Fr. Damick: This Holy Earth – Ecological Vision In The Cosmic Cathedral
Theology is an unwelcome guest at international symposiums on environmental concerns which are largely occupied by data crunching in the service of politicians, international corporate interests, and...
View ArticleEcumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s message for World Environment Day
It’s too bad that Constantinople won’t dispense with the Progressive rhetoric (first paragraph) because it creates the impression that Orthodoxy endorses the shabby thinking behind the ideology. (On...
View ArticleCatholics and Orthodox report promising progress in latest round of unity talks
I was going to post the release below a few days ago but decided against because, well, it had that ring of Constantinopolitan triumphalism to it. I’m jaded by Constantinople’s global warming...
View ArticleReligion and the Environment: The Link Between Survival and Salvation
I want our leadership to provide thoughtful analysis on cultural issues but too often we get the thin gruel of popular piety dressed up in Church-speak. Take this latest missive from Constantinople on...
View ArticleEnviromentalism as Religion: Doesn’t the EP get it?
Do you want to understand why the Ecumenical Patriarch’s coddling of environmentalism is not only wrong-headed but dangerous? First read Environmentalism as Religion in the New Atlantis magazine. Then...
View ArticleGlobe and Mail: Can environmentalism be saved from itself?
The Globe and Mail published in Toronto, Canada on the intellectual bankruptcy of the Global Warming movement and how a handful of ideological activists have nearly buried responsible concern for the...
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Patriarch Calls on World to Reject Nuclear Power
Source: H KAΘHMEPINH Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios has called on the world to reject nuclear energy, following the problems Japan has suffered with its reactors in the wake of Friday’s earthquake....
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IOCC Stands Ready to Offer Aid Following Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) has assembled its emergency response personnel to assess the humanitarian needs and possible response to a massive 8.9 magnitude...
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Bartholomew I to Japan and the World: Enough Nuclear Energy
Source: Asia News | NAT da Polis Istanbul (AsiaNews) – A vibrant and heartfelt appeal to States to abandon the use of nuclear energy: this is the message sent by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to...
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John Couretas. Greek Patriarch: No Nukes
With the terrible human toll from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami catastrophe only now being comprehended, and the grave follow on crisis at the country’s nuclear power plants unfolding by the hour, the...
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How Do We Comprehend Natural Disasters Like Earthquakes and Tsunamis?
This essay below that Fr. David Hudson sent along is timely. I have a small parish now which means that after the Divine Liturgy we always have a discussion about any topic that people want to talk...
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Humility, Prudence, and Earth Day
Source: Acton Institute | John Couretas At a World Council of Churches conference last year on the French-Swiss border, much was made of the “likelihood of mass population displacement” driven by...
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Bartholomew I: “Peace is a Matter of Choice”
This is sure to warm the heart of religious liberals who are always on prowl looking for new ways to establish their righteousness. Global warming is disintegrating like the Death Star penetrated by...
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Fr. Michael Butler: Orthodoxy and Environmentalism [AUDIO]
As a companion to the text of His Beatitude Metropolitan Jonah’s address (“Ascestism and the Consumer Society“) at Acton University published here, we’re posting the audio from a lecture by the Very...
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The False Promise of Green Energy [VIDEO]
Economist Andrew Morris on Patriarch Bartholomew’s ideas on sustainable energy: “[H]e’s asking the wrong questions.” Source: Acton Institute Power Blog | HT: Koinonia For PowerBlog readers, we’re...
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