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June 11, 2009
- The Three Most Important Rules in Business
- Follow these and business can thrive.
- ...more by Chris Banescu
July 1, 2009
- Metropolitan Jonah calls for Full Communion With New Anglican Province
- Traditional Anglicans reclaim the Anglican tradition.
- Blindsided Kids
- Thanks to the internet and the Supreme Court, pornography is now available in every home in America.
- Speak the Gospel: Use Deeds When Necessary
- Think you know about St. Francis of Assisi? Think again.
- Not for Lightweights
- A Protestant pastor's first visit to an Orthodox Church.
- People of the Plant
- A parable on the misuse of a gift.
- The Strange Teachings of Muhammad
- Interview with a courageous Orthodox evangelist.
- Obama and His Pro-Life Apologists
- How do pro-lifers reconcile support for Obama give his radical pro-abortion views? An exchange.
- Dan Brown’s America
- Brown writes thrillers, but sells theology.
- American Capitalism Gone with a Whimper
- A Russian writer's astonishment at American statism.
June 11, 2009
- Beauty and Desecration
- When culture took the wrong turn.
- U.S. Policy and Geopolitics of Jihad: The Green Corridor in the Balkans
- The Muslim state established in the heart of Europe grows stronger.
- The Forgotten Faithful
- The Christians of Palestine.
- The Great Monastery of St. Gabriel in Captivity
- A story largely unknown in America.
- Church on Sunday
- First encounter with Orthodox worship.
- The Tyranny of the Obvious
- When good intentions cause grave and lasting harm.
May 22, 2009
- From Crisis to Creative Entrepreneurial Liberation
- When the going gets tough, the tough get creative.
- Social In-Security and the Economic Crisis
- The role of Social Security in the economic crisis.
- Hate the Sin, Tax the Sinner?
- Misguided moralizings.
April 28, 2009
- Fem. Fatale
- An interview with post-feminist author Carrie Lukas.
- Armenian Golgotha
- New release of an old book shows the horror of the Armenian holocaust under the Ottomans.
- Rape Rates
- Kinsey’s junk science and other unreported sex crimes.
- The End of Christian America
- Answering the recent Newsweek article.
- Ignore our Christian Values and the Nation will Drift Apart
- A warning coming from England.
- Book Review. The Disappearance of Christianity in Its Homeland
- The thousand-year golden age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and how it died.
- Despotism – The Soft Way
- Tocqueville: Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- Mere Atonement
- C.S. Lewis and the multiple angles of redemption.
April 18, 2009
- The Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem
- Fire from the tomb of Christ.
March 23, 2009
- St. Patrick — For Adults
- St. Patrick is not an Irish Santa Claus.
- Love, Sex & Mammon
- Hard times, hard truths and the economics of the Christian family.
- Science Without Limits
- Embryonic stem cell research has yet to provide one successful treatment.
- The Sebelius Challenge
- The next secretary of HHS has no respect for the sanctity of life.
- Reason, Freedom, and the Rule of Law
- Their significance in Western thought.
March 3, 2009
- Obama's Nominee for Office of Legal Counsel: Pregnancy is Slavery
- Abortion radical nominated for top position in Obama administration.
March 1, 2009
- President Overturning “Conscience Rule” for Pro-life Doctors
- Moral convictions won't be recognized.
- Charitable Choice and Secular Goods
- Important distinctions between religious and secular charity.
- Soaking The Rich Means Crippling Churches, Charities, and Home Values
- Churches, charities, take a huge blow under Obama's new tax plan.
February 21, 2009
- Podcast. Great Myths of the Great Depression
- The "New Deal" wasn't a good deal.
- How Democracies Become Tyrannies
- Plato on moral restraint and freedom.
- Reflections on Burke’s Reflections
- Burke saw the tyrannical impluse of the French Revolution first.
- Left Wing of the Catholic Church Destroying the Faith Says Orthodox Rabbi
- The anti-nomianism of the left—and its corrosive march through institutions.
- Were They at the Same Meeting?
- Pelosi downplays Pope's rebuke for her support of the culture of death.
- A Chamberlain Moment
- Geert Wilders' deportation recalls England's capitulation to an earlier threat.
- The Abracadabra Stimulus Plan
- Consumer, not government, demand stimulates economy.
- Nuts!
- "Many corporations have manipulated the language of the free market to conceal their misdeeds and protect themselves from accountability."
February 8, 2009
- Interview with Wesley J. Smith
- Insight into the critical life issues of our age.
- Arguments in Place as Prop. 8 Hearing Nears
- How the battle shapes up.
- Science Holds the Key - Or Does It?
- Obama: "Science is the key to survival." But is it?
