OrthoChristian.com, the English-language side of the site Pravoslavie.ru, reported that Igumen Pankraty, the Abbot of the great Valaam Monastery, ordered his monks to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or be kicked out of the monastery with zero means of support. The translation in English reads as follows: All brothers prepare for a full vaccination. The first […]
This is basically a lift-and-copy from a really interesting piece that appears on Russian Faith. We will excerpt from it, but we encourage our readers to visit that site to read more about this issue, and to broaden and deepen their knowledge about what is going on by our faithless hierarchs enforcing silly and dishonest […]
One of the ways both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches acknowledge as “participating in someone else’s sin” is “By silence.” According to this idea, if I know about someone doing something that is sinful and I do not say anything about it to him or to his priest, or if the person is a […]
Part I and Part II of this series discuss the repeated attempts by agencies within the Orthodox Church to justify the hierarch’s complicity with secular, often Godless, authorities that resulted in closure or severe restrictions on Orthodox Christian church activity in the US during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today we do a full analysis of the greatest debate of the 2oth century – the Bahnsen/Stein Debate. Hopefully we will cover the many misunderstandings that arise from various sectors concerning the transcendental argument, the nature of proofs and evidences, the compatibility of philosophy with Orthodoxy, and especially this form of argumentation, the word-concept fallacy, calvinism and much more. Part 2 of the other talk will be up later tomorrow or the day after.
In previous this piece, we observed the stupendous, but intentionally created, ignorance among students at Columbia University, one of America’s Ivy League institutions of higher education.
The students were asked if they could name all five types of liberty protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution. The text of the Amendment and the list of the freedoms is given again here for reference:
