Orthodox Christianity Videos I Watched During Lent, And An Essay

 This recurring illness kept me fairly lethargic during Lent. This was the most erratic period of posting on this blog in 5 years. Take them or leave. I give them to Orthodox Christian readers to enjoy. Others, I hope get an education.

 Does the Church support human rights?

 The fallacy of Pascal's Wager; I highly recommend this one. Nietzsche attacked Pacal's Wager. It does not apply (cannot apply) to Orthodoxy.

 Why a Protestant idea is heresy:

 Response to Protestant Arguments Against Orthodoxy

 Orthodox Priest responds to Jay Dyer

 What to wear to an Orthodox Church

 The differences between the Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and Protestants

 

A reading list: 

Salvation:

 How it is growing in America:

 The essay: Holy Orthodoxy: “To Do Justice, to Love Mercy, to Walk Humbly with Your God”

A fair legal system, effective law enforcement, secure borders, and a robust military are necessary East of Eden, in this our fallen human community. Nevertheless, the Orthodox theological tradition gives primacy to the fundamental dignity and worth of every human being—because, as one of our funeral hymns puts it, “even though I bear the scars of my sins, I am an image of Your ineffable glory.” Most importantly, the Gospel teaches that Christ will judge us by how we will have treated the bearers of the divine Image, whom he calls “the least of my brothers”: the poor, the hungry, the stranger, and the imprisoned (Mat 25:31–46).

Patriotism—that is, working for the spiritual, cultural, and material prosperity of our nation and for its good name abroad—is natural and good; and all those to whom we, the people, entrust limited and temporary civil authority, should be held to that standard. But Christians answer to a higher calling: above all, they are “citizens of heaven” (Phil 3:20) having “no abiding city” in this age (Heb 13:14), and “dwelling in their own countries, but simply as sojourners,” with “every foreign land as their native country, and every land of their birth as a land of strangers” (Epistle to Diognetus, 5). Paraphrasing the greeting of St Clement of Rome’s Epistle to the Corinthians, our identity is that of “the Church of God sojourning (ἡ ἐκκλησία τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ παροικοῦσα)” in 21st-century America: Orthodoxy is not an ornamental addition to whatever one construes as “American identity.”

 

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