Marriage: Why Hi-Jack a Christian Institution?
Whatever is going on in California, it is not marriage. Two men or two women can no more be married, than a man can
be wife or woman a husband. 6/18/08
McCain Says Constitutional Right to Life Applies to Unborn
McCain said that the “noblest words ever written” were “the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.” He believes that those words “apply to the unborn.” 6/13/08
Return of the Dupes and the Anti-Anti-Communists
Since literally the founding of the American Communist Party in 1919, the extreme left — specifically, the
communists — have relied upon genuine liberals to be dupes, or suckers, to help further their cause. 6/13/08
The War on Common Sense
Watching young people compile and try to display knowledge in a college classroom is similar to watching an
epistemological famine. I can say this as an adjunct professor in college and university systems since 2002. 6/7/08
The Unjust Treatment of Father Johannes (Hans) Jacobse
We write to you at this time, Your Eminence, because so many of us in our local church, Saint Katherine Greek Orthodox Church in
Naples, Florida, are deeply saddened by the dismissal of the Reverend Johannes (Hans) Jacobse from his position of proestamenos
and disappointed by the expulsion of his entire family from association with the Greek Orthodox Church of the entire
Atlanta Metropolis, harsh treatment that he and his family must endure from our Orthodox community. 7/2/2008
Raising Children Who Believe Fr. Peter Gillquist - One of the great struggles we have today in the Church is preserving our children in the
Orthodox Faith. Too often they seem not to be interested. Can we somehow motivate our kids to be excited about following Christ
and being Orthodox Christians? I believe there is a way. It takes commitment and hard work, but it's worth it.
Prayer Brings Us to God Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis - Prayer is not just some ritual Christians do out of a sense of obedience and
obligation. It’s not some kind of superstition— like “I didn’t do well on my job interview because I forgot to pray.” Or “I better
pray hard so Johnny can win his soccer game.” Prayer isn’t something we just break out in times of crisis. And it is not just
a tool we use in the church. Prayer is a gift from God to us His people. 6/25/08
Bishop Hilarion Opposes Radical Liberalization in Protestant Communities
According to Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, many Protestant communities are experiencing the
"radical liberalization of morals" during the last decades, when, for example, the same-sex union is considered a marriage,
and members of sexual minorities are ordained bishops. 6/9/08
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The Climate Alarmist Manifesto
Just as class struggle forms the nucleus of Marxism, so does it sit at the very core of the Left’s climate alarmism.
6/13/08
The Audacity of the Democrats
The Democratic Party has devolved into a club for the illegitimately aggrieved, the self-absorbed, the self-hating
and the perpetually pissed-off. It is a sanctuary where solipsistic malcontents and their disjointed causes find refuge and support.
6/7/08
We Don’t Need a Climate Tax on the Poor
With average gas prices across the country approaching $4 a gallon, it may be hard to believe, but the U.S.
Senate is considering legislation this week that will further drive up the cost at the pump. 6/3/08
Living On Obama’s Collective Farm
In a commencement speech at Wesleyan University, Barack Obama advised graduates not to pursue the American dream
of success. Ivy League graduates who live in big homes can be selfish, you know. 6/2/08
Trade vs. Terror
Manuel “Sureshot” Marulanda and his FARC terrorist group died long before he did last March 26. That’s because
Colombians now embrace free markets over terror. So why is Congress still halting free trade? 5/28/08
On the Sadness of Higher Education
We now have closed-shop, massively subsidized, intolerant political fiefdoms, and they are the gatekeepers of
society’s rewards. Without incentives for different models of higher education, we shall have this same system of colleges and
universities as far as the mind can foresee. 5/28/08
Obama’s Plan To Disarm The U.S.
In the middle of a war on two fronts, Barack Obama plans to gut the military. He also wants to dismantle our nuclear
arsenal. And he wants to keep you in the dark about it. The Obamatons of the mainstream media have failed to report one of the
most chilling campaign promises thus far uttered by the presumptive Democrat nominee for president. 6/6/08
Global Warning
No one doubts that the environment has been heating up; the controversy it has engendered has to do less with
an indubitable fact than with isolating its supposed causes. 6/5/08
A Record Tax Hike
The Senate’s new $3 trillion budget for 2009 is big, but it fails to do something vital to the U.S. economy: extend
President Bush’s tax cuts. If this isn’t fixed, we’ll soon face the largest tax hike in our history. 6/4/08
Drill Here, Drill Now
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s petition to Congress demanding the removal of government obstacles to increasing
our energy supplies is gathering momentum by the minute, while the Democrats’ do-nothing Congress wants to raise fuel prices.
5/30/08
Liberals and control
For nearly two hundred years liberals have believed that the government can solve complex economic problems like
the provision and fair distribution of goods and services. For two hundred years they have tested that belief and for two
hundred years they have failed. 5/24/08
Ethicist tells Catholic journalists in Toronto to be ‘word warriors’
Ethicist Margaret Somerville, one of Canada’s leading intellectuals, challenged members of Catholic media to
become “word warriors” and ethics agents to give people “the words they need to protect human dignity.” 5/29/08
Articles from Previous Weeks
G.K. Chesterton on Materialism and Christianity
Chesterton argues against materialism, the philosophical view that only matter has any reality; non-material constitutents of
human experience like love, meaning, compassion, etc. are not real. 5/26/08
Beyond the Death of God - Scientific Challenges to Atheism
While our attention has been riveted on the momentous political and ideological realignments that mark the century's end, we have all but
overlooked a quiet revolution in scientific understanding with far more radical implications for the modern world view.
