Shimon Cowen – ABC Religion and Ethics – 9 May 2012 (Source: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2012/05/09/3498817.htm) Politics, understood as a moral vocation, requires humility to accept truth – and being wary of the prejudices that might lead one to dismiss it or the fears that might keep one from affirming it. Over the years, I have frequently studied a famous essay by the …
Read More »Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “‘Go’, Jesus told the captain. ‘Let it be as you believed’. (Matthew 8:13) This person who comes to Christ in today’s Gospel Lesson, dear brethren, is far from being simple, uneducated, jobless individual. On the contrary, he is a …
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Greg Donnelly MLC Parliament of New South Wales 29th April 2013 Having failed to obtain the necessary support for physician-assisted suicide/euthanasia legislation in other states and territories the Greens have now turned their attention to New South Wales. Nobody should be surprised. They promised but failed to introduce a bill in 2011 and 2012. With a federal election coming up …
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MEDIA RELEASE Friday, 26th April 2013 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has urged the government to reject the recommendation of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) to publically fund abortion drug RU486. ACL spokesperson Wendy Francis said subsidising the controversial drug – a recommendation likely to be made by PBAC today – ignores the human rights of the unborn and …
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Theseus and the Minotaur It is difficult to imagine that there can be any reader of Vema, Greek or (like me) Barbarian, who has not known the story of Theseus and the Minotaur from infancy. But, of course, there is one reader, because there always is. So, briefly, ignoring the many variants and sticking to the bits that will concern …
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Author: Fr George Dimopoulos Source: Orthodox Sermons for all the Sundays of the Year – Volume I Publisher: Christian Orthodox Editions “You are the light of the world”. (Matthew 5:1) Today our Church celebrates the memory of the Fathers of our Church, who in the year 451AD assembled in Chalcedon of Bithynia for the Fourth Ecumenical Council. Six hundred …
Read More »Reporter: Margarita Papantoniou July 9th, 2013 The Vice President of the Greek government and Foreign Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, sent a message of concern, friendship and sympathy to the people of Egypt right after his meeting with the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodoros II, at the Foreign Ministry. “Greece is connected to Africa with a strong historical and cultural …
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July 8, 2013 CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Following the shooting death of a priest in Northern Sinai, Christians in Upper Egypt and elsewhere are living in fear after four Coptic Christians were killed near Luxor in the wake of the deposing of Mohamed Morsi as president. “I am too scared to leave – I haven’t been able to go …
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ORTHODOX MINISTER PUT AN ECCENTRIC SPIN ON LIFE Fr John Maitland Moir, 1924 – 2013 At Edinburgh University, the flag flew at half-mast in honour of Father John Maitland Moir, the Orthodox Chaplain to the university. His life had elements of the popularised, practical and unconventional Christianity of C.S. Lewis, to which he added layers of spirituality and asceticism. He …
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Dan Wooding and John Tsambazis reporting: Violence erupts at an Orthodox mission in Freetown, Sierra Leone, which is run by a former Australian rock star, and Greek Orthodox priest A revolt broke out recently against the clergy and mission staff at Waterloo Mission in Sierra Leone, which is run by Brother Themi Adams, a former Australian rock star who once …
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ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.