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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 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:16:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/is-religious-freedom-in-peril/ https://www.aoiusa.org/is-religious-freedom-in-peril/#comments Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:04:00 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=13117 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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Last night syndicated columnist Terry Mattingly and myself (Fr. Hans Jacobse) discussed where religious freedom in America was under assault. The discussion was, I believe, informative. I was very impressed with Mattingly’s comprehensive knowledge and analysis of the legal challenges concerning religious liberty. The discussion focused on the moral issues, particularly gay rights, as the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/is-religious-freedom-in-peril/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/terry-mattingly-did-the-leader-of-the-orthodox-attend-the-rome-rites-video/ https://www.aoiusa.org/terry-mattingly-did-the-leader-of-the-orthodox-attend-the-rome-rites-video/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 02:02:18 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12636 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: Patheos | Terry Mattingly So, let’s assume that you are a Catholic leader and you pick up your morning newspaper and it contains a story in which Pope Francis is described as “a leader” of the world’s Catholic Christians. What would you think? Is the phrase “a leader” — implying one among many equals […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/terry-mattingly-did-the-leader-of-the-orthodox-attend-the-rome-rites-video/feed/ 11 https://www.aoiusa.org/covering-warfare-in-a-byzantine-maze-literally/ https://www.aoiusa.org/covering-warfare-in-a-byzantine-maze-literally/#comments Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:54:32 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12013 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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Terry Mattingly’s advice for journalists about the coup in the OCA. A key quote: Of course, it is “politics” when an Orthodox leader defends the church’s doctrines in public. It is not “politics” when liberal activists inside the church work to silence the voice of the church, while quietly lobbying in seminaries and elsewhere to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/covering-warfare-in-a-byzantine-maze-literally/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-pope-benedict-president-obama-and-religious-freedom/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-pope-benedict-president-obama-and-religious-freedom/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:36:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11402 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 Republic | Terry Mattingly Pope Benedict XVI cut to the chase when meeting with the visiting bishops from Washington, D.C., Baltimore and the U.S. armed services. The pope mentioned “religious freedom” in the third sentence of his Jan. 19 remarks at the Vatican and he never let up — returning to this […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-pope-benedict-president-obama-and-religious-freedom/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-orthodox-bridge-to-the-evangelical-world/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-orthodox-bridge-to-the-evangelical-world/#respond Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:12:56 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10135 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 Republic | Terry Mattingly As point man for Russian Orthodox relations with other faith groups, Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev is used to talking shop with Catholics, Anglicans, leaders in older brands of Protestantism and other world religions. These duties have long been part of his job description. Meeting with leaders from the world’s booming […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-orthodox-bridge-to-the-evangelical-world/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-dont-ask-policy-puts-chaplains-in-vise/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-dont-ask-policy-puts-chaplains-in-vise/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:14:55 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8123 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 Republic The setting: The office of a priest who serves as a military chaplain. The time: This hypothetical encounter occurs soon after the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that forbids gays, lesbians and bisexuals to openly serve in America’s armed forces. The scene: An officer requests counseling about tensions with […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-dont-ask-policy-puts-chaplains-in-vise/feed/ 19 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-shocking-words-to-the-presbyterians/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-shocking-words-to-the-presbyterians/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:16:33 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7276 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 Republic Anyone who attends one of the national church assemblies that dot the calendar every summer knows that they are highly ritualized affairs. Officers will be elected. Political issues will be discussed. Lofty resolutions will be passed. At least one long business session will include a proposal about clergy benefits and salaries. […] […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-shocking-words-to-the-presbyterians/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-fr-siarhei-hardun-the-presbyterian-assembly-and-the-press/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-fr-siarhei-hardun-the-presbyterian-assembly-and-the-press/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:25:46 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7225 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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Journalist Terry Mattingly edits the blog “Get Religion” which examines religion in the media. The blog is a great read and worth a (repeating) look. A few excepts from Mattingly’s commentary on Fr. Hardun’s recent comments at the Presbyterian assembly (see: MINNEAPOLIS: Presbyterian gay measures criticized by visiting (Orthodox) priest): As you would expect, the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-fr-siarhei-hardun-the-presbyterian-assembly-and-the-press/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-the-orthodox-question-for-2010/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-the-orthodox-question-for-2010/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:26:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6907 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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By TERRY MATTINGLY – Scripps Howard News Service | tmatt.net The first Orthodox missionaries to reach Alaska traveled with the early Russian explorers and, in 1794, a party of monks established the Orthodox Christian Mission to America. […] “Before the 1920s, there was only one jurisdiction in North America — that of the Russian Orthodox […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-the-orthodox-question-for-2010/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/engelhardt-on-the-manhattan-declaration/ https://www.aoiusa.org/engelhardt-on-the-manhattan-declaration/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:06:54 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4994 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 a new column, published in the San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times, Terry Mattingly talks to H. Tristram Engelhardt about the Manhattan Declaration. Englehardt is the author of “The Foundations of Bioethics” (M & M Scrivener Press, 2000). While nothing in the Manhattan Declaration is truly new, arguments about its call for civil disobedience will help […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/engelhardt-on-the-manhattan-declaration/feed/ 12 https://www.aoiusa.org/ukrainian-church-rent-by-divisions/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ukrainian-church-rent-by-divisions/#respond Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:58:43 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2429 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 the Get Relgion blog, Terry Mattingly describes a trip he made to Kiev to speak to Ukrainian journalists “about the challenges of covering religion news in mainstream press.” He looks at the divisions among Orthodox Churches in the Ukraine, which is set against the long running antagonisms that exist between that country and Russia. […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ukrainian-church-rent-by-divisions/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-pews-changes-in-religious-affiliation-survey/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-pews-changes-in-religious-affiliation-survey/#respond Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:32:43 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1997 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 new “Changes in Religious Affiliation in the U.S.” survey released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life yesterday is getting a lot of coverage in the mainstream and religious press. The survey looks mostly at Catholic and Protestant “fluidity of religious affiliation in the U.S. and describes in detail the patterns and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-pews-changes-in-religious-affiliation-survey/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-met-jonah/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-met-jonah/#respond Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:52:36 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=587 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 “Orthodox bishop on hot spot,” Terry Mattingly looks at the improbable rise of Metropolitan Jonah — in the span of about 10 days — from newly consecrated assistant bishop of Dallas to head of the Orthodox Church in America. Snip: If nationwide change is going to happen, said Jonah, it will have to grow […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-met-jonah/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-culture-wars-2008/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-culture-wars-2008/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:01:39 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=226 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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Terry Mattingly looks at the most recent battles, from the left and the right: If you could erase one moment from Sen. Barack Obama’s White House campaign, which would you choose? That’s an easy question for evangelicals, Catholics and other religious believers who back Obama. Most would happily erase all evidence of his speech last […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-culture-wars-2008/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-fr-john-peck/ https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-fr-john-peck/#respond Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:05:42 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=174 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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Update (10/13/08): The complete, unedited column is now available on Terry Mattingly’s site under the title, “Beyond Orthodox folk dancing.” (10/11/08): Religion writer Terry Mattingly has a column in today’s Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera newspaper that is a must read. He looks at the controversy surrounding the publication of Fr. John Peck’s “The Orthodox Church […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/mattingly-on-fr-john-peck/feed/ 0