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Oct, 2008
55,086 visits
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231,665 pages
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Visits 2008
769,160
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Visits 2007
1,192,536
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Visits 2006
892,124
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581,106
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Total visitors
(2005-2008)
5,747,222
The world reads OT
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December 20, 2008
- The Apologist
- Interview with Dinesh D'Souza, author of "What's So Great About Christianity".
- The Deadly Convenience of Christianity Without Culture
- We are heading into a clash of state power and religious freedom, something like the Kulturkampf attempted by Bismarck in the nineteenth century.
- Government Compels Aid for Gay Procreation
- Homosexual activists want our government to compel the private sector to help gays date, mate and procreate.
- More than “Mutual Joy”
- Lisa Miller of Newsweek against Scripture and Christ.
- Broadcast News
- Fr. Botros and his fearless evangelizing of the Muslims.
- Blinded by Science?
- Don't be; that's just the new atheists masking their faith choice.
- Struggle to Stay Christian
- Muslim converts to Christianity suffer horrible persecution — sometimes from America's allies.
- Calculating Christmas
- Looks like Christmas wasn't a replacement for the Winter Solstice after all.
November 29, 2008
- In the Name of Knowledge and Wisdom
- The assumption that the New Atheism is based on "reason" is false.
November 25, 2008
- Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789
- "It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God..."
November 21, 2008
- The First Freedom
- Why religion must be free, not tolerated.
- Metropolitan Kirill on Economic Globalization and the Social Consensus
- When society aspires to the common good, the social consensus must not substitute for the eternal imperative.
- A Pyrrhic Propaganda Victory in Rome
- Did Pope Benedict hand a propaganda victory to the Muslims, or does it just appear that way?
- The Admiral
- Blockbuster movie refocuses the Russian mindset.
November 13, 2008
- Story Time
- How absent fathers affect children in the inner-city.
- Dr. Phillip Nitschke and the Reinvention of Assisted Suicide
- Euthanasia is back.
- Tired of Life?
- "Seamless garment" is starting to unravel.
- Scientists and Philosophers Find That ‘Gene’ Has a Multitude of Meanings
- Determinism undermined by science?
- African Power
- How 192 delegates saved Methodists from madness and other stories.
- Family Ties
- Bernard-Henri Lévy explains his enduring, if troubled, relationship with the Left.
- Remember Sears When Christmas Shopping
- Sears treats our men and women in uniform well.
November 9, 2008
- Child Slavery in the Sudan
- Islam and the slave trade.
- Seven Things You Can’t Do as a Moral Relativist
- So you’ve decided to become a moral relativist?
- Book Review. Only a Theory
- Evolution and the battle for America's soul.
- The First Gulag
- "A museum fights to keep the memory of Stalin's victims alive, while both church and Vladimir Putin's state prefer amnesia."
- Winning Proposition
- Proposition 8 voters "simply voted to enshrine the definition of natural marriage as one man and one woman in the state constitution."
November 3, 2008
- Obama’s Coming War on Historic Christianity over Homosexual Practice and Abortion
- The inversion of moral values under the rubric of "civil rights."
November 1, 2008
- The Dehumanizing Impact of Modern Thought
- Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and their followers.
- High School HIV Scare Points to Moral Crisis
- Plenty of sex-ed, but precious little moral-ed.
- Defending the Faith
- Conservatives face huge obstacles in putting Anglicanism back together.
- Ten Years of “Death with Dignity”
- Examining the first decade of Oregon’s experience with physician-assisted suicide.
- Why Obama's Communist Connections Are Not Headlines
- The history and truth about communism is not taught by our educators.
October 8, 2008
- Architecture and Railroads: A Tribute
- Architecture and the civic culture.
October 5, 2008
- The Tyranny of the Minority
- How the forced recognition of same-sex “marriage” undermines a free society.
- Book Review. Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution
- Is it even possible?
- The Death of Theory
- For 25 years or more, the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern theory. Now its empire seems to be breaking up.
- Separation Anxiety
- It’s a national epidemic, so why do couples continue to divorce?
- Dr. Frankenstein's Wall Street
- It's not only Wall Street that got greedy.
- This Old World's Tawdry Voices
- Secularism's destructive pull on children.
September 18, 2008
- Evolution vs. Naturalism
- Why they are like oil and water.
- Forty-Eight Liberal Lies About American History
- Progressive activists and historical revisionism in high school history books.
- Don’t Know Much About History
- Our children are ignorant about history.
- Eugenics, American Style
- The abortion of Down Syndrome babies.
- Book Review. Underground Economy
- The entrepreneurial energy and social capital of the urban poor.
- In America, The Poor Don't Work
- Poverty is more than an economic problem.
- ...previous commentary
- The Mystic Chords of Memory: Reclaiming American History
- Why There Is A Culture War: Gramsci and Tocqueville in America
- The Culture of Vice
- Moral Imagination, Humane Letters, and the Renewal of Society
- Awakening from Nihilism
- God's Reasons: The role of religious authority in debates on public policy
- The Problem With Liberalism
- The Problem With Conservatism
- The Gay Invention: Homosexuality Is a Linguistic as well as a Moral Error
- ...more recommended readings
December 20, 2008
- The Church and the Terror State
- "The Russian Church today is growing, nourished by the blood of millions of martyrs who perished under the Soviet regime."
