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Confronting Ourselves

Confronting Ourselves

03 November 2011

Priest Chris Metropulos

One thing I have come to love about my Orthodox faith is that I am continually confronted with an invitation to convert. Orthodoxy avoids the notion of a once-for-all event in my life to mark my ...

Why CS Lewis is So Irritating! Part 2

Why CS Lewis is So Irritating! Part 2

12 September 2011

Frederica Matthewes-Green

Why C. S. Lewis is So Irritating! Part 1

Why C. S. Lewis is So Irritating! Part 1

07 September 2011

Frederica Matthewes-Green

Did you know that CS Lewis died on the same day as John F. Kennedy? And the same day as Aldus Huxley. The Roman Catholic writer Peter Kreeft wrote a really interesting book called “Between Heaven and ...

The Challenge of Contemporary Homosexual Culture to the Orthodox Church

The Challenge of Contemporary Homosexual Culture to the Orthodox Church

23 August 2011

The Very Rev’d Protopresbyter Fr. Stephen J.F. Maxfield J.F. Maxfield

Contemporary homosexual culture? How can we talk of such a thing? What do we mean? It is to these questions that we must turn at the beginning and then consider where the challenge to the Orthodox ...

The Orthodox Elevator Speech

The Orthodox Elevator Speech

17 August 2011

Priest Luke A. Veronis

Imagine you’re in an elevator and begin a conversation with a stranger. Somehow, you get on the topic of faith and religion, and you say you’re an Orthodox Christian. Like too many Americans, the ...

Mubarak’s Trial: standing between the past and future

Mubarak’s Trial: standing between the past and future

03 August 2011

However, I dare to say that all of these tragic events he lived through cannot be equal to the experience of laying on a bed in an 8 meters square cage with his two sons after 30 years of sitting on ...

Neither East Nor West

Neither East Nor West

25 July 2011

Archpriest Gregory Hallam

The Hidden Agenda of the Rights Approach

The Hidden Agenda of the Rights Approach

18 July 2011

Marguerite A. Peeters

“The hidden agenda of the rights approach” is the title of my presentation. To understand this somewhat enigmatic title, let us go back in history, to 1989, when the end of Marxism-Leninism was ...

Let Your Yea Be Yea and Your Nay Be Nay

Let Your Yea Be Yea and Your Nay Be Nay

05 July 2011

There are questions which we cannot avoid and from which we cannot hide in a fog of rhetorical questions and vague allusions. Basically, there is the question of whether single-sex cohabitation is a ...

Growth & Attendance in Orthodox Parishes in Canada

Growth & Attendance in Orthodox Parishes in Canada

04 July 2011

Archpriest Geoffrey Korz

While attendance and parish numbers across Orthodox jurisdictions in Canada are up, connections between faith and attitudes in daily life remain an open question. Many Orthodox Christians who are new ...

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