Michael Astley
We are all sinners when we start off, and I know that I have remained so but I’m not about to walk away for that reason, however uncomfortable the struggle may seem at times, and to anybody who has spent some time teetering on the edge of Orthodoxy but hasn’t made the leap, and who has survived reading this far without becoming bored or too affronted to continue, I urge you to consider the reasons for your own inertia and ask yourself whether they justify your continued separation.
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“From my swamp, bogged down to the waist, I cry out to others: ‘Don’t you come here!’ It is not as if I stood on a mountain and taught other people. No, I’m bogged down to my waist in this swamp and I warn them: ‘Hey you, keep away from here!’
“Every day I am happy that I can do this job,” he says, eyes sparkling, at the celebration of his jubilee at the premises of his Asian-African Welfare Center, next to the church of St. Joseph in Ashrafieh, where Father Theo bases his efforts to assist migrant domestic workers in Lebanon.
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In the essay "Orthodoxy and Human Rights," Anastasios takes a critical view of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and the later development of these declarations into exhaustive lists of economic, social, and political rights.
Chris Banescu
Endless streams of “enlightened” pastors and priests or priestesses have interpreted and re-interpreted the Scriptures in ways that significantly diluted or distorted the actual teachings of Jesus Christ and the fullness of the Christian faith as taught and practiced by the ancient Orthodox Christian Church since the time of the original Apostles.