- A Hospital for Sinners
- Catholic reflections on the Evangelical restoration of Taggert in a way the Orthodox can appreciate.
- Book Review. Reading the Signs
- Where did the fish symbol for Christianity come from?
- How Government Prolonged the Depression
- Roosevelt's New Deal prolonged Great Depression.
- The Moral Bankruptcy Behind the Bailouts
- "When you're in the hole, quit digging."
- Hollywood’s Radical Che Chic
- Celebrating — and sanitizing — a brutal killer.
January 31, 2009
- Book Review: A Forgotten Golden Age
- The story of a once-thriving Christian world that most westerners don't even know existed.
- Are Common Sense Studies Necessary?
- Why spend millions on things we already know?
January 27, 2009
- Subject to Change
- Can traditional societies survive the power of modernity?
- Divorced from Reality
- “We’re from the Government, and we’re here to end your marriage.”
- In Defense of Wilders
- England's "hate crimes" laws serve the blasphemy laws of Islam.
January 22, 2009
- National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2009
- Affirming the inherent value of life.
- Book Review. The God Delusion
- Faith as caricature.
- The Leaky Bucket
- Why Conservatives need to learn the art of story.
- Should the Promise of Confidentiality Be Kept?
- Promises of confidentiality are key to the conduct of society.
- Presidents and the Constitution
- What Obama, Roosevelt and Madison really said.
- The End of Capitalism?
- The Marxist view of capitalism still shapes the way we understand economics.
- Irrational Economic Man
- If human beings are naturally risk-averse, then what happened on Wall Street?
- ...previous commentary
- The Mystic Chords of Memory: Reclaiming American History
- Why There Is A Culture War: Gramsci and Tocqueville in America
- The Culture of Vice
- Moral Imagination, Humane Letters, and the Renewal of Society
- Awakening from Nihilism
- God's Reasons: The role of religious authority in debates on public policy
- The Problem With Liberalism
- The Problem With Conservatism
- The Gay Invention: Homosexuality Is a Linguistic as well as a Moral Error
- ...more recommended readings
July 1, 2009
- 1917 Council and Tomos: St Tikhon’s Vision Then and Now
- Time to work towards Orthodox unity.
- Honest Friendship?
- A circle of true friends is relatively small.
- The Coming of Islam
- Warnings about a future threat.
- The Virtual Re-creation of the World
- Reflections on technology and communion.
- Understanding Christ in His Time and Culture
- Reading scripture in its proper context.
June 11, 2009
- Smart Marriage XVII. Wrecking a Marriage: Demanding Human Justice
- The judgment of man is one thing; the judgment of God is another.
- The State of Kansas vs Frank Schaeffer in the Murder of Dr. George Tiller
- “I'm sorry” doesn't cut it.
- Barack Hussein Obama’s Happy Muslim Rainbow Tour
- Sealing the myth of Muslim victimhood.
- That Other Speech at Notre Dame
- "I am personally against slavery, but I respect the slaveholders decision to hold slaves."
- Save the Planet, Get Married!
- Want to go green? Don't stay single.
- Give Silence a Chance
- Tuning out the noisy clutter.
- Apologetics I
- A proper defense of the faith - Part 1.
- Apologetics II
- A proper defense of the faith - Part 2.
- Satisfying Our Thirst
- Who is the living water?
- Is There Spiritual Life and Sanctity Today?
- Actually, yes, there is.
June 1, 2009
- Book Review. Orthodox Christianity At The Crossroad: A Great Council Of The Church? When And Why
- Essays on the necessity of a unified American Orthodox Church.
- Entitlement: Sabotaging Relationships
- "Whenever we make a demand based on our title we operate from an entitlement perspective."
- Taking a Vacation with God
- The final destination is always upward.
May 22, 2009
- The Canonical Status of the Patriarch of Constantinople in the Orthodox Church
- "Constantinople has not learned the lessons of its tragic past."
- Smart Parenting XVI. Styles of Parenting
- Authoritative parenting best for raising pro-social children.
- The Word ‘God,’ The Divine Names, ‘Father’ As Divine Name
- From Abp. Hilarion's online catechism.
- Apologies by Bale and other Christians
- What is a proper apology?
- Believing Without Seeing
- "Do not be faithless, but believing."
- The Son of Man I
- What does "Son of Man" mean (Part 1).
- The Son of Man II
- What does "Son of Man" mean (Part 2).
- The Son of Man III
- What does "Son of Man" mean (Part 3).
April 28, 2009
- Podcast. The god Called “Earth”
- Has environmentalism become the new paganism?
- Podcast. The Love of God and the Passion of Christ
- Why did Jesus have to die?
- Book Review. Faith Under Fire
- Memoir shows even chaplains face spiritual crisis in war zone.
