Word: orthodox
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...York Post columnist complained shrilly that Christians, in death, get short shrift. "To so many media figures, Christians ? specifically evangelicals, orthodox Catholics and others who believe in traditional Judeo-Christian moral teaching ?- are not victims, but victimizers," wrote the columnist, Rod Dreher. "If Larry Gene Ashbrook, guns blazing, had walked into a synagogue, gay bar, an abortion clinic or even a black church service, there is no doubt what the government, cultural and media elite?s reaction would be." Dreher is right about one thing: Ashbrook?s massacre is a hate crime, and might even have been stamped as such...
Rosh Hashanah, the celebration of the Jewish new year, began Friday night and ended Saturday night for Reform Jews. For Orthodox and Conversative congregations, the holiday ended Sunday at sundown...
What about other reasons cited for the law? Stern of the American Jewish Congress, who helped write the bill, says Orthodox Jewish and Native American families should not have to beg officials not to perform autopsies on their relatives. He cited a case in Eagle Pass, Texas, in which a federal judge ruled in favor of an autopsy on a member of the Kickapoo tribe who justice of the peace Martha Chacon believed might have been murdered. The judge said the state's interest in finding the truth trumped the tribe's religious concerns. In the end, though, Chacon decided...
Back in the spring, I wrote about the travails of installing the free operating system Linux. Since then, I've got e-mail daily from folks who want to know how it's going; in their way, Linux's adherents are as evangelical as any member of the orthodox Macintosh religion. Others--who, I guess, didn't read between my lines--wanted to know if they should use Linux instead of Windows or the Mac's operating system. That second question is far easier to answer than the first: for most of the laypeople who read this column...
...Spyridon's successor is Demetrios Trakatellis, 71, a Greek senior bishop with a Harvard degree. The reversal's immediate cause may have been fiscal: American congregations had begun withholding contributions to the church. But a larger issue looms. Spyridon's predecessor considered founding, with other Eastern believers, an American Orthodox Church--a step away from Constantinople's authority that some still find attractive. "The mother raises the daughter, but eventually the daughter leaves home," says Popps. Bartholomew may have hoped his prickly prelate would forestall such talk. But in the end Spyridon may only have spurred dissent--and thus...