How crypto-Marxism won the Cold War
The Marxists had seventy years in the Soviet Union, and managed to kill 100 million people according to Marxist historians themselves.
But here we are, twenty years later, and all that is deliberated wiped from our minds. 5/23/08
California Decision Will Radically Change Society
Americans seem mesmerized by the word “change.” And, by golly, they sure got it last week from the California Supreme Court. It is difficult to imagine a
single social change greater than redefining marriage from opposite sex to include members of the same sex. 5/20/08
The Next Conservatism
Conservatives gave up some of their principles in order to retain power. The public has lost confidence in the
conservative movement. 5/12/08
Scientific Dissent from Darwinism
Over 700 scientists since 2001 have stood against the establishment and proclaimed: “We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to
account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.” 5/12/08
A Phony ‘War on Science’
There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation
that Republicans are conducting a “war on science.” 5/7/08
Anglican Church Bishop Working to Create “Gay” Christianity
The Anglican Church is the perfect vehicle for creating a new “gay” Christianity by virtue of the fact that it is the only church that
accepts the logical contradiction of asserting both the sanctity of human life and the existence of a right to abortion. 5/16/08
Some Logical Corollaries of California’s Gay Marriage Decision
In order to appease an intransigent minority group, the California Supreme Court has, in the manner of Roe v. Wade, resorted to
inventing a new legal principle to justify their predetermined goal. 5/19/08
Crude Mistake
Democrats prove yet again they do not care about the American public or real economics. These statists-socialists are destroying our future
and crippling our economy by maintaining our dependance on foreign oil and limiting America’s energy options. 5/16/08
Human Rights Regression
Since the end of the Second World War, much of Western Civilization took it for granted that the progress and triumph of
human rights, freedom, and liberal democracy would continue in perpetuity. 5/15/08
Bishop Hilarion - Christianophobia Rising in Europe
Instances of Christianophobia and of discrimination against Christians should be officially condemned. The public display of Christian symbols
should nowhere in Europe be prohibited, and the celebration of Christian feasts should nowhere be discouraged in the name of falsely-understood tolerance.
5/5/08
Pope Benedict, Logos, Chaos, and Freedom
Today, as in the Civil War, Logos is on the side of freedom. And in spite of the secular media effort to obfuscate, Benedict’s
message couldn’t be clearer: Logos rises to defend against the secular call for submission to the Chaos unleashed by Islam. 5/3/08
The Law of Intended Consequences
Congress is not shocked to discover that an idealistic program has gone awry. Instead, they’re eager to avoid the blame for
something that they already knew they were up to. This is not a case of “unintended consequences”; it is a case of intended consequences. 5/8/08
Life Without Edges - The Left’s Seductive Promise
In 1947 the Left discovered the Separation of Church and State in the Constitution. This eventually led the benevolent Left to protect
us from too much exposure to religion by prohibiting prayer in public schools. 5/8/08
Ben Stein Provokes the Liberal Wrath
The message of Stein’s critics comes through loud and clear. They don’t want anybody to challenge Darwinian orthodoxy or
suggest that intelligent design might be an explanation of the origin of life. 5/5/08
Darwin and Hitler: In Their Own Words
Darwin understood the eugenic implications of his own theory, and warned his readers against imminent evolutionary
backsliding. 5/5/08
Be Happy: The American Refusal to Deal with Suffering
What IS unique to modern America is that our hopefulness comes with a price tag that no other culture has ever been willing
to pay. It comes at the expense of reality and the medium of exchange is our spirit. 5/3/08
Globe may be cooling on Global Warming
Australia, the land where sinks drain the other way, has alerted Americans that we see Earth’s climate
upside down: We’re not warming. We’re cooling. 5/1/08
Darwinism, Bumbleology with a Fake ID
Q: How many materialists does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. Given time the light bulb will change itself. 4/29/08
America, You Have Been Had
They say that liberals are all prepared for the inevitable “swift-boating” of Barack Obama. Look behind you, liberals. It already
happened and, like last time, it was an own-goal scored by liberals. 4/29/08
Passing the Buck has Turned to Passing the Debt
America became a great nation because at key moments in our history our national leaders were willing to make sacrifices to preserve
freedom and opportunity for future generations. Yet, that tradition is being abandoned today in Washington. 4/28/08
Reason Permeates the Universe, Logic Must be Valid
To understand that logic must be valid is to see at once that this thing we all know, this thought, this mind, cannot in fact be
really alien to the nature of the universe. Or, putting it the other way around, the nature of the universe cannot be really alien to Reason.
We find that matter always obeys the same laws which our logic obeys. When logic says a thing must be so, Nature always agrees. No one can suppose that this can be due to a happy conincidence.
