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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, 24 Oct 2013 13:30:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/an-eastern-orthodox-case-for-property-rights/ https://www.aoiusa.org/an-eastern-orthodox-case-for-property-rights/#comments Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:27:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=13066 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. Jensen: …[P]roperty rights are not a panacea – protecting and enhancing private ownership will not cure all that ails us personally or socially. Nor can we separate the exercise of our right to property from the moral law or, for Christians, the Gospel. But Orthodox social thought does I think allow us to make […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/an-eastern-orthodox-case-for-property-rights/feed/ 13 https://www.aoiusa.org/saint-john-chrysostom-and-21st-century-christians/ https://www.aoiusa.org/saint-john-chrysostom-and-21st-century-christians/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:11:21 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7694 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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Taken from a lecture by Fr. Josiah Trenham and republished on Mystagogy. From Mystagogy: [The following portion of a lecture (all of which I recommend to be read) delivered by the Very Reverend Josiah Trenham in 2007 I found to be a very edifying piece on how Christians can implement at least some of the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/saint-john-chrysostom-and-21st-century-christians/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/memo-to-jim-wallis-christ-is-not-a-crypto-communistsocialist/ https://www.aoiusa.org/memo-to-jim-wallis-christ-is-not-a-crypto-communistsocialist/#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:48:20 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7663 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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Anthony posted this in the comments but it is so good I am posting it here. Source: On Living Simply: The Golden Voice of John Chrysostom St. John Chrysostom: Should we look to kings and princes to put right the inequalities between rich and poor? Should we require soldiers to come and seize the rich […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/memo-to-jim-wallis-christ-is-not-a-crypto-communistsocialist/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/st-john-chrysostom-on-fasting/ https://www.aoiusa.org/st-john-chrysostom-on-fasting/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:42:26 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5947 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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DO YOU FAST? Do you fast? Give me proof of it by your works. If you see a poor man, take pity on him. If you see a friend being honored, do not envy him. Do not let only your mouth fast, but also the eye and the ear and the feet and the hands […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/st-john-chrysostom-on-fasting/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/on-enduring-scandals-in-faith/ https://www.aoiusa.org/on-enduring-scandals-in-faith/#respond Fri, 01 May 2009 18:15:49 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2022 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 is an excerpt from a lecture given by Fr. Josiah Trenham at a Men’s Retreat in Victoria, Kansas on March 14, 2009. HT: Orthodox News St. John Chrysostom wrote a penetrating treatise entitled On the Providence of God while he himself was in the midst of a crucible of personal suffering. He had been […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/on-enduring-scandals-in-faith/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonahs-2009-lenten-message/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonahs-2009-lenten-message/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:20:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1168 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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On Feb. 28, Metropolitan Jonah, the head of the Orthodox Church in America, posted the following message: Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! To the Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy, Monastics and Faithful of the Orthodox Church in America Dearly Beloved in the Lord: Christ is in our midst! Our Church has […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonahs-2009-lenten-message/feed/ 8