OrthodoxNet.com | Fr. Alexander Schmemann | September 26, 1966 WHAT DO WE MEAN when we speak of the Orthodox theological task in America today? It is proper to begin with this question because the title of my paper may seem to suggest a theological orientation of which Orthodoxy is suspicious, but which seems to predominate … Read more
The Time Online | Gerard Baker | October 17, 2007 Anti-Americanism is on the wane at last. All over the world, Americans are being feted once again as farsighted, liberating heroes. Al Gore has won a Nobel Peace Prize, an Oscar and an Emmy, the triple crown of recognition from the self-adoring keepers of bien-pensant, … Read more
David Brooks | October 5, 2007 Modern conservatism begins with Edmund Burke. What Burke articulated was not an ideology or a creed, but a disposition, a reverence for tradition, a suspicion of radical change. When conservatism came to America, it became creedal. Free market conservatives built a creed around freedom and capitalism. Religious conservatives built … Read more
Townhall.com Janice Shaw Crouse April 17, 2007 Jim Wallis has devoted his whole career to trying to force the round peg of leftist ideology into the square hole of biblical orthodoxy. When he wrote his “vision” designed to “transcend” the ideologies of the religious left and right, he ended up further polarizing instead of unifying … Read more
Eggs in the Christian tradition. Nicely done.
Townhall.com George Will April 12, 2007 WASHINGTON — In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a “serious problem.” Indoctrination … Read more
Seattle Times Janet I. Tu April 6, 2007 Sean Dimond, a 39-year-old Seattleite who works for a nonprofit organization, grew up Southern Baptist and, through the years, has attended Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Catholic and evangelical churches.
My Way News CAIN BURDEAU April 7, 2007 NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore “a gross alarmist” Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming. “He’s one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he’s doing a great disservice and he … Read more
Get Religion Blog Terry Mattingly April 4, 2007 When Peter Maris’ father arrived from Greece the U.S. immigration officer couldn’t understand his last name and “Margaris” became “Maris.”
First of all, why “Paschal”? The word comes from Pascha which means Passover and is the proper term for the resurrection of Christ. Christ is the “Paschal Lamb” (Passover Lamb). Think of John the Baptist’s words when he first laid eyes on Christ: “Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the … Read more