral posturing — holding politically correct viewpoints — is more important than clear thinking in the secularist canon.…
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Met. Hilarion Confident Pan-Orthodox Synod will Resume in “Near Future”
Source: Russian Orthodox Church Department for External Church Relations Your Eminence! You have recently led a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church at the meeting of the Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission held in Chambesy near Geneva. Which questions did you discuss? The Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission is a working body which prepares the Holy and Great Council…
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EP Fast Track? Homily of Met. Elpidophoros of Proussa at His Ordination
Readers will remember that Met. Elpidophoros gave the controversial speech at Holy Cross a few years back extolling the virtues of Constantinople and castigating America for ignoring it (see: Ecumenical Patriarchate: American ‘Diaspora’ must submit to Mother Church). It didn’t go over well at all. The next year he was invited to St. Vladimir’s Seminary…
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How Do We Comprehend Natural Disasters Like Earthquakes and Tsunamis?
This essay below that Fr. David Hudson sent along is timely. I have a small parish now which means that after the Divine Liturgy we always have a discussion about any topic that people want to talk about. Today we had the question: How do we make sense of the tsunami in Japan? It wasn’t…