Politics, Polemics and Reconcilation
The besetting failure of Orthodoxy in America is our almost global unwillingness to lay aside knee jerk anti-Western polemics. As least since the time of St Justin Martyr, the Church has understood...
View ArticleThomistic Analysis of Pluralism and Totalitarianism
I do not suggest that government is bent upon tyranny or that those who govern are not attempting to seek good things; I do suggest that, willy-nilly, this process is totalitarian in the strict sense,...
View ArticleChristian Witness to the Environmental Movement
I would also challenge my brothers and sisters in Christ to a more critical engagement of the environmental movement as a whole. This would include not simply a careful examination of the science of...
View ArticleBare Ruined Choirs
Soon after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, the roof of St. Andronikos church in Kythrea caved in and fell into its sanctuary. No one came by to clear the rubble, so there’s a heap of ruins on...
View ArticleA Thought Experiment
Let me offer you a thought experiment. Yesterday on the Orthodox Church in America’s website there was an interesting press release recounting a “discussion between members of the Holy Synod of Bishops...
View ArticleFundamentalism: It’s Not Just for Right Wing Christians Anymore
On the Acton Institute’s PowerBlog, John Couretas has a good post (Got a feelin’ of Eco-Justice?) response to “the cascading daily disclosures of Climategate . . . global warming alarmist operating...
View ArticleOrthodox Natural Law Theory
As some have argued here, the Church’s witness requires her to clearly articulate her anthropological vision. The challenges that face both the Church and the larger society flow from competing...
View ArticleA Rather Less Than New Kind of Christianity
Here’s my latest review for the Oooze. You can find this review and others here. The critiques I’ve read of Brian McLaren’s new book A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the...
View ArticleGreece as Political Time Bomb
David P. Goldman posted this today on First Things’s blog First Thought. He describes the economic situation in Greece and sketches out some of the social causes and possible outcomes. In my heart I...
View ArticleAs We Move Towards Unity
The Crumbling of America and the American Orthodox Church The real institutional danger facing Orthodoxy in American arises less from malfeasance and more from reasonably well-intentioned individuals...
View ArticleLooking At the Numbers: Clergy Sexual Misconduct
Like the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church in this country is drawing candidates for ordination from a culture in which sexual victimization is common. Does this concern anyone?
View ArticleHow Are We to Respond to Clergy Sexual Misconduct?
How should the Orthodox Church respond to the growing awareness of the harm caused by clergy sexual misconduct? I'm not asking here about policing misconduct but rather how are we to understand...
View ArticleSt Katherine College: Orthodox Undergraduate Education
In Fall 2011 an Orthodox undergraduate educational institution, St Katherine College, will open in San Diego, CA. Interested? Read on...
View ArticleThe Ground Zero Church/Mosque
The Ground Zero Church/Mosque controversy has not been at the center of my attention. Shame on me maybe but there you go. Let the mosque be built where ever the Muslim community can purchase land; it...
View ArticleReligion and Economics: A Review of AEI’s Common Sense Concept Series
Over the last several years I find myself more and more being drawn more into conversation about religion—specifically, Orthodox Christianity—and economics. Originally, my interest in the economic side...
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