AOI – The American Orthodox Institute – USA

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  • E Pluribus Unum: One Church From Many?

    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…

  • Fr. Hopko: A Spiritual Springtime for American Orthodoxy

    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…

  • Orthodoxy: A Fertile Faith

    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,…