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Russian Orthodox Church Turns From Kremlin Ally to Critic ? NYTimes.com
2012-01-01 16:25:00 Patriarch Kirill is by no means the only religious critic of the government since the elections, and certainly not the toughest. “People of the most varied convictions are now gathering on the square, but they are united by one thing, their unwillingness to live like this any longer,” Archpriest Aleksei Uminsky, a popular Moscow priest ...
By: 1913 Intel
Now I Get It?.The REAL Trinity
2009-06-30 02:54:00 Ah. It just struck me this evening. There IS such a thing as a Trinity that is supported by church doctrine, tradition and history. But it is none too holy. Posted in Christianity, God, Gospel, Orthodoxy, Religion Tagged: Babylon, Caesar, Doctrine, Holy Trinty
By: Sharp Iron
Glenn Beck?s lesbian caller confronts the gay orthodoxy
2009-03-07 00:30:00 When you receive successive e-mails from readers forwarding the same e-mail, it’s usually something worth blogging about. A lesbian called into Glenn Beck’s show to share her experiences coming out of the closet. Her story will seem mighty familiar to many of those who read this blog: since I came out of my conservative closet, ...
By: GayPatriot
From Orthodoxy to fundamentalism
2008-05-29 09:44:00 The current Judaism is an aberration. Rabbis introduced its most prominent concept, that of the fence around the law, when Jews went into the Exile. The gentile influence suddenly became great, the option of purifying oneself in the Temple was absent, and so the rabbis developed an immense body of legislation to protect against inadvertent ...
By: Samson Blinded
Orthodoxy- christiansquoting.org.uk
2008-03-23 10:36:00 People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad . . . The orthodox Church never took the tame course or accepted the conventions; the orthodox Church was never respectable . . . It is easy to be a madman: it is easy to be a heretic. It is always easy to let the age have its head; the difficult thing is to keep one's own. It is always easy to be a modernist; as it is easy to be a snob . . . It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands. To have fallen into any one of the fads from Gnosticism to Christian Science would indeed have been obvious and tame. But to avoid them all has been one whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull heresies sprawling and prostrate, the wild truth reel...
By: Christian Quoter
African American Muslims: A Possible Future
2008-02-21 08:23:00 In past posts I have discussed the importance of heritage, culture and history as they relate to various peoples all over the world. But the severity of this issue may not be understood by all. In fact some of us may just think, heritage, culture and a person’s historical lineage are interesting but benign facts ...
By: Wa Salaam
Humble Orthodoxy Hitting The Mark
2008-02-07 23:32:00 "Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves."- Matthew 10:16If there were ever a time when this admonition needed heeding, that time is now. In way too many cases prideful posturing and bickering has distracted from the reasoned dialogue that is desperately needed among the growing number of younger, Reformed, evangelicals. At the center of this move toward reasoned dialogue is a group that call themselves New Attitude. Their motto is the phrase, "Humble Orthodoxy", and they are hitting right on the mark.I grew up as a Bible-believing, king-james only, dispensational, premillenial, fundamentalist, seperated, baptist. I was a pharisee in training. I had a chip on my shoulder as big as Gibraltar and it has taken many years for me to see at an older age what the Lord has shown these young men who are several years my junior. I support what they are doing and it is my hope that instead of my young seminarian freinds looking...
By: Two Institutions
Challenges for Orthodoxy in Alaska
2007-12-21 20:36:00 Reading further in the book I've been paging through, Alaskan Missionary Spirituality, I came to a part discussing the history of American efforts to assimilate the native populations.After Alaska was transferred to the United States, the influence of the Orthodox began to wane considerably. With the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, a variety of problems arose for the Alaska mission. All financial support ended, some Soviet officials began to lay claim to land titles in the state, and when the American mission declared itself administratively independent of the Russian Orthodox Church, they were labeled schismatics by the Moscow Patriarchate. It was only fifty years later that they finally gained their independence, establishing the autocephalous Orthodox Church in America.There were other problems as well. Mass migration of Eastern Europeans to the east coast of the U.S. meant that Orthodoxy’s center in the country was shifted to the major cities of the East, leaving Alaska out...
