But there is still no formal opening decision, no confirmed legal framework, and no timetable. Our latest report breaks down what has changed — and what has not.
#Halki #Turkey #Istanbul #EcumenicalPatriarchate #Bartholomew #Erdogan #Orthodoxy #ReligiousFreedom #Greece #TheLevantFiles
https://www.thelevantfiles.org/2026/06/halki-moves-back-into-view-but-no.html
"Russia says it defends “Orthodox civilization.”
Today, it struck the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra – one of the most sacred Orthodox sites in Eastern Europe.
A church founded in the 11th century.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A place that survived empires, invasions, occupations and war.
Russia does not defend Orthodoxy. It uses it as propaganda. Russia’s lies are obscene."
- Maria Drutska
#Russia #Orthodoxy #RussiaUkraineWar
#3goodthings #ThreeGoodThings
Divine liturgy was beautiful yesterday. It is medicine #orthodoxy
Went for coffee with someone that I have recently met. I love getting to know #newfriends
#woodworking bench is put together. Next it's varnish
"The problem is that honest efforts to preserve Buddhism can head down a slipperly slope to rigid, sterile orthodoxy. This has happened over and over through Buddhist history. As we slide further down that slope, essential principles and functions are forgotten. Experiential understanding is replaced with scholarship; then scholarship is replaced with text-worship. Living practice turns into rote ritual performance."
https://vividness.live/responsibility
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One of the hardest things you can be on this planet is a Christian. (Except in America—they have no idea what they're doing anyway.)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Preface (1893)
More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #GeorgeBernardShaw #censorship #challenge #establishment #heterodoxy #institutions #orthodoxy #progress #statusquo
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
THE HERETIC
A kind of loneliness comes from being misunderstood by your family. My mother wants me to do Sandhya Vandanam. Chant the Gayatri Mantra. Face east. Fold my hands the right way. She wants a performance she can witness and take credit for. I understand this. I refuse to comply. I am too tired and too old for rebellion. I call it self-preservation, a refusal to hollow out what little interior life I have managed to build by filling it with someone else's beliefs. They call me a heretic.. a […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/13/the-heretic/
Un gouverneur vint faire un discours sur son "opération spéciale" qu'il avait en grande estime.
Je lui réponds : vous vous justifiez vous-mêmes devant les hommes; mais Dieu connaît vos cœurs; c'est pourquoi ce qui est grand devant les hommes, est en abomination devant Dieu.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/parade-militaire-du-9-mai-l-armee-russe-affronte-une-force-agressive-soutenue-par-l-otan-affirme-vladimir-poutine-20260509
#poutine #orthodoxy #orthodoxe #chretien #christian
Le président russe a affirmé samedi que l’armée russe affronte en Ukraine des forces «agressives» soutenues par l’Otan, lors d’un discours sur la place Rouge pour les commémorations de la victoire contre l’Allemagne nazie.
Men insist most vehemently upon their certainties when their hold upon them has been shaken. Frantic orthodoxy is a method for obscuring doubt.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ReinholdNiebuhr #Anxiety #Certainty #Doubt #Orthodoxy #Religion
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