God didn’t create hell for sinners, they did it themselves
God didn’t create hell for sinners, they did it themselves. God doesn’t send sinners to hell, but people
who oppose God’s will and revolt against God choose hell themselves. 3/28/08
Sex-change therapies on children 'beyond the pale'
Children's Hospital Boston, a world-renowned center for pediatric healthcare, is being criticized by a Massachusetts-based
pro-family group for offering sex-change therapy to patients as young as ten years old. 4/23/08
Earth First! (People Later)
The “science” of global warming is nothing more than a cover for their irrational emotional needs. It’s
religion for people who are too cool to go to church. All that yearning, the need for something bigger, transcendent: Hey
the planet’s heating up and I’ve been placed here to save it! 4/22/08
Time Magazine Disrespects WWII Veterans
The cover of Time magazine’s latest issue using the famous photo of soldiers raising the American flag on Iwo Jima to
promote the imagined "War On Global Warming" shouldn’t really be surprising. It is just more of the same that we have come to expect
from the MSM (mainstream media) disrespect for the military and the men and women who serve their country. 4/20/08
Quotes
"There is no doubt that we all feel the incongruity of supposing, say, that the planet
Earth might be more important than the Great Nebula in Andromeda. On the other hand, we
are all equally certain that only a lunatic would think a man six-feet high necessarily
more important than a man five-feet high, or a horse necessarily more important than a
man, or a man's legs than his brain."
"The conclusion is inevitable: the importance we attach to great differences of size
is an affair not of reason but of emotion."
-- C.S. Lewis -
Miracles
Schaeffer does not claim that you have to be Orthodox to be saved or that you
cannot lead a God-pleasing life as a Protestant of Catholic. This book is addressed to those who are
interested in the full encounter with Christ's True Church and the life if affords one.
A Jealous God Book Review - Award-winning journalist Pamela R. Winnick exposes some of the more
unsavory and dangerous characteristics of the scientific establishment that have contributed to the erosion
of human dignity and led to the abuse of individuals for the sake of science.
Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) Book Review - Mere Christianity is full of memorable and powerful revelations that
elucidate the foundations of Christian theology, our relationship to God, and the meaning of life. Only
C.S. Lewis could summarize such broad concepts so eloquently without coming across as overly-religious or preachy.
The ACLU vs. America Book Review - Despite its carefully cultivated image as a defender of individual "rights"
and advocate for "the people," the ACLU stands for intellectual elitism, hypocrisy, and a blatant disregard
for democratic processes. The ACLU, demands one set of rules for itself and the ability to dictate
other rules for everyone else.
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The Progressive Road to Hell
This is what “progressive” social policies and good intentions have wrought! (What is paved with good intentions?)
Feminism, welfare, and the sexual revolution, along with the explosion of narcotics, have completely destroyed the black family. 5/26/08
Key Characteristics of Great Leaders - Part I
What are some key characteristics of a great leader? While many books and countless articles have been written
about this subject, we continue to witness a significant shortage of great leaders in many companies and institutions. Here
are some essential traits and skills that great leaders must possess. 12/31/2007
Orthodox Leadership in a Brave New World Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse - Salvation is not understanding the correct theological concepts; it is not nostalgia for civilizations past; it is not formal membership in a long-standing parish; it is not social activism; it is not morally
appropriate behavior; it is not mastery of the moral vocabulary. Any Orthodox response to the cultural challenge must first
presume a recovery of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. - 10/3/2007
The Task of Orthodox Theology in America Today Fr. Alexander Schmemann - For the eternal task of theology is to refer the life of the Church to the absolute
Truth of the Church's own tradition, to keep alive and operative a criterion by which the Church judges herself. Immersed in human
history, the Church is always full of temptations and sins and, what is even more serious, of compromises and accommodations to
the spirit of "this world."
Of Mice and Men, Science Mimics Creation
As scientific research and advancements, supported by increasingly more powerful computer technologies, delve into the vast complexities of biological organisms, the handiwork and genius of their Creator become more obvious and irrefutable.
12/15/07
The Parable of the Missing Samaritan Chris Banescu - A certain Orthodox parish was on her journey towards the Kingdom
of Heaven, but on her way she fell among thieves, who chased away the good shepherd guarding her flock,
stripped her of the fullness of life that she is called to represent and support, wounded her,
scattered her sheep ,and departed, leaving her half dead.
Separated At Birth
The United States is engaged in a massive experiment with its children, according to
Mary Eberstadt. This "separationist experiment" is designed to see how well American children fare
without much attention from one or both of their parents. [March 2006]
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Calendar of Feasts
Orthodox Calendar of Main Church Feasts from 2004 through 2012.
The Divine Liturgy
The word liturgy means common work or common action. The Divine Liturgy is the common work of
the Orthodox Church. It is the official action of the Church formally gathered together as the chosen People
of God.
Various Private Prayers
Fr. John Whiteford has graciously compiled on his site a large list of various
prayers.
The Seven Sacraments
Fr. John Matusiak and Fr. Thomas Hopko answer questions about the
Seven Sacraments of the Orthodox Faith.
In Spirit and In Truth
Our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ, by His Holy Glorious Resurrection, gave man inner
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