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November 2012
Chaplain’s Corner: Wisdom, Age and Belief in God
Fr. George Morelli
The older we get, the more likely we will believe in God.
November 6, 2012
November 6, 2012
October 2012
Smart Parenting IXX. Halloween: A Few Spiritual Pointers for Orthodox Parents
Fr. George Morelli
Halloween is a pagan holiday that was never Christianized. Here's some ideas on how to handle it.
October 23, 2012
October 23, 2012
Smart Parenting XVIII. Applying Christ’s Beatitudes to Parenting: Blessed Are the Merciful
Fr. George Morelli
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall find mercy.
October 4, 2013
October 4, 2013
Chaplain’s Corner. Resilience: The Key to Catastrophe Management
Fr. George Morelli
Are things really as bad as they seem?
October 4, 2013
October 4, 2013
September 2012
Islam and the Closing of the Secular Mind
Samuel Gregg
The "enlightened" Western mind can no longer think seriously or coherently about religion.
September 20, 2012
September 20, 2012
Moral Courage
Fr. George Morelli
Moral issues matter in elections.
September 18, 2012
September 18, 2012
Moral Courage
Fr. George Morelli
Moral issues matter in elections.
September 18, 2012
September 18, 2012
Food That Perishes: An Orthodox Approach to Food and Eating Disorders
Fr. George Morelli
Problems with food can be a disorder.
September 3, 2012
September 3, 2012
Bullying: Defacing God’s Image
Fr. George Morelli
Kindliness is next to godliness.
September 3, 2012
September 3, 2012
August 2012
The New Soviet League of Militant Godless
Philip Jenkins
Blinding historical insensitivity.
August 21, 2012
August 21, 2012
Winds Thy Messengers
Barton Swaim
Natural disasters as ministers of God.
August 21, 2012
August 21, 2012
All the Lonely People
Anthony Esolen
The corrosive & far-reaching fallout of the Sexual Revolution.
August 21, 2012
August 21, 2012
Smart Parenting XXVII. Applying Christ’s Beatitudes to Parenting: Righteousness
Fr. George Morelli
Blessed Are They Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness Sake for They Shall be Filled
August 18, 2012
August 18, 2012
Gore Vidal and the Sky God
Albert Mohler
What Vidal wrote is the way many cultural elites think.
August 9, 2012
August 9, 2012
A Religious Freedom Election
Wesley J. Smith
A court case in Colorado shows what’s at stake this fall.
August 9, 2012
August 9, 2012
Nihilism at the Core of the Colorado Shooting
John Carr
Our culture has to turn away from our romance with nihilism and back towards Christ
August 9, 2012
August 9, 2012
Commentary: Profiles in Moral Courage
Fr. George Morelli
Standing up for what is right.
August 9, 2012
August 9, 2012
July 2012
The New Martyrs In Syria
Fr. George Morelli
Christians will suffer in the Syrian conflict.
July 29, 2012
July 29, 2012
Selective Focusing
Fr. George Morelli
We all filter what we see.
July 31, 2012
July 31, 2012
Book Review: The Second Russian Revolution (1987-1991)
Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse
Moral renewal in Russia that threw off the Communist shackles.
July 18, 2012
July 18, 2012
Dismantling of a Culture
Kathryn Jean Lopez
America’s elites now disdain the rest of America
July 18, 2012
July 18, 2012
Freedom of Worship’s Assault on Freedom of Religion
Wesley J. Smith
Strident secularism is on the march and freedom of religion is the target, with secularist warriors attempting to drive religious practice behind closed doors by redefining religious liberty down to a hyper-restricted, “freedom of worship.”
July 18, 2012
July 18, 2012
Our Problem is Secularism
Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen)
A massive realignment in Christianity is occurring.
July 2, 2012
July 2, 2012
The End of America? The HHS Mandate’s Threat to Freedom [VIDEO]
Acton Institute
An attack on the Church is an attack on freedom.
