Gerry Armstrong
The universal problem with what Scientologists are doing to each other is their intention and system to eliminate or suppress people’s consciences, and their relative success in doing so. This generates a condition of functional psychopathy in which lying is easy and hurting others can be a point of honor.
Rod Dreher
Rating: 9,7|Votes: 3
The essay posted on the Orthodox Church in America’s youth ministry page — the one by Boston priest Fr. Robert Arida, calling for a rethink on homosexuality — has really stirred the pot among the relatively small community of American Orthodox.
Sergei Khudiev
Rating: 9,5|Votes: 2
There are questions which we cannot avoid and from which we cannot hide in a fog of rhetorical questions and vague allusions. Basically, there is the question of whether single-sex cohabitation is a sin which separates people from the Church, or not.
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
Living right in the epicentre of the global Ebola epidemic is of course quite challenging. The slightest mistake in one’s daily routine can be fatal. Sometimes I wake up in the morning with a cough, or any other unusual symptom and I think to myself: “This is it, I have Ebola.”
Rating: 8,5|Votes: 6
It is also contrary to our Tradition to write about matters of faith or piety in ways that are intentionally ambiguous—this is rather the approach of liberal Protestantism.