Townhall.com | Phyllis Schlafly | May. 5, 2008 Ben Stein is known to many as an actor on Comedy Central. But the funniest part about his recent movie “Expelled” is not any clever lines spoken by Stein but the hysterical way liberals are trying to discourage people from seeing it. Stein’s critics fail to effectively … Read more
OrthodoxyToday.org | Fr. George Morelli | Apr. 1, 2008 The ethos of Lent for the committed Orthodox Christian is told to us by St. Dorotheus of Gaza. He likened it to a wake up call, ‘a coming to one’s self’ (like the Prodigal Son) to find meaning for the entire year. The “great and saving … Read more
OrthodoxyToday.org | Fr. Stavros Akrotirianakis | Mar. 14, 2008 One of the statements in the Synodikon proclaims: “This is the faith of the Apostles. This is the faith of the Fathers. This is the Faith of the Orthodox. This is the faith that sustains the universe.” What does this statement mean?
The Australian | Christopher Pearson | Mar. 22, 2008 There has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you’d expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing … Read more
OrthodoxyToday.org | Fr. George Morelli | Mar. 15, 2008 In the first chapter of Genesis we read that man is made in God’s image and called to be like Him. The image, the Church Fathers say, is mainly our intelligence and free will. God so loved us, He sent His only begotten Son for our … Read more
OrthodoxyToday.org | Raymond J. Keating | Mar. 14, 2008 Scouting reinforces lessons we try to teach about hard work, respecting others, responsibility, faith and love of country. Unfortunately, the Boy Scouts have been assaulted in recent times by left-wingers who don’t like the group’s values. But rising in defense is Texas Gov. Rick Perry, with … Read more
OrthodoxyToday | Fr. Richard Demetrius Andrews | Jan. 20, 2008 Since in the teaching of the Church, abortion is wrong and equivalent to the taking of innocent life, that is, a form of murder, it is a “thing that does damage.” The name take by those who encourage and facilitate abortions, to promote their cause … Read more
Greek Orthodox Church of America | Archbishop Demetrios | Dec. 25, 2007 On this glorious day of the Feast of the Nativity of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ we celebrate the truly historical, universal, and eternal event of His Incarnation. It is historical, for at the divinely appointed time He entered our human … Read more
One of the reasons why the man-caused global warming crowd shares many of the characteristics of a cult. SFGate.com | Debra J. Saunders | Oct. 15, 2006 Global Warming is a religion, not science. That’s why acolytes in the media attack global-warming critics, not with scientific arguments, but for their apostasy. Then they laud global-warming … Read more
by Dennis E. Engleman – Throughout the Church age, the mystery of iniquity worked subtly and insidiously to foster unbelief. Satanically inspired humanism, which had received such impetus during the Renaissance and Enlightenment, reached its nihilistic nadir in the early twentieth century in the form of atheistic communism. The utopian ideology which is at the … Read more