Tag: Politics
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Culture Wars: Fr. Jacobse on Ancient Faith Radio
Kevin Allen, host of Ancient Faith Radio’s Illumined Heart program, interviews AOI President Fr. Hans Jacobse for a fascinating discussion on “The Culture War and Orthodox Christianity.” Fr. Hans talks about the need for Eastern Orthodox Christians to engage in the moral and social debates — call them Culture Wars if you will — that…
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Fr. Neuhaus’ review of ‘The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right’
The Wall Street Journal this week published the late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus’ review of “The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right” by Jon Shields. In the review, Fr. Neuhaus gives Shields, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College, high marks for “an excruciatingly careful study, studded with the expected graphs and statistical data—but not…
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Disarray, Disunity and the Metropolitans
AOI has published an article by George C Michalopulos titled “The Role of Metropolitan and Its Relationship within the Episcopate: A Reappraisal.” This original work looks at the historical antecedents of the office of the Metropolitan from early Christianity to today. Along the way, we discover that although the office arose out of the episkopos…
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Greece: No Faith in Ourselves
Writing for the Foreign Policy Research Institute on Dec. 19, Cornelia A. Tsakiridou rightly points to the breakdown of the rule of law as one of the most deplorable outcomes of these riots. Tsakiridou is Associate Professor and Director of the Diplomat-in-Residence Program at La Salle University. The spectacle of young people (and assorted criminals,…