Contemporary Issues

A ‘PC’ Version of Death

A ‘PC’ Version of Death

06 August 2011

Archpriest John S. Bakas

As funny and ludicrous as the above account of a “politically correct” funeral seems, the essential facts involved in this story are true. This is the secular death–denying culture we live in

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

You Are Not a TV Show

You Are Not a TV Show

19 July 2011

Archpriest Stephen Freeman

Perhaps the most fundamental exercise of the Christian life is found within St. Paul’s simple admonition. It is a directive that points us towards authenticity. The self which St. Paul describes is ...

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 ...

Where Did Our Time Go? Typewriters and the Disappearance of Time

Where Did Our Time Go? Typewriters and the Disappearance of Time

14 July 2011

Archpriest Geoffrey Korz

Today we must ask, as Christians who claim to hold to the ancient practices of the Church, how many of us rise (or more likely, simply stay awake) for the sake of prayer at night? One of the most ...

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 ...

Response To Myself

Response To Myself

04 July 2011

Given our Church’s biblical, patristic, liturgical and canonical sources one eventually detects that there is no universally consistent and accepted teaching on marriage as to its origin, purpose and ...

Оn the Sanctity of Marriage

Оn the Sanctity of Marriage

28 June 2011

Bishop Mefody of Campanie (+1974)

Let us join in prayer that the people of faith across the states of New York and New Jersey will continue to stand fast in the divinely revealed truth of what marriage means. And let us by our ...

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