Tag: Orthodox Church
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Dr. Peter Bouteneff: Speaking the truth in love
The faculty of St. Vladimir’s website will be posting occasional essays on topics of current events. In this essay, Dr. Peter Bouteneff, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, discusses ecumenical dialogue, particularly how different contexts and settings shape how discussion occurs. Dr. Bouteneff is a reader of the AOI blog and an occasional contributor. Source: St.…
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Fr. Preble: Duties to the State from a Romanian Orthodox Church Perspective
Fr. Peter-Michael Preble has this article published recently on Ethics Daily. Fr. Peter blogs at Shepherd of Souls, and Fr. Peter-Michael Preble. He hosts the Shepherd of Souls podcast on Ancient Faith Radio. I have a Scripture reading system in which I read first from the Gospels and then from the Epistles. I read this…
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Ground Zero as Metaphor: A Crossroads for America and Orthodoxy?
George C. Michalopulos looks at the American socio/cultural landscape and sees parallels between the conflicts in the culture with conflicts in the Church. Two competing narratives function in the American Orthodox Church — the missionary narrative that goes back to the missionary monks who brought the Gospel to Alaska, and the colonial subjugation narrative by…
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Chaplains in no-win situation on ‘don’t ask’
From the article: Confronted with such a dim future, many chaplains might retire early, resign their commissions in protest, or decline to serve in the first place. More drastically, the bishops, boards or other religious judicatories whose approval is indispensable for clergy to be commissioned as officers might withdraw their official endorsements and pull their…
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George Patsourakos: Get St. Nicholas rebuilt!
“New York state and its Port Authority officials need to hang their heads in shame,” says George Patsourakos, on his blog Theology and Society. Patsourakos, a regular commentator on the AOI blog writes: The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center — attacks by extremist Muslims — resulted in the deaths of…