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Anxiety & Unemployment - October 2011
Dear Blessed People of God, This month OCN kicks off a new series of programming that we hope you will find enjoyable, informative, and above all, inspiring. The first month will cover issues that refer to one of the most important concerns facing people today throughout the world according to recent studies. Morality and Popular Culture - November 2011
Is there a difference between being “good” and being “moral”? Popular culture seems to cast a wide net on what it means to be a “good person.” It goes a step further by suggesting that some things we as Orthodox consider to be unhealthy are actually what make a person “normal”. Popular culture also insists that a person needs certain character traits in order to be a “good person” that maybe conflict with what Orthodox believe are good traits. So this is the topic we are going to cover this month. God has sanctified us with the the TRUTH but how many of us understand this? The True Light of Christmas - December 2011
Santa Claus is coming to town...Merry Christmas..Happy Holidays...Christ is Born! So just what are we supposed to say when we greet someone this season? The Hinshaw's recent work in Ethiopia
Battling childhood cancer
Remembering 9/11OCN remembers the tragedy of 9/11 this week, speaking with Father Icon - Eikona of Agios Nikolaos by Tommaso Antonino Aiello
Extended Interviews
Orthodoxy and Homosexuality
Romania - Dracula Is Dead
Food & Faith: Feed the Body & Nurture the Soul
The intersection of religion, politics and social freedoms, part two
The intersection of religion, politics and social freedoms, part one
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From the desk of Father Chris Metropulos, Executive Director of the Orthodox Christian Network
Basketball-sized tumors, colostomies covered by old plastic bags, an HIV-positive woman who’s husband and 3 children have already died of the disease. These are some of the experiences Drs. Jane and Dan Hinshaw had when they went on a three week mission trip to Ethiopia. Join them as they share what they saw, did and learned. When we hear about “missions,” many of us picture scenes of foreign countries. But there are a growing number of mission parishes right here in America. Fr. Mark T. Mancuso of St. Elizabeth the New-Martyr Orthodox Church of Cayce, South Carolina, talks about the joys and struggles of a mission parish in the USA. 
Dean Yianis, father to a 6 year-old named Theofanis who is battling Neuroblastoma, a rare type of childhood cancer, joins Fr. Chris to talk about his family’s experience with this disease and its impact on their spiritual lives. But first, Christ commanded us to visit those in prison, but what are we as Orthodox communities offering to prisoners? Chaplain Patrick Tutella is back on the show to encourage developing local prison ministries..jpg)
Rafael Barberg who was at Ground Zero on 9/11. We’ll also hear from Anthoula Katsimatides, whose brother John died in the Towers and Fr. Mark Arey on the reconstruction of St Nicholas Church the only house of worship destroyed on that historic day. Special for this week - listen to the full interview from each guest.
This week on CRTL, Fr. Thomas Hopko weighs in on the controversial topic of homosexuality and Orthodoxy. To read more on Fr. Hopko's opinion, order your copy of 
Former United States ambassador to Romania Jim Rosapepe is on the show this week to talk about Romania’s amazing journey through Fascism, Communism and Democracy. Rosapepe discussion includes the Romanian Orthodox Church (the dominant cultural religious institution in the country) and its key role in the survival of Romania as a nation over the centuries. Buy your copy of Dracular is Dead from the author's 
A doctor who once weighed 467 pounds joins us today to talk about his incredible journey back to health and happiness. Buy your copy of My Big Fat Greek Diet from 
Listen this week to hear from Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish journalist who asks, “Is Islam incompatible with freedom?” Join us for part one of a provocative discussion on religion’s role and responsibility in politics and social freedoms. Buy your copy of 
Listen this week to hear from Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish journalist who asks, “Is Islam incompatible with freedom?” Join us for part one of a provocative discussion on religion’s role and responsibility in politics and social freedoms. Buy your copy of 