Rating: 7.8|Votes: 13

Reading between the lines of the article “Enhancing the Role of the Ecumenical Patriarch”

Tamar Lomidze

Dennis Menos believes that “the Ecumenical Patriarch needs to be elevated to the rank of “head” of the Orthodox East, with authority to act and speak for the entire Church” and that His Holiness “will need to be freed of all responsibility for serving also as the Primate of the Church of Constantinople”.

Rating: 10|Votes: 8

The Amsterdam Symposium: An Abuse of Authority?

Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse

So why did they meet? It’s a fair question to ask because some of the participants draw their ideas from the left wing of the dominant political culture rather than Orthodox tradition. Secondly, since the participants listed the institutions with which they are affiliated, those institutions lent their authority to the symposium whether they intended to or not.

Rating: 8.9|Votes: 17

Soft-Pedaling Christian Morality: A Review of a Curious Review

Fr. John Whiteford

Of course we should deal with people who struggle with that sin pastorally, just like we do people who struggle with alcoholism, adultery, drug abuse, or any other passion that is especially difficult to overcome. But if we fail to communicate what sin is, it is impossible for those whom we have confused to overcome sins that they do not recognize to be such.

Rating: 8.2|Votes: 264

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Rating: 9.5|Votes: 15

“Can There Be Anything Higher Than to Live in Love?”

On the Search for Faith, Holy Mount Athos, Elder Ephraim of Philotheou, and Orthodoxy in the U.S.

Prof. Nikos Stergiou, George Daliaris

I came to the conviction that behind everything in the world stands Divine providence. Nothing happens by chance. I rely on concrete data.