- Cowards, Sorcerers and Murderers
- A lack of courage is no different than unbelief.
- The Sign of Jonah
- What does the story of Jonah reveal?
- The Rewards of Fasting
- "Fasting without prayer is no different than dieting."
- When the Lord Deals with People One-to-One
- Exception or the norm?
- Psalm 64
- Worship begins where? — in the Temple of God.
- Jesus not the “Heroic Ideal”
- Jesus is not a Homeric (or even American!) hero.
- What Think Ye of Christ?
- Whose son is He?
April 20, 2009
- The Christians of Dachau
- The prisoners and the cross they bore.
- Spiritual Winter — Spiritual Spring
- After darkness, light...After death, resurrection.
- “I Saw the Spirit Descending like a Dove”
- Christ recovers the Holy Spirit for mankind.
April 18, 2009
- Dachau 1945: The Souls of All Are Aflame
- The Paschal Liturgy in Dachau in 1945.
- Pascha in Dachau
- More on the Paschal Liturgy in Dachau in 1945.
- Mindfullness: A Tool to Break Bad Habits and Troubling Emotions
- "Be watchful in all things..."
- Funeral for an Infant
- A pastor deals with a great tragedy.
- Love in a Time of Recession
- Love must be personal.
April 10, 2009
- Healing The Infirmity Of Sin: A Brief Explanation
- Some ABC's of spiritual healing.
March 28, 2009
- One Word of Truth Outweighs the Whole World
- Any word spoken in truth references Christ.
- The Scandal: Jesus Hangs on the Cross to Forgive Us of Sin
- A reflection for Lent.
- Achieving Orthodox Unity
- Unity will happen when laity, clergy, and monastics demand it.
March 23, 2009
- Obama: Destroying Human Life for the ‘Greater Good’
- The grandiose promises driving embyronic stem cell research not based on facts.
- Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago Condemns Illinois ‘Reproductive Health and Access Act’
- "A
threat to the freedom of our spiritual and religious lives in the State of Illinois..."
- Stem Cell Debate is over Ethics, not Science
- Are ethical constraints “anti-science” only if one disagrees with where the lines are drawn?
- Justice Silenced
- Standing up for what is right.
- The Road Less Travelled
- Taking responsibility for our behavior.
- Is Bill Maher Literally Wrong?
- Maher reasons like a fundamentalist.
- Contradicting Jesus in the Gospels
- The occassions when people contradicted Jesus.
- Fasting as Communion
- Many times people say the church rules are just too hard.
- Virtue Begins with a Spoon
- In the pursuit of wisdom, some folks think they are farther along than they really are.
- Godparent Responsibilities Last a Lifetime
- Ways to strengthen the bond between God-parent and child.
- Come and See
- Christ is the One who never changes, not us.
March 17, 2009
- E Pluribus Unum: One Church From Many?
- What is required for Orthodox unity?
March 1, 2009
- Smart Marriage XVI. Pre-Marriage: Avoiding Infatuation Intoxication
- Love might be blind but the neighbors ain't.
- Prayer and Silence
- A primer on prayer.
March 1, 2009
- Theology is Not for Everyone
- "A theologian is one who prays..."
- On the Social and Moral Problems of Youth in the 21st Century
- The effect of consumerism on the young.
- “Right to Die” can Become a “Duty to Die”
- Vulnerable people can be bullied into assisted suicide.
- Concerning the 60%
- Why do the Orthodox lose 60% of its college youth?
- Double Your Worry, Double Your Problem
- “Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down ….”
- The Last Judgment
- Is God a "celestial terrorist?"
- The Pursuit of Wisdom in the Book of Sirach
- "In the Book of Sirach, the pursuit of Wisdom has a more personal aspect."
- Nailing the Evangelical Fads
- Seeking dialogue or scoring points?
- The Judgment of Love
- "Love" has little meaning apart from judgment.
- Finding God Again in the Church
- Christianity is not a faith lived in isolation.
February 21, 2009
- Orthodox Mission in the 21st Century
- The Orthodox Church can play a significant role in the religious awakening of the West but "diaspora" has got to go.
- The North Worth Saving
- "We need a paradigm shift in the West that would pave the way for a genuine Northern Alliance of Russia, Europe, and North America, as all three face similar existential threats in the decades ahead."
- The Macedonian Call
- The Greek language and scripture.
- Religious Questions for the New President
- Welcome to the church-state battlefield, Pres. Obama.
- Practical Humility
- Humility is practiced in everyday life.
- The Prodigal Son
- We are all prodigals—all of us.
- The Literary Divisions of the Bible
- How do politics and prophesy shape the narrative?
- ...previous commentary
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