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AGW: Short on Science, Long on Religion
As a dissenting physicist, I simply can no longer buy the notion that CO2 produces any significant warming of the
atmosphere at any rate. 7/14/08
False Equation: Opposing Same-Sex Marriage vs. Interracial Marriage
The most effective of all morality-based arguments for same-sex marriage, the one that persuades more people than any
other argument, is the one that equates opposition to same-sex marriage with the old opposition to interracial marriage. 7/15/08
Is God a Liberal Democrat?
Officials of the declining 4.9 million Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) have revealed what God’s
priorities are in the U.S. presidential campaign. And remarkably, the divine priorities was very akin to the Democratic Party’s
priorities, if not further to the left. 7/14/08
Homosexuals Brainwashing Our Children in Elementary Schools
It’s Elementary is meant to be a training video for homosexual activist teachers across the country. In addition,
the film itself has been shown to schoolchildren in public schools in Massachusetts and elsewhere. 7/13/08
The Thin Margin of Freedom's Victory
We the people metaphorically dodged a bullet when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Second Amendment is still alive.
While many of us celebrated, we were also dismayed by the thin margin of freedom's victory. 7/4/08
The Bible and Conservatism
Jews and Christians alike tend to undersell or dumb down our faiths. We’re content to think the Bible is just a book of
stories, ethical rules for personal observance, or abstract theological dogma. 6/29/08
Religious Issues
Daily Scripture Readings
Not Compromising the Gospel
Pakistani-born Bishop Michael Nazir Ali of the Church of England continues to roil his leftist and Islamist critics by
recently defending the right of Christians to share the Gospel with Muslims. 6/27/08
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.
OCA Crisis - Resources Page
Dedicated site with links, articles, and information about the on-going OCA spiritual crisis.
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Current Issues, News, & Editorials
No Opt-out of Homosexual Indoctrination in Class for Massachusetts Parents
A federal appeals court panel has upheld a Massachusetts policy of indoctrinating elementary school students with pro-homosexual
attitudes without their parents consent. 7/17/08
How the Greens Captured Energy Policy
U.S. energy policy — to stretch the meaning of the term - is appalling. It has been thrown together piece by piece
over the decades to create a system that is dysfunctional, over complex, and internally contradictory. 7/10/08
Hell on Earth
You may be asking yourself in what twisted world could that revolting story be considered a lucky day? Welcome
to North Korea. 7/9/08
Trying to Put Lipstick on a Pig
Planned Parenthood is in search of a makeover. For years, the organization has been the biggest abortionist in the
business, but as abortion is losing its cachet, Planned Parenthood is trying to reinvent itself. 6/29/08
It’s Time for Rage - Drill, Drill, Drill
Americans are worried. Americans are angry. Soaring gas prices are seriously crippling our economy and hitting us where
it hurts the most — in our pockets. 7/4/08
Fairness Despotism
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to restore the “Fairness Doctrine” regulating political speech — proof that in the
Internet Age, Democrats have lost the communications war. 6/27/08
The Messiah Channel
For months, Barack Obama’s pastor lit up the radio and television airwaves with his comments on conspiracy theories
about American “state-sponsored terrorism,” his call on God to damn America, his belief that the September 11 terrorist attacks
were simply America’s “chickens coming home to roost.” July 2008
You Can’t Fuel All of the People All of the Time
Democrats have worked hard to ensure that Americans pay as much for gas as Europeans do. After a quarter-century of
gas tax hikes, a ban on drilling for oil and a complete destruction of the nuclear power industry in America, I guess liberals
can declare: Mission accomplished! 6/25/08
NARAL Catholics Line Up for Obama
Mr. Obama is for using tax dollars to fund abortions, and against restrictions on partial-birth abortion.
In the Illinois Senate, he voted against legislation protecting a child who was born alive despite an abortion. 6/26/08
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
Top 10 reasons to blame Democrats for soaring gasoline prices
Ten clear areas where Democrats have purposely undermined the US. 6/16/08
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
Barack Obama Strongly Supports Unrestricted Abortion
Barack Obama, has specifically promised that making total unrestricted abortion in the United States his
number one priority as president. 6/13/08
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
Articles from Previous Weeks
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
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
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 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
Dr. David Berlinski - How Does a Cow Become a Whale?
Dozens of mathematicians skeptical of the Darwinian theory of how life originated. “This is proposterous theory.”
6/3/08
The Skeptical Inquirer
If only atheists were the skeptics they think they are. - 6/2008
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 and the Military Budget, Dangerous Cuts Planned
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
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.
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
Proposal Over Muslim Churches Triggers Holy Fury
There has been an outcry in Belgium over a proposal to convert little-used churches into mosques.
6/4/08
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
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
Maxine Waters threatens to nationalize U.S. oil industries
Maxine Waters just declared a socialist policy of total confiscation in the House hearing room, and she looks for an exit strategy. 5/24/08
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
Quotes
"The Christians say that God has done miracles. The modern world, even when it believes in God, and even when it has seen the defenselessness of Nature, does not. It thinks God would not do that sort of thing. Have we any reason for supposing that the modern world is right?""I agree that the sort of God conceived by popular "religion" of our own times would almost certainly work no miracles. The question is whether that popular religion is at all likely to be true."-- C.S. Lewis - Miracles
Book Corner
 The Collected Works of C.S Lewis : The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God inthe Dock by C.S. LewisDubbed the "apostle to skeptics," Lewis was a profound thinker with the rare abilityto communicate the philosophical and theological rationale of Christianity in simple yet amazinglyeffective ways. In The Pilgrim's Regress, Lewis records his search for meaning and spiritual satisfactionthat eventually led him to Christianity.
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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Spiritual Nourishment
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Key Characteristics of Great Leaders - Part II
Here are some additional qualities that embody superior leadership. 6/21/2008 (
more by Chris Banescu)
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
Some Employees Are More Equal Than Others
Chris Banescu - Dealing with a dysfunctional work environment. - 7/7/2007 -
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]
Worship
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
spiritual life, taught us to worship Him, and to serve God ‘in spirit and in truth’.
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