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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 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:45:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/alexander-tsiaras-conception-to-birth-visualized/ https://www.aoiusa.org/alexander-tsiaras-conception-to-birth-visualized/#respond Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:45:07 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11584 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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Tell me this is not a miracle, and I’ll respond that your vision is truncated. From the filmmaker: The mathematical complexity of how these things are done [the rapid development of the child in the womb] are beyond human comprehension, and even though I am a mathematician I look at this with a marvel; how […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/alexander-tsiaras-conception-to-birth-visualized/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/benjamin-peck-speak-my-name/ https://www.aoiusa.org/benjamin-peck-speak-my-name/#respond Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:29:17 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11351 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 am always encouraged whenever I read or hear young people who are serious about Christ. Below is a sermon written by Benjamin Peck, a freshman at Holy Cross College that he gave at the Festival of Young Preachers conference sponsored by the Academy of Preachers in January, 2012. (Learn more about the festival here.) […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/benjamin-peck-speak-my-name/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/wnd-bonhoeffer-in-harlem/ https://www.aoiusa.org/wnd-bonhoeffer-in-harlem/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:39:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=11186 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 I attended seminary over 20 years ago, one of my favorite activities was the inter-seminary dialogues. Once a month about seven or eight of us would drive down to Jewish Theological Seminary in Manhattan to meet up with Jewish rabbinical students and seminarians from Union Theological Seminary (Protestant) and St. Joseph’s (Catholic). You’d think […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/wnd-bonhoeffer-in-harlem/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-hymn-to-the-lesser-good/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-hymn-to-the-lesser-good/#respond Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:41:23 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10238 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: Holy Trinity Cathedral By Archbishop John (Shahovskoy) of San Francisco Many people believe that to live according to the faith and to fulfill the will of God is very difficult. Actually — it’s very easy. One needs only attend to details, to trifles, and try to avoid evil in the slightest and most trivial […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-hymn-to-the-lesser-good/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-do-not-resent-do-not-react-keep-inner-stillness/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-do-not-resent-do-not-react-keep-inner-stillness/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:07:34 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10133 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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Wisdom from the experience of a true pastor. The piece is a bit long but once you start you will want to complete because it covers matters of the heart that all serious Christians struggle with. When I was in seminary I had the great blessing of becoming the spiritual son of a Greek bishop, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-do-not-resent-do-not-react-keep-inner-stillness/feed/ 17 https://www.aoiusa.org/osama-is-dead-now-what-should-i-feel/ https://www.aoiusa.org/osama-is-dead-now-what-should-i-feel/#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 23:52:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9929 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: OrthodoxyToday.org Last night, like most of the world, I was captivated by the announcement that the President of the United States would be making a statement at 10:30 p.m. As I Tweeted this information, I added the line that this could not be good. Presidents do not often come on at 10:30 on a […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/osama-is-dead-now-what-should-i-feel/feed/ 19 https://www.aoiusa.org/humility-prudence-and-earth-day/ https://www.aoiusa.org/humility-prudence-and-earth-day/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:22:35 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9814 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: Acton Institute | John Couretas At a World Council of Churches conference last year on the French-Swiss border, much was made of the “likelihood of mass population displacement” driven by climate change and the mass migration of people fleeing zones inundated by rising seas. While the WCC acknowledged that “there are no solid estimates” […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/humility-prudence-and-earth-day/feed/ 5 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-life-is-given-for-us-to-exercise-in-virtue/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-life-is-given-for-us-to-exercise-in-virtue/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:09:11 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9694 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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Homily on the Sunday of St. John Climacus, author of The Ladder of Divine Ascent. Source: Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church This book was written in the 7th century for the monks on Mount Sinai, but it is still relevant today. It presents the entire spiritual life of a Christian […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-life-is-given-for-us-to-exercise-in-virtue/feed/ 3 https://www.aoiusa.org/what-to-believe-the-soul-searching-personal-journeys-of-bart-ehrman-james-berends-video/ https://www.aoiusa.org/what-to-believe-the-soul-searching-personal-journeys-of-bart-ehrman-james-berends-video/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:00:05 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9192 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: Orthodox Christian Fellowship Press release of the talk yesterday evening (February 17, 2011) and archived below. CHAPEL HILL, NC – FEBRUARY 4, 2011 — The New York Times best-selling author Bart Ehrman and Eastern Orthodox priest James Berends will give a free public presentation at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 17, at the FedEx […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/what-to-believe-the-soul-searching-personal-journeys-of-bart-ehrman-james-berends-video/feed/ 12 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hopko-10-essential-conditions-for-coming-to-know-god%e2%80%99s-truth-and-finding-life/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hopko-10-essential-conditions-for-coming-to-know-god%e2%80%99s-truth-and-finding-life/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:24:36 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9082 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 Fr. Thomas Hopko   1. The belief that the truth of things can be known, and the desire to know the truth and to do it, wherever it leads, is most essential. Indeed it is everything. When people have this desire and seek truth in order to do it, and are ready to do […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-hopko-10-essential-conditions-for-coming-to-know-god%e2%80%99s-truth-and-finding-life/feed/ 13 https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jenson-stewardship-and-the-human-vocation-to-work/ https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jenson-stewardship-and-the-human-vocation-to-work/#respond Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:50:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9050 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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Acton Institute | Fr. Gregory Jenson Paying the bills and contributing to the collection basket are laudable. But Christian stewardship is significantly more than these; like prayer, fasting, and the sacraments, it is an essential part of our Christian life. More than what we say, the way we use our time, talent and treasure, reveals […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/fr-jenson-stewardship-and-the-human-vocation-to-work/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/why-women-were-never-priests/ https://www.aoiusa.org/why-women-were-never-priests/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:18:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9006 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: Preachers Institute | Alice C. Linsley From Preachers Institute: A convert to Orthodoxy from the Episcopal Church, Ms. Linsley renounced her priestly office in March 2004. She left the Episcopal ministry on the Sunday that Gene Robinson was consecrated and has not entered an Episcopal church since. After years of studying the question of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/why-women-were-never-priests/feed/ 24 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-unbelief-is-spiritual-blindness/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-unbelief-is-spiritual-blindness/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:57:20 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8994 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: Russian Orthodox Church, Department of External Church Relations Dear Brothers and Sisters, today we heard during the Gospel Reading the story of how the Lord Jesus Christ healed a blind man who was sitting at roadside, asking for salvation and healing. The Lord said to him, Go, your faith has healed you (Mk. 10:51-52). […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-hilarion-unbelief-is-spiritual-blindness/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-addresses-inter-christian-assembly-in-tulsa-oklahoma-video-audio/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-addresses-inter-christian-assembly-in-tulsa-oklahoma-video-audio/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:58:03 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=8791 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 November 5, 2010, His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah traveled to Grace Lutheran Church, in Tulsa Oklahoma, where he had been invited to speak on Orthodox Christian Spirituality. His talk, entitled “Do Not React, Do Not Resent, Keep Inner Stillness.” From the Holy Apostles Orthodox Church website: We were blessed to receive an archpastoral visit from […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-addresses-inter-christian-assembly-in-tulsa-oklahoma-video-audio/feed/ 1 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