July 2, 2012
July 2, 2012
The Republic is Finished and the America We Knew is Gone
Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse
When men scorn and ridicule the good, noble, and true, darkness is always the end.
July 2, 2012
July 2, 2012
Obamacare Ruling Reflects Technocratic Imperative
Wesley J. Smith
Not even a Romney election may reverse the cultural drift.
July 2, 2012
July 2, 2012
Ministry to Those with Alternative Lifestyles
Fr. George Morelli
What did the Church Fathers say about proper spiritual counsel?
July 2, 2012
July 2, 2012
The Need for Prayer in Our Lives
Fr. George Morelli
Prayer can have physical, psychological and spiritual benefits.
July 2, 2012
July 2, 2012
June 2012
On the Brevity of Life
Pedro Blas González
The art of living is not so easily mastered.
June 11, 2012
June 11, 2012
Smart Parenting XXVI. Applying Christ’s Beatitudes to Parenting: Blessed Are The Meek
Fr. George Morelli
Meekness as a source of strength.
June 1, 2012
June 1, 2012
May 2012
Everything in Moderation
Fr. George Morelli
Do all things in moderation.
June 1, 2012
June 1, 2012
+ His Holiness Pope Shenouda III - May His Memory Be Eternal!
Fr. George Morelli
Remembering a great Christian leader.
May 26, 2012
May 26, 2012
Redeeming the Time
Fr. Vasile Catalin Tudora
Time is not a rat race.
May 13, 2012
May 13, 2012
War and Peace in the Teachings of Christ
Fr. Vasile Catalin Tudora
Is harmony always a good thing?
May 13, 2012
May 13, 2012
Reflecting Back On Lent: The Uncomfortable Church
Fr. Vasile Catalin Tudora
Who cares about historical and theological accuracy when we can have our own happy version of the truth?
May 13, 2012
May 13, 2012
The New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia: Their Significance for People in the West
Sophia Moshura
The martyrs are meaningful to all Christians.
May 12, 2012
May 12, 2012
Lessons from Byzantium
Michael Auslin
The empire fell but did not have to.
May 11, 2012
May 11, 2012
The Ecumenical Patriarch is Right
Mustafa Akyol
Turkish nationalism and the persecution of religious minorities.
May 10, 2012
May 10, 2012
The Joy of Literature
Pedro Blas González
Man is a story teller.
May 10, 2012
May 10, 2012
An Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
Joseph Susanka
West meets East.
May 10, 2012
May 10, 2012
Chaplain’s Corner. God: The Source of Life’s Ultimate Meaning
Fr. George Morelli
The way of un-knowing can be the way of knowing.
May 2, 2012
May 2, 2012
Smart Parenting XXV. Applying Christ’s Beatitudes to Parenting: Blessed Are They Who Mourn
Fr. George Morelli
Blessed are those that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
May 2, 2012
May 2, 2012
March 2012
Chaplain’s Corner: Silence is Golden
Fr. George Morelli
The value of silence cuts across many religious traditions.
April 1, 2012
April 1, 2012
Healing Society: Revisiting Witnessing Christ in a Secular Age
Fr. George Morelli
There can be grievous spiritual danger for Christians in public display of their commitment to Christ.
April 1, 2012
April 1, 2012
How Church Helped Sign Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn Dodgers
Jamie Crawford
Religion shapes culture one courageous decision at a time..
March 17, 2012
March 17, 2012
An Era of New Martyrdom. Discrimination of Christians in Various Parts of the World
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk
"Our era is rightly called an era of new martyrdom, for in a whole number of countries, Christians are subjected to mass persecution and discrimination"
March 17, 2012
March 17, 2012
The Party’s Over
Mary Eberstadt
Mary Eberstadt on men, women, and what the sexual revolution has wrought
March 17, 2012
March 17, 2012
Church and Reich
Leander S. Harding
What happened to Christian under the Nazi Regime? The traditionalists went to concentration camps, many fell away and adopted the Nazi neo-paganism, and some clergy actively supported the Third Reich.