- The Fight for Peace
- Sometimes evil has to be fought.
- Ministry at the End of Life
- Advice on dealing with sickness and death.
- Jesus' Interpretation of His Passion
- More than the Suffering Servant of Isaiah.
- The Spirit of Christmas
- How committed are we to our faith -- really?
- Meditations on the Nativity of Christ
- Theological insight into the meaning of Christ's birth.
- Christmas: A National Holiday
- Different traditions can stand side by side with each other.
- The Theological Virtue of Faith
- How do we understand what faith is?
- Who Stole Christmas?
- Why give the Holy Day away to the secularists?
- Putting Christ into Xmas
- Resisting the commercial spirit of the age.
November 29, 2008
- Episcopacy, Primacy, and the Mother Churches: A Monastic Perspective
- Trenchant and clear-headed thinking on Orthodoxy in America. A must read.
- More Reflections on the Election of Metropolitan Jonah
- An OCA priest reflects on the strengths and weakeness of the renewal in the OCA.
November 21, 2008
- Thanksgiving: The National Holy-day
- "Give thanks in everything..."
November 21, 2008
- Moral Tradition and the Assault of Gay Activists
- Homosexual "marriage" about more than "fairness."
- Smart Parenting XV. When Your School Age Child Brings up a Conflict Between Church and Science
- The measure of all things is Christ.
- Why We Call Them Human Rights
- Ecuador just gave every virus, bacterium, insect, tree & weed constitutional rights.
- The Authors and Editors of the Penitential Psalms
- The Psalms portray the complexities of more than one man.
- Recovering Authentic Spirituality
- Waking up from spiritual tupor.
- Why Do You Go to Church?
- Is it to find Christ?
- Reflections on the Election of Metropolitan Jonah
- A priest reflects on the OCA's new direction.
- When the Essentials Come Back into Focus
- Is the god we worship the God of Abraham?
- The Theological Virtues
- Our economic and political crisis should turn our eyes heavenward.
November 13, 2008
- Assisted Suicide: The Wind in Their Sails
- Washington state's (under-reported) approval of assisted suicide breaths new life into culture of death proponents.
- Christ Empowers Worshipers in the Eucharist
- How do we approach Holy Communion?
November 9, 2008
- Christianity and Armegeddon
- How does St. John's Revelation speak to us today?
- Aftermath of the Election
- How do we respond?
- Providing for Christ and His Church
- Am I happy to share, or am I stingy...irritable?
November 3, 2008
- An Interview with His Grace, Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria
- Clear headed insights from an emerging leader in world Orthodoxy.
November 1, 2008
- New Study: The Orthodox Church Today
- A comprehensive study of Orthodox opinion and attitudes.
- An Open Letter to Frank Schaeffer
- Challenging the assertion that Obama is "pro-life."
- The Ownership of Property
- "Caesar is our servant, not a thief."
- Resisting the Legion of Thoughts
- How do we expel distressing thoughts?
- Locking the Door from the Inside
- Christ might knock, but if the door doesn't open He's not coming in.
- The Election and Christ
- Win or lose, our faith must rest in someone greater.
October 8, 2008
- Smart Marriage XIV. The Anti-Negotiation Stumbling Block
- One spouse cannot spontaneously know what the other wants or needs.
- Where Are the Orthodox Dominionists?
- Are Protestant "Dominionists" taking over the Orthodox Church?
- Religious Right Must Not Set Agenda for Orthodox Church
- Is the "Religious Right" taking over the Orthodox Church?
- The Big One Is Nigh!
- "Keeping the markets oxygenated with billions of "our" dollars will not save them...because the malaise is moral and spiritual."
- The Three Parts of the Gospel
- We preach differently in different places.
- An Inspired Choice
- An argument for the elevation of Bp. Job as leader of the OCA.
- Teaching Prayer
- Prayer is very difficult to teach.
- Meet God Halfway
- "Have I drawn near and close to God in order to hear Him?"
October 5, 2008
- An Open Letter to the Delegates of the OCA’s Upcoming AAC
- A priest of the Orthodox Church of America (OCA) argues that the appointment of Bp. Hilarion Alfeyev to Metropolitan will help reverse the leadership crisis in the OCA.
- Peter and Helen Evans - Orthodox Speakers on Bioethics
- Challenging the culture of death.
- Response to the Open Letter of 138 Muslim Theologians
- Dialogue, not syncretism.
- Setting Objectives for Christian-Muslim Dialogue and Cooperation
- Aggressive secularism affects Islam too.
- St. John Cassian
- A historical essay worth reading again.
- Catechesis and Evangelism Are Not Enough
- Examining the Orthodox dimension of the latest PEW report.
- Moral Reflections on the Financial Crisis
- "The craving for money and for luxury has been transmitted to everyone and the true purpose of property has been lost."
- Faith in Christ, Not in Works
- "In order to be made righteous by the faith of Christ, we must seek to imitate as best we can, the absolute trust in, and obedience towards, God the Father."
- ...previous commentary
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