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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 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:48:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/eastern-right-conservative-minds-convert-to-orthodox-christianity/ https://www.aoiusa.org/eastern-right-conservative-minds-convert-to-orthodox-christianity/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:47:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11834 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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Source: The American Conservative | By Rod Dreher – Since the Second World War, Roman Catholicism has had enormous influence on American intellectual conservatism. The postwar rebirth of conservatism had two sources: libertarianism—a reassertion of classical liberalism against statism—and cultural traditionalism. For Russell Kirk and other leading traditionalists of the era, the Roman Catholic church, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/eastern-right-conservative-minds-convert-to-orthodox-christianity/feed/ 13 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/rod-dreher-whats-so-appealing-about-orthodoxy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/rod-dreher-whats-so-appealing-about-orthodoxy/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:54:50 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9517 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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Source: Washington Post I came to Orthodoxy in 2006, a broken man. I had been a devoutly observant and convinced Roman Catholic for years, but had my faith shattered in large part by what I had learned as a reporter covering the sex abuse scandal. It had been my assumption that my theological convictions would […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/rod-dreher-whats-so-appealing-about-orthodoxy/feed/ 18 https://www.aoiusa.org/rod-dreher-how-to-govern-a-church-a-case-study/ https://www.aoiusa.org/rod-dreher-how-to-govern-a-church-a-case-study/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:16:49 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6178 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 want to contrast the way the institutional Catholic Church is struggling to deal with its problem bishops, versus the way the Orthodox Church in America (my church) has done it recently. It shouldn’t be necessary to say this, but I probably need to: this is not an argument for why Orthodoxy is more true […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/rod-dreher-how-to-govern-a-church-a-case-study/feed/ 21