By: café de soirée
Orthodoxy (How to Discern 3)
2007-11-15 05:45:00 The Roman church has for a long time believed that only the “clergy” may interpret the Bible. In fact, until recently, they did not even allow translations of the Bible into the common language of the people because they did not believe that ordinary people were equipped to read the Bible, let alone interpret it.Since the Reformation, the Bible has been made available to ordinary people and now anyone in the free world is able to read, study and own Bibles. But the pendulum has swung to the other extreme so that today every Tom, Dick and Harry feels he has the right to interpret the Bible as he feels fit. This is an equal but opposite error to that of the Roman clerical system.It is therefore important that we understand that while each of us has the privilege of reading the Bible for ourselves, no individual has the right to interpret the Scriptures as he wishes. We can all understand the Bible, and the Spirit will lead us into all Truth, but it is not up to us to formulate our...
Conservative Orthodoxy and Voodoo Economics
2007-10-17 21:04:00 I’ve often noted that a major problem with the modern conservative movement and the Republican Party is that they put ideology before reality. As I recently noted, this can be seen in their rejection of science, including their views on evolution and global warming, their disputed claims about Iraq such as the presence of WMD ...
By: Liberal Values
Encounters with tradition (6): from Restoration to Orthodoxy
2007-07-10 00:35:00 A guest-post by Daniel GreesonI grew up in a small sect (non-institutional churches of Christ) within the Stone-Campbell Movement, known otherwise as the ?Restoration Movement.? My grandfather and father are both ministers within this movement and at the age of 16 or so I began the process of preparing for a life of preaching. I was that kid who sat in high school with a commentary on Isaiah and an open Bible, fiercely scribbling notes for my next sermon. I was shown a lot of grace those first few years at my home congregation and other congregations throughout the state of Arkansas.It was during these formational years that I ran across C. S. Lewis and quickly devoured The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. This was the first time I had seriously engaged with someone from outside of my tradition, and I came away having learned a lot and questioning a lot. In the group I grew up in, we were the only ones who had the Truth, and all other denominations were wrong about pretty mu...
Lesbianism and Orthodoxy
2007-07-08 07:53:00 Today's Daf Yomi is Yevamos 66Rabbi Yaakov Culi (1685-1732) writes[1] that it is debatable whether women are included in the prohibition of destroying seeds or not. He writes that according to Rabbeinu Tam, since women are not included in the comment of procreation, they are not forbidden to destroy human seeds, while according to Nachmanides, despite the fact that women are not commanded to procreate, they are still proscribed against destroying human seed. Amongst the medieval sages, there are two explanation of what exactly is the proscribed act of lesbianism[2]. According to the Rivan[3], the forbidden act of lesbianism is when a woman emits the seed injected into her by husband in the context of intimate relations with another woman. According to another explanation cited in Tosafos[4], the act of lesbianism mentioned in the Talmud is the act of Tribadism. Rabbi Yosef Chaim of Baghdad (1835-1909) writes[5] that even according to the first opinion, the prohibition of lesbianism...
Mere Orthodoxy » The Kingdom Triangle: The Decade?s Most Important Book
2007-06-01 00:00:00 Mere Orthodoxy » The Kingdom Triangle: The Decade?s Most Important Book Read a review [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: TrueGrit
The Orthodoxy Test
2007-05-29 23:37:00 I'm sure this has already made its way around the 'net, but I just saw it for the first time today. Here are my results:Left Wing Modern Orthodox: 7%Right Wing Modern Orthodox: 45%Left Wing Yeshivish/Chareidi: 64%Right Wing Yeshivish/Chareidi: 84%This means you're: Right Wing YeshivishTry it out....click on the image to get to the quiz.
By: Re-Jew-Venate
Short of ultra-orthodoxy
2007-04-11 22:00:00 Every notion turns into its opposite when taken over the edge. To avoid boundary effects, take no idea to the extreme. Enjoy life a bit less than you can, spend a bit less than you can afford. Public opinion considers criminals with a spark of humanity almost good, and righteous people with a bit of earthly desires - hypocrites. Criminality and righteousness are two extremes, and a step back disqualifies them. Antinomial anarchy and free market capitalism are unworkable extremes, but a bit of regulation turns them into comfortable and prosperous free societies. Anarchy needs basic laws, and free market economy – anti-monopoly regulation. People grow used to comfort, and pay less attention to defending their freedoms, at which point they are overtaken, either by aliens, peacefully through immigration or violently through war, or by dictators. Less than free market is still called capitalism, less than “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his work” - soci...
By: Samson Blinded
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