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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 Sat, 22 May 2010 01:16:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-bishops-are-coming-to-new-york-as-complex-diaspora-question-looms/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-bishops-are-coming-to-new-york-as-complex-diaspora-question-looms/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 01:09:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6728 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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Read closely. What are the greatest fears? The autocephaly of the OCA (wild card) and the Ligonier Council (precedent). The times are changing folks. The lumbering bureaucratic structures that have sublimated the nascent creativity and energy of American Orthodoxy under the weight Old World self-interest might be loosing their grip. There is more anxiety here […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-bishops-are-coming-to-new-york-as-complex-diaspora-question-looms/feed/ 82 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-sounds-of-silence/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-sounds-of-silence/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:42:17 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6315 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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A contributor who asked to remain anonymous sent me this piece earlier. It asks why we have not heard more about the Episcopal Assemblies being held next week. ++++++++++ Around six months ago, SCOBA issued a press release indicating that the first ever Episcopal Assembly for North America would take place during the Pentecostal season […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-sounds-of-silence/feed/ 53 https://www.aoiusa.org/before-the-manhattan-declaration-a-letter-from-americas-religious-leaders-in-defense-of-marriage/ https://www.aoiusa.org/before-the-manhattan-declaration-a-letter-from-americas-religious-leaders-in-defense-of-marriage/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:46:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5257 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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Given the vitriol, smug arrogance, and sectarian sentiment with which some Orthodox Christians have greeted Orthodox Christian participation in the Manhattan Declaration, let us review the 2006 letter below which was signed by Archbishop Demetrios and Metropolitan Herman. In fact — and this may be upsetting to some readers so brace yourself — Archbishop Demetrios […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/before-the-manhattan-declaration-a-letter-from-americas-religious-leaders-in-defense-of-marriage/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christian-laity-says-patriarch-bartholomew%e2%80%99s-remarks-to-scoba-boost-orthodox-unity-effort-in-america/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christian-laity-says-patriarch-bartholomew%e2%80%99s-remarks-to-scoba-boost-orthodox-unity-effort-in-america/#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:56:37 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4359 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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ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LAITY Press Release November 3, 2009 For more information contact: George Matsoukas 877-585-0245 Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL) described Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s remarks to the recently-held SCOBA (Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas) meeting held in New York City on October 27, 2009 “as another important step on the road to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christian-laity-says-patriarch-bartholomew%e2%80%99s-remarks-to-scoba-boost-orthodox-unity-effort-in-america/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomews-statement-on-scoba-meeting/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomews-statement-on-scoba-meeting/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:22:02 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4239 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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NEW YORK – His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew gave an audience yesterday Tuesday, Oct. 27, to the Orthodox Primates of the USA, most of whom were present the previous evening for the Ninth Annual Orthodox Prayer Service for the United Nations Community. Present at the audience were Archbishop Demetrios of America (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese); […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomews-statement-on-scoba-meeting/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/scoba-calls-first-episcopal-assembly-for-may-2010/ https://www.aoiusa.org/scoba-calls-first-episcopal-assembly-for-may-2010/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:19:31 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3651 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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SCOBA Hierarchs Convene For Special Session New York, NY – A Special Session of the Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) met on September 25, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., hosted by the Chairman of SCOBA, Archbishop Demetrios of America, at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/scoba-calls-first-episcopal-assembly-for-may-2010/feed/ 181 https://www.aoiusa.org/silent-bishops/ https://www.aoiusa.org/silent-bishops/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:55:15 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3430 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 his post “The Teaching Office of the Bishop,” Fr. Peter-Michael Preble wonders why Orthodox bishops have said so little about the current health care debate. Recently Dr. Bradley Nassif wrote an article entitled “The Calling of a Bishop is to Preach the Gospel” and this is a good start and a jump off point […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/silent-bishops/feed/ 10 https://www.aoiusa.org/ligonier-1994-a-new-era-has-begun/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ligonier-1994-a-new-era-has-begun/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:29:10 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=3364 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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Watch and listen as American Orthodox metropolitans and bishops make a case for administrative unity — 15 years ago. The Ligonier Meeting was a gathering of twenty-eight or twenty-nine Orthodox Christian hierarchs in North America, specifically those affiliated with SCOBA, held Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 1994, at Antiochian Village in Ligonier, Pa. In Part […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ligonier-1994-a-new-era-has-begun/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/memorial-day/ https://www.aoiusa.org/memorial-day/#respond Mon, 25 May 2009 16:22:12 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2334 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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Among Your saints give rest, O Christ, to the souls of Your servants, in a place where there is no pain, or sorrow, or grieving, but only life everlasting. Now and ever, and to the ages of ages. Amen. The American Battle Monuments Commission oversees 24 permanent American burial grounds on foreign soil in places […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/memorial-day/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christian-prison-ministry-announces-2009-convocation/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christian-prison-ministry-announces-2009-convocation/#respond Tue, 05 May 2009 16:23:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2057 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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OCPM sets the date for its 2009 meeting. The ministry brings “the light of Christ to those who are in prison in North America by providing encouragement, material support, transition and reintegration services, Christian education, spiritual guidance and the sacramental life of the Church to prisoners and their families.” Also see the February news in […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-christian-prison-ministry-announces-2009-convocation/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/e-pluribus-unum-one-church-from-many/ https://www.aoiusa.org/e-pluribus-unum-one-church-from-many/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:49:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1268 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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The American Orthodox Institute has published a new paper on Orthodox unity by George Michalopulos that examines the historical usage of the title “metropolitan,” the role of the metropolitan in Church administration, and the “crucial” pastoral duty defined in the Divine Liturgy as “rightly dividing the Word of [God’s] Truth.” In “E Pluribus Unum: One […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/e-pluribus-unum-one-church-from-many/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hopko-a-spiritual-springtime-for-american-orthodoxy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hopko-a-spiritual-springtime-for-american-orthodoxy/#respond Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:24:48 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=255 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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Fr. Thomas Hopko, an advisor to AOI, delivered an address in late September for the 40th Anniversary of the Consecration of the Chapel at the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration, a monastery for women in Ellwood City, Pa. Fr. Tom observes that while a “sprinkling” of Orthodox Christians in academic circles have been known to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hopko-a-spiritual-springtime-for-american-orthodoxy/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-a-fertile-faith/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-a-fertile-faith/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:31:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/2008/06/27/orthodoxy-a-fertile-faith/ 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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When a recent coffee hour conversation turned, unexpectedly, to politics and what if anything the Church has to say about public issues and then all of the “God talk” in the current presidential contest, a friend said, “Oh, that’s politics. The Orthodox Church shouldn’t get involved in politics. Nothing good can come of it.” Well, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodoxy-a-fertile-faith/feed/ 7