March 16,2012
March 16,2012
Our Prayerful Thanks to God for All Who Uphold Christian Moral Principles
Fr. George Morelli
Traditionalist Christians may differ in details, but they unified on the essentials.
March 16, 2012
March 16, 2012
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism—the New American Religion
Albert Mohler
Study: American teenagers...are virtually unable to offer any serious theological understanding.
March 16, 2012
March 16, 2012
Beware of the Petty Totalitarian Left
Mark Judge
State encroachment into private life always starts small.
March 16, 2012
March 16, 2012
Conscience Objections and Religious Liberty
Robert Royal
The logic of Obama's HHS mandates portends danger down the road if not reversed.
March 15, 2012
March 15, 2012
Christian Belief and the Medical Establishment, Part II
Fr. George Morelli
Under what circumstances do we ask God for help?
March 15, 2012
March 15, 2012
Christian Belief and the Medical Establishment, Part I
Fr. George Morelli
The practice of medicine needs a firm and coherent moral grounding.
March 15, 2012
March 15, 2012
Surpassing Human Justice: Enthroning Divine Justice
Fr. George Morelli
The cry for justice is heard around the world.
March 1, 2012
March 1, 2012
Chaplain’s Corner: Heroism Revisited
Fr. George Morelli
Be well disposed to the people around you.
March 1, 2012
March 1, 2012
February 2012
Chaplains Corner: Even the Thought is an Affront to God
Fr. George Morelli
Limiting the service of chaplains gives the impression that government administrators think religion is unimportant.
January 2, 2012
January 2, 2012
Smart Parenting XXIV Applying Christ’s Beatitudes to Parenting: Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
Fr. George Morelli
Becoming poor in spirit.
January 2, 2012
January 2, 2012
January 2012
Speak My Name
Benjamin T. Peck
Go therefore into all nations...
January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012
Engaged Monasticism
Fr. Peter-Michael Preble
We need a return to the monasticism of the 4th century.
January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012
Has Europe Lost Its Soul?
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
The religious roots of the market economy and of democratic capitalism...were produced by a culture saturated in the values of the Judaeo-Christian heritage, and market economics was originally intended to advance those values.
January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012
A Grim Christmas
Srdja Trifkovic
This Christmas let us spare a thought and say a prayer for countless Christian victims of Muslim brutality, over the centuries and in our own time.
January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012
Defending Intelligent Design
Joe McMaster
"This whole Darwinian story, it seems to me, has been very much oversold," says Phillip Johnson. "It is an imaginative story that has been spun on the basis of very little evidence."
January 12, 2012
January 12, 2012
The Favor of God Was Upon Him—Homily on the Circumcision of Christ, January 1, 2012
Fr. George Morelli
What are the works that we must do that follow from Christ's teachings?
January 3, 2012
January 3, 2012
Commitment for a New Year: Overcoming Rudeness
Fr. George Morelli
Treating people rudely violates their inherent dignity.
January 1, 2012
January 1, 2012
January 2012
Understanding Counseling in a Pastoral Setting
Fr. George Morelli
A presentation below was given to the Clergy Retreat of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America, November 08-11, 2011, in Scottsdale, AZ.
January 1, 2012
January 1, 2012
Philosophy and Contentment in the Age of Radical Skepticism
Pedro Blas González
"We have reached a point in Western history when common sense and our instinct for survival force us to ask: Can an entire age be spiritually and morally sick?"
December 31, 2011
December 31, 2011
Beware the ‘Rights of Nature’
Wesley J. Smith
Mother Earth has rights too! At least that’s what radical environmentalists say.
December 31, 2011
December 31, 2011
What Brings a World Into Being?
David Berlinski
How does the information latent in the fundamental laws of physics unfold itself to become a world? Apparently is just does.
December 31, 2011
December 31, 2011
Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness
Stephen L. Talbot
Evolutionists can't explain the purpose of organisms.
