Fr Thomas Hopko said the following about tolerance, in a paper read to an Orthodox mission conference ten years ago. I think it's very good and worth repeating:
Tolerance is always in order when it means that we coexist peacefully with people whose ideas and manners differ from our own, even when to do so is to risk the impression that truth is ( Read more... )

The news reports of the death and burial of Slobodan Milosevic, erstwhile leader of Serbia and the rump Yugoslavia, have been quite astounding for their malice, vitriol, and sheer mendaciousness ( Read more... )

Today I went to a meeting in a rather posh hotel on the outskirts of Johannesburg ( Read more... )

Before I was on LJ I entered something in another diary at
Fall of a tyrant (if you can't find it just go to Google and enter "strijdom tyrant ( Read more... )

Someone posted an article from the Spectator on a newsgroup I read ( Read more... )