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Book Review: “The Closing Of The Western Mind”

August 14, 2014  (Originally Published on October 25, 2011) Freeman, C., The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason. Vintage Books. New York, 2005. 432 pages....

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St. Photios the Great and Church-State Relations by Vladimir Moss

March 06, 2015  (Source: http://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com) With the fall of iconoclasm in Byzantium in 843, there also fell the absolutist theory of Church-State relations preached by the...

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The Old Testament and Rationalistic Biblical Criticism by Protopresbyter...

May 29, 2015  (Source: http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english) The Nature of Contemporary Biblical Criticism. Western rationalistic biblical criticism is a phenomenon of long standing, dating...

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Byzantine Empire or Republic?

August 07, 2015 (Source: http://www.theamericanconservative.com) The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the...

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The Old Testament in the New Testament Church by Protopresbyter Michael...

September 22, 2015  (Source) Introduction A distance of many centuries separates us from the time when the books of the Old Testament were written, especially the first ones. And it is no longer easy...

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Islamic Terrorism and Western Ecumenism by Vladimir Moss

September 25, 2015 (Source: http://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com) Aristotle once said that the last virtue of a dying civilization is tolerance. Certainly, this is the only virtue – if it is a virtue...

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DNA Testing Deepens Shroud of Turin Mystery

October 28, 2015 (Source: http://www.foxnews.com) Is it a medieval fake or a relic of Jesus Christ? A new analysis of DNA from the Shroud of Turin reveals that people from all over the world have...

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Metropolitan John’s Statement on Race, Politics, and the Church

A Statement by His Beatitude, Metropolitan John, on the Question of Race, Politics, and the Church As Orthodox Christians, we respect the diversity of political opinions among our brethren on all...

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OCA Statement Repudiates Homosexual Agenda

The following statement was approved by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America during a session of the Holy Synod on June 16, 2016 at Dormition of the Mother of God Monastery in...

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Non-Commemorating MP Bishop to other World Orthodox: “Return to the Church;...

Message of Bishop Longinus Reverend Hierarchs, with pain in my soul, I would ask all of your my brethren: Let us stand aright, let us stand with fear, let us attend!  At all costs it is necessary to...

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Non-Commemorating Athonite Monks: Patriarch Bartholomew has surpassed all the...

[Source] An interview with Hieromonk Sava of the Great Lavra and Fr. Nikodim of Romanian Skete of St. John the Baptist on the Holy Mountain answered questions, while at a conference in Romania. The...

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St. Nektarios of Aegina on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

[Source] They who reduce man to the ranks of the irrational animals and who liken man’s soul to that of the animals deny the soul’s grandeur, the soul’s unique qualities and spiritual powers, and man’s...

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Autocephalous Church of Ravenna Resists Early Attempts at Roman Encroachment

[Source] “It happened in that time, that the Roman pope sent a legation to [Maurus] telling him to hasten to Rome, wanting to subjugate him to his dominion [i.e. jurisdiction as Patriarch]. Having...

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St. John Chrysostom on the Harmony of the Gospels

[From Homily 1 on the Gospel According to St. Matthew] It were indeed meet for us not at all to require the aid of the written Word, but to exhibit a life so pure, that the grace of the Spirit should...

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The Moscow Patriarchate at the Turn of the Century by Vladimir Moss

[Original Article Can be Found Here] In 1999, ten years since perestroika began to expose the secret corruption of the MP, the situation was back to “normal” – that is, homosexuality among the leading...

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Woman Behind Roe V. Wade: “Legalizing Abortion was the Biggest Mistake of my...

Source: LifeSiteNews Today is the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion on demand in the U.S., and led to the deaths of countless millions of unborn babies....

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New Evidence Surfaces About the “Plague of Cyprian”

Source: LiveScience Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer believed the world was coming to an end. Working at the Funerary Complex of...

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“Russia in the 1990s; The Spiritual Failure” by Vladimir Moss

[Original Post Can be Found Here] The ROCOR philosopher Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin (+1954) said: “Russia will be regenerated only when in the soul of the Russian man there will again appear an altar for...

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On Unbaptized Infants

Hieromonk Enoch From what sources we have from saints, councils, and liturgical books, what can we say, little as it is, about the fate of the unbaptized infants?  I will not address St. Augustine’s...

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Abp. Wulfstan [+1023AD] on the Peace and Comfort of God through Christ in a...

From Archbishop Wulfstan’s “Institutes of Polity”: Of the Heavenly King In the Name of the Lord. There is One Eternal King, Ruler and Maker of all creatures. He is Rightfully King, and Glory of Kings,...

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