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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 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:20:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/jacques-berlinerblau-secular-america-wins/ https://www.aoiusa.org/jacques-berlinerblau-secular-america-wins/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:08:09 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12370 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 could go through this article point by point and how how a materialist, non-sacramental worldview shapes how a person sees culture and politics. I am not going to do that. Instead, read through the article to understand how a person committed to radical secularism interprets the Obama victory. It’s a revealing and, in its […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/jacques-berlinerblau-secular-america-wins/feed/ 6 https://www.aoiusa.org/islam-and-the-closing-of-the-secular-mind/ https://www.aoiusa.org/islam-and-the-closing-of-the-secular-mind/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:42:12 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12220 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 Spectator By Samuel Gregg The “enlightened” Western mind can no longer think seriously or coherently about religion. Given the decidedly strange response of the Obama Administration and much of the Western commentariat to the violence sweeping the Islamic world, one temptation is to view their reaction as simple incomprehension in the face […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/islam-and-the-closing-of-the-secular-mind/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-limits-of-secularism/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-limits-of-secularism/#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:20:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11277 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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An outsanding analysis by the Chief Rabbi of England Lord Sacks. Some highlights: In 1997…I argued that the world had moved on since (Isaiah) Berlin’s great 1957 lecture “Two Concepts of Liberty” (.pdf), and that the threat to liberty was now different: not totalitarianism but rather the internal moral decay of free societies. So there […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-limits-of-secularism/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-and-catholics-face-the-same-challenges/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-and-catholics-face-the-same-challenges/#respond Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:16:32 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11204 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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Making common cause against secularism and other maladies of the modern era with the Catholic Church is a wise course. The Russian Orthodox Church approves (see my articles on Catholic Online). But how will Constantinople respond? Below is a press release where Pope Benedict sounds the same theme in a message to Pat. Bartholomew of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orthodox-and-catholics-face-the-same-challenges/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/with-the-rise-of-militant-secularism-rome-and-moscow-make-common-cause/ https://www.aoiusa.org/with-the-rise-of-militant-secularism-rome-and-moscow-make-common-cause/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:05:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11121 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 Acton Institute just published my essay. Source: Acton Institute | Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse The European religious press is abuzz over recent developments in Orthodox – Catholic relations that indicate both Churches are moving closer together. The diplomatic centerpiece of the activity would be a meeting of Pope Benedict and Patriarch Kyrill of the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/with-the-rise-of-militant-secularism-rome-and-moscow-make-common-cause/feed/ 25 https://www.aoiusa.org/new-european-union-school-calendar-omits-christian-holidays/ https://www.aoiusa.org/new-european-union-school-calendar-omits-christian-holidays/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:16:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8836 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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So we are supposed to believe that omitting the Christian holidays was a mistake? Source: Catholic News Agency | HT: Monomakhos Strasbourg, France, Jan 14, 2011 / 02:11 pm (CNA).- A 2011-2012 school calendar published by the European Union has omitted Christian holidays, while continuing to note important Jewish and Muslim celebrations. The European Union […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/new-european-union-school-calendar-omits-christian-holidays/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/8241/ https://www.aoiusa.org/8241/#comments Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:25:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8241 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 Spectator George Soros has donated $1 million to a campaign to legalise cannabis in California. The Guardian reports (see here for a comment): The cash infusion, one week before Californians vote on a measure that would let anyone over 21 grow and possess up to an ounce of marijuana and allow local councils […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/8241/feed/ 13 https://www.aoiusa.org/norm-of-faith-as-norm-of-life/ https://www.aoiusa.org/norm-of-faith-as-norm-of-life/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 20:41:47 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6760 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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This essay is outstanding. It represents the quality of thought that should be coming from all Orthodox Churches; the words that speak to the foundational questions of culture as I wrote yesterday. Frankly, the Orthodox in America are capable of contributions of this depth and importance. I have my doubts however, that Constantinople will ever […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/norm-of-faith-as-norm-of-life/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-culture-is-at-risk-of-becoming-anti-culture-without-the-church/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-culture-is-at-risk-of-becoming-anti-culture-without-the-church/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:02:43 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6079 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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Brilliant! Met. Hilarion’s warning deals with what Nietzsche called the “transvaluation of values” — what his dark prophesy warned would happen in the West because “God is Dead,” by which he meant that Western culture was entering into a period where it functioned within the cultural structures shaped by Christianity but without concrete, existential communion […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-hilarion-of-volokolamsk-culture-is-at-risk-of-becoming-anti-culture-without-the-church/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-chad-hatfield-the-manhattan-declaration/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-chad-hatfield-the-manhattan-declaration/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:47:59 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5902 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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Ancient Faith Radio Fr. Chad Hatfield, discusses The Manhattan Declaration, “a call of Christian conscience” that he helped produce, and defends Orthodox participation in such cultural manifestos. Listen here:]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-chad-hatfield-the-manhattan-declaration/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/vanishing-christianity-%e2%80%94-a-lesson-from-the-presbyterians/ https://www.aoiusa.org/vanishing-christianity-%e2%80%94-a-lesson-from-the-presbyterians/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:54:41 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5849 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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AlbertMohler.com “Liberal Protestantism, in its determined policy of accommodation with the secular world, has succeeded in making itself dispensable.” That was the judgment of Thomas C. Reeves in The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Protestantism, published in 1996. Fast-forward another fourteen years and it becomes increasingly clear that liberal Protestantism continues its suicide — […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/vanishing-christianity-%e2%80%94-a-lesson-from-the-presbyterians/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/ https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:36:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5843 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’ve been asked to become an Orthodox columnist on Catholic.org and accepted. Below is my first essay. Regular readers will notice ideas we discussed on the AOI Observer. +++++++++++++++++ Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) NAPLES, FL. (Catholic Online) – Over four decades ago Pope John Paul II said that the restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church was […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/patriarch-kirill-pope-benedict-a-tale-of-two-leaders-for-a-new-missionary-age/feed/ 33 https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-the-church-has-been-granted-the-primate-required-by-our-troubled-time/ https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-the-church-has-been-granted-the-primate-required-by-our-troubled-time/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:31:56 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5685 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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Compare the vision expressed below with recurring missteps like Orphangate, the uncritical embrace of global warming activism, assertions of ethnic supremacy (Hellenism uber alles?), the flattering of politicians, and the like and ask yourself: –Who really gets it? –Who has the better grasp of the crisis in Western culture? –Who really comprehends that any resolution […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-the-church-has-been-granted-the-primate-required-by-our-troubled-time/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-opens-seminary-in-france/ https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-opens-seminary-in-france/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:05:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5374 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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H/T: Byzantine, TX The Russian Orthodox Church has opened its first seminary outside the former Soviet Union – in a small French town outside Paris. The institution is starting modestly but has big ambitions: to serve Russia’s growing diaspora and foster closer ties between Eastern and Western Christian churches. It is a bitterly cold afternoon, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/russian-orthodox-church-opens-seminary-in-france/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/europe-spiritual-homeland/ https://www.aoiusa.org/europe-spiritual-homeland/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:32:05 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5070 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 “For Rome and Moscow, It’s Spring Again,” Sandro Magister on Chiesa looks at the book, in Italian and Russian, presented to Pope Benedict recently by Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk. It is a collection of the main speeches of Benedict, as cardinal and pope, on European culture made over the past ten years. The title […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/europe-spiritual-homeland/feed/ 13