December 28, 2011
December 28, 2011
Political Discourse and Impugning Motives
Peter Wehner
"The tendency to attack motivations … is frequently a sign of intellectual laziness.”
December 28, 2011
December 28, 2011
An Upside-Down Family Tree
Mark Steyn
"The problem with the advanced West is not that it's broke but that it's old and barren."
December 26, 2011
December 26, 2011
The Limits of Secularism
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks
A society without faith is like one without art, beauty or grace, and no society without faith can endure for long.
December 24, 2011
December 24, 2011
Christmas Too Commercialized? Bah! Humbug!
Fr. Gregory Jensen
There's more to the commercialism than meets the eye.
December 24, 2011
December 24, 2011
Good Marriage XXIV. Trust: A Cornerstone of a Godly Marriage
Fr. George Morelli
Commitment and loyalty are the foundation of trust in marriage.
December 4, 2011
December 4, 2011
Remembrance of God
Fr. George Morelli
Being "Scrooge-like" is a spiritual illness with a cure.
December 5, 2011
December 5, 2011
November 2011
A European Victory for Ethical Stem Cell Research
Wesley J. Smith
European Union rules that embryonic stem cells and the products derived from them cannot be patented.
November 9, 2011
November 9, 2011
Christ: Our Model for Forgiveness
Fr. George Morelli
"Forgive one another as I have forgiven you."
November 5, 2011
November 5, 2011
Overcoming Bitterness
Fr. George Morelli
Bitterness impedes personal growth.
November 5, 2011
November 5, 2011
October 2011
The Missing Link: The Coessential Nature of Science and Faith
Nicholas Metrakos
Science and religion may have more in common than we think.
October 17, 2011
October 17, 2011
Free Market Sweden, Social Democratic America
Samuel Gregg
Two historic countries, moving in opposite -- and unexpected -- directions.
October 13, 2011
October 13, 2011
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, the New World Order, and Our longing for Dystopia
Pedro Blas González
"The great temptation and tragedy of contemporary society is our desire for happiness at all cost, and our goal of making the objective demands and contingencies of everyday life all but vanish."
October 11, 2011
October 11, 2011
American Challenges: The Blue Model Breaks Down
Walter Russell Mead
The blue model has been declining for thirty years already, and... is increasingly likely to bring on a crash.
October 11, 2011
October 11, 2011
New Blue Nightmare: Clarence Thomas and the Amendment of Doom
Walter Russell Mead
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "...has been pioneering the techniques and the ideas that could...conceivably topple the constitutionality of the post New Deal state."
October 11, 2011
October 11, 2011
When Christ rose again the third day according to the Scriptures
Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon
Which scriptures did Paul mean?
October 8, 2011
October 8, 2011
San Jose Articles Challenge UN Position on a Universal Right to Abortion
Touchstone Magazine
United Nations effort to impose pro-choice ideology world wide is challenged.
October 8, 2011
October 8, 2011
Obama Court Case Could Force Christian Schools, Churches to Employ HIV-Positive, Transgender Teacher
Ben Johnson
The Obama administration wants more control over Christian churches and schools.
October 7, 2011
October 7, 2011
On the Fall of Man
St. John Maximovitch
What does Genesis say about the Fall of man?
October 6, 2011
October 6, 2011
Why Pastors Must Be Free To Preach On Politics
John Sears
A freedom that must be handled judiciously and never taken away.
October 6, 2011
October 6, 2011
Smart Parenting XXIII. Coping with Bullying
Fr. George Morelli
A comprehensive but practical look at bullying and how to deal with it.
October 3, 2011
October 3, 2011
Compassion: The Forgotten Virtue
Fr. George Morelli
Compassion is a skill that can be developed by practice.
October 3, 2011
October 3, 2011
September 2011
Working Together in Charity
Fr. George Morelli
Any interaction we have with others, especially those who may differ with us should be based on the utmost charity that Christ showed Himself