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May 11, 2012
Lessons from Byzantium
The empire fell but did not have to.
May 10, 2012
The Ecumenical Patriarch is Right
Turkish nationalism and the persecution of religious minorities.
The Joy of Literature
Man is a story teller.
An Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
West meets East.
March 17, 2012
How Church Helped Sign Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn Dodgers
Religion shapes culture one courageous decision at a time..
March 16, 2012
The Party’s Over
Mary Eberstadt on men, women, and what the sexual revolution has wrought
March 15, 2012
Church and Reich
What happened to Christian under the Nazi Regime? The traditionalists went to concentration camps, many fell away and adopted the Nazi neo-paganism, and some clergy actively supported the Third Reich.
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism—the New American Religion
Study: American teenagers...are virtually unable to offer any serious theological understanding.
Beware of the Petty Totalitarian Left
State encroachment into private life always starts small.
Conscience Objections and Religious Liberty
The logic of Obama's HHS mandates portends danger down the road if not reversed.
January 12, 2012
Has Europe Lost Its Soul?
The religious roots of the market economy and of democratic capitalism...were produced by a culture saturated in the values of the Judaeo-Christian heritage, and market economics was originally intended to advance those values.
Defending Intelligent Design
"This whole Darwinian story, it seems to me, has been very much oversold," says Phillip Johnson. "It is an imaginative story that has been spun on the basis of very little evidence."
December 31, 2011
Philosophy and Contentment in the Age of Radical Skepticism
"We have reached a point in Western history when common sense and our instinct for survival force us to ask: Can an entire age be spiritually and morally sick?"
What Brings a World Into Being?
How does the information latent in the fundamental laws of physics unfold itself to become a world? Apparently is just does.
December 28, 2011
Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness
Evolutionists can't explain the purpose of organisms.
Political Discourse and Impugning Motives
"The tendency to attack motivations … is frequently a sign of intellectual laziness.”
December 26, 2011
An Upside-Down Family Tree
"The problem with the advanced West is not that it's broke but that it's old and barren."
December 24, 2011
The Limits of Secularism
A society without faith is like one without art, beauty or grace, and no society without faith can endure for long.
October 13, 2011
Free Market Sweden, Social Democratic America
Two historic countries, moving in opposite -- and unexpected -- directions.
October 11, 2011
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, the New World Order, and Our longing for Dystopia
"The great temptation and tragedy of contemporary society is our desire for happiness at all cost, and our goal of making the objective demands and contingencies of everyday life all but vanish."
Orthodox Authors
May 12, 2012
The New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia: Their Significance for People in the West
The martyrs are meaningful to all Christians.
March 16, 2012
An Era of New Martyrdom. Discrimination of Christians in Various Parts of the World
"Our era is rightly called an era of new martyrdom, for in a whole number of countries, Christians are subjected to mass persecution and discrimination"
January 12, 2012
Speak My Name
Go therefore into all nations...
Engaged Monasticism
We need a return to the monasticism of the 4th century.
A Grim Christmas
This Christmas let us spare a thought and say a prayer for countless Christian victims of Muslim brutality, over the centuries and in our own time.
December 31, 2011
Beware the ‘Rights of Nature’
Mother Earth has rights too! At least that’s what radical environmentalists say.
December 24, 2011
Christmas Too Commercialized? Bah! Humbug!
There's more to the commercialism than meets the eye.
November 9, 2011
A European Victory for Ethical Stem Cell Research
European Union rules that embryonic stem cells and the products derived from them cannot be patented.
October 17, 2011
The Missing Link: The Coessential Nature of Science and Faith
Science and religion may have more in common than we think.
October 6, 2011
On the Fall of Man
What does Genesis say about the Fall of man?
August 3, 2011
Patriots for Christ
In the Third Wold Christianity is exploding, in the Christian West it is dying.
The Indoctrination of Children: Murray v. Curlett Revisited
The state used public education to indoctrinate children.
June 23, 2011
Address to European Council of Religious Leaders on Religious Persecution
European religious leaders must unite to fight Christian persecution around the world.
June 9, 2011
Shades of Grey: The Record of Archbishop Stepinac
Pope Benedict XVI’s uncritical portrayal of Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac (1898-1960) as a saintly figure raises problems for the Orthodox.
June 6, 2011
Will the World Really End on December 21, 2012?
Let's forget the Mayans and Nostradamus and go back to the basics.
May 2, 2011
Osama is Dead. Now What Should I Feel?
Mixed feelings on the death of a murderer.
April 26, 2011
A Catholic Hermit’s Path to Orthodoxy
The journey to Orthodoxy that took a lifetime.
April 23, 2011
Fr. George Calciu: First Century Christian in the Twentieth Century
The cruelty inflicted on Orthodox believers by Communists surpasses that of Early Church.
The Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem
The light that emerges from the Tomb of Christ on Christian Passover.
April 18, 2011
IVF: Enough Will Never Be Enough
Genetically modified embryos next stage.
- Chuck Colson: A Life Redeemed by Christ
- Warning To America: ‘If I Were The Devil’, Paul Harvey’s Prophetic Words
- Orthodox Christians Are Thankful for Catholic Bishops’ Defense of Religious Liberty
- The Gospel, The Cure for Mankind’s Suffering
- Obama’s Assault on Religious Liberty
- Obama Forces Religious Institutions to Pay for Abortion Drugs
May 2, 2012
Chaplain’s Corner. God: The Source of Life’s Ultimate Meaning
The way of un-knowing can be the way of knowing.
Smart Parenting XXV. Applying Christ’s Beatitudes to Parenting: Blessed Are They Who Mourn
Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
March 31, 2012
Chaplain’s Corner: Silence is Golden
The value of silence cuts across many religious traditions.
Healing Society: Revisiting Witnessing Christ in a Secular Age
There can be grievous spiritual danger for Christians in public display of their commitment to Christ.
July 21, 2010
Finding the Balance: Privacy and the Civil Society
Privacy in our culture has come to serve not a deepening of community life but an ever deeper sense of social isolation.
April 14, 2010
As We Move Toward Unity
The crumbling of America and the American Orthodox Church.
April 11, 2010
Barbarians Among Us?
Have we allied the Church with the cultural forces of barbarism?
April 9, 2010
Science and the Demands of Virtue
The natural sciences are not morally neutral
October 8, 2011
When Christ rose again the third day according to the Scriptures
Which scriptures did Paul mean?
June 24, 2011
Jesus as the ‘Perfection’ of Faith
What is Jesus' relationship to faith?
May 13, 2012
Redeeming the Time
Time is not a rat race.
War and Peace in the Teachings of Christ
Is harmony always a good thing?
July 19, 2010
Free Will and Freedom in Christ
An Independence Day homily.
June 10, 2010
Your Conscience - Follow God’s Call
Your money or your life?
June 5, 2010
Across America 15 Million People are Still Unemployed
The reality of our declining economy starting to sink in.
How to Cripple the Free Economy
The socialist policies of the Democrat leadership undermine America’s economic prosperity.
September 30, 2010
The Slippery Slide
Sin enters our life slowly.
July 6, 2010
Where’s Mephibosheth?
A parable of God's mercy.
April 27, 2010
Living Under the Cloud
Like the Israelites in the wilderness, we forget God when things get easy.
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