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July 22, 2010
In The Land Of Mao, A Rising Tide Of Christianity
By some estimates, China now has 100 million Christians, more believers in Christ than Communist Party members.
Christians and Civil Disobedience
Is the time coming for Christian civil disobedience?
July 20, 2010
Pity the Postmodern Cultural Elite
The elite culture is completely at odds with the country it leads.
July 19, 2010
America’s Ruling Class—And the Perils of Revolution
Who are America's rulers, and by what right do they rule?
Europe’s Choice: Populate or Perish
The challenge in Europe is overall population decline and an aging population.
The Heritage of Western Civilization
Chinese scholar: "The Christian moral foundation of social and cultural life was what made possible the emergence of capitalism and then the transition to democratic politics."
June 23, 2010
Evangelicals and Global Warming
The public-policy response to global warming proposed by some evangelicals makes actually helping the global poor more difficult.
History Returns to Europe
Europeans thought they could change human nature itself through the creation of an all-caring, all-wise European Union uber-citizen.
June 22, 2010
Six Million African Muslims Leave Islam per Year
Muslims giving up on converting Africa.
June 10, 2010
Europe: The Unjust Continent
European solidarity-talk and social justice-speak masks a social stratification based on the proximity to government power.
Francis Schaeffer [1912-1984]
Remembering a man who entered battle when the world need it.
Set in Stone
The ancient rhythms of an Orthodox monastery
June 5, 2010
History Returns to Europe
Europe’s wise men thought they could change human nature; recent events are proving them wrong.
The Nitty Gritty: Self-Esteem vs. Self-Control
What's a good indicator of future success: grit of self-esteem?
May 28, 2010
Of Virtue and Respect in Daily Life
Today we cannot respect, much less love our neighbor because we have squashed all desire and possibility to encounter the essence of transcendence: God.
Resenting African Christianity
Liberal Episcopalians and Methodists blame it all on the U.S. right wing.
May 26, 2010
Embracing the Tormentors
The shameful embrace of tyrants by the NCC and other religious leftists.
May 20, 2010
Role Models vs. Heroes: Was Tiger Woods Ever Really Enough?
We need heroes, not role models.
May 14, 2010
What Did You Say About Muhammad?!
Look what Orthodox Coptic priest Fr. Zakaria Botros is up to.
A Hidden History of Evil
Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?
Orthodox Authors
July 22, 2010
HORACE MANN, PART II: Prussia comes to America
How did public education take the shape it has today?
July 20, 2010
Islam’s Public Enemy #1 - Coptic Priest Zakaria Boutros
Jihadists have a bounty on his head.
July 19, 2010
Founding an Orthodox Liberal Arts and Sciences College
Kevin Allen interviews Dr. Frank Papatheofanis, founders of St. Katherine College in San Diego.
Abortion And Its Aftermath
Kevin Allen interviews Sister Sarah Elisabet Oftedal on the pernicious personal ramifications of a pro-abortion culture.
June 7, 2010
The “Myth” of Unity: A Response to a 2009 Address Given at St Vladimir’s Seminary
Will the American Orthodoxy follow a missionary or ethnic narrative?
June 5, 2010
Assisted Suicide: Why Now?
Al Pacino sympathetically portrayed Dr. Jack Kevorkian in a recent HBO movie...
The Orthodox Question for 2010
Will it choose America or diaspora?
May 25, 2010
Genesis, Creation and Evolution
An overview of creation accounts including evolution.
May 21, 2010
Pentecost 2010 Springtime for the Church in the Americas!
More on the Episcopal Assemblies and Orthodox unity.
It is Time to Finish What Began at Ligonier!
Ligonier set the benchmark for Orthodox unity.
May 20, 2010
The Churching of Women
What do the words about sin and uncleanness mean?
The Resurrection of Christ and the Rise of Christianity
How do we read the biblical account of the resurrection?
May 19, 2010
Understanding the Origins of the U.S. Public School System: Horace Mann, Part I
The early ideological underpinnings of public education.
May 18, 2010
Presumptuous Consent
Should organ donation be opt-out only? Some say yes and that weakens the defense of life.
May 14, 2010
Debt, Credit and the Virtuous Life
Our economic life is concerned with more than just the objective exchange of goods and services.
May 12, 2010
Prayer is a Powerful Weapon
Prayer is always necessary but even more so in these troubled times.
May 11, 2010
“Don’t Call Us…We’ll Call You” - The Pentecost of Evangelical Orthodox Christians at the Phanar
The rough start of Evangelicals who converted to Orthodox Christianity.
May 8, 2010
What’s the Future of Orthodox Unity in America?
Is the Orthodox Church in America about to undergo a major change?
Brave New World Isn’t Inevitable
Is the future as bleak as some writers think?
Knocking Human Beings Off the Pedestal of Exceptionalism
If human life is knocked off the pedestal, universal human rights will be impossible to sustain.
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July 19, 2010
Book Review: Surviving the Folded Flag
A story of emotional anguish, grief, attempts to understand, and survival strength of those who have lost a loved one in war.
July 6, 2010
Good Marriage XX: Avoiding the Ultimatum Manipulation
We upset ourselves by our irrational interpretations of such events or situations.
Maintaining our Moral Compass
It starts with "watchfulness."
June 1, 2010
Living as a Christian in a Post-Christian World: Discernment
"Do not be conformed to this world..."
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
July 19, 2010
Affirming the Inherent Goodness of the Material World
Mortality, not matter, is what Christ abolished.
July 6, 2010
All Saints Icon Academy
The authentic Tradition of the Church requires a transformation of heart in the person charged to hand it on.
June 14, 2010
Governor Art Link and Why Someone From North Dakota is Who He Is
Wonder why those midwesterners are the way they are?
Fr. Nathaniel Irvine, Part 3
The Ecclesiastical Trial Under Talbot.
The Church’s Rape - Part 1
Learning to forgive the perpetrators.
June 10, 2010
Irvine and Talbot, Post 2
Fr. Nathaniel Irvine Part 2
July 6, 2010
Beneath the Surface
Sailing the shallow waters of the internet.
May 28, 2010
Through Their Eyes
Icons can help guide us to Christ.
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.
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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That Your Joy May Be Full: Learning from the Authentic Orthodox Theology of the Spirit
Fr. Steven Ritter
Get Serious
The Church's Stand on Contemporary Culture
Peter and Helen Evans
Whoever said Christianity was nice?
A Church in Captivity
The Greek Orthodox Church of America
George Matsoukas
What will it take to develop an American Orthodox Church?
Orthodox Christianity At The Crossroad
A Great Council Of The Church — When And Why
George Matsoukas
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Twentieth Annual Meeting of
Orthodox Christian Laity
Ecclesia
Greek Orthodox Churches of the Chicago Metropolis
Panos Fiorentinos
More than 400 richly colored photographs.
Creation and the Patriarchal Histories: Orthodox Christian Reflections on the Book of Genesis
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon
We must unshackle Genesis from the strictures of philosophical materialism.
Called to Serve
Fr. John Peck
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