Rev. Gregory Jensen is the pastor of Ss Cyril & Methodius Orthodox Church and Orthodox chaplain at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a professor at St Sophia Ukranian Orthodox Theological Seminary where he teaches classes in ethics and young adult faith development. Fr Gregory is the author of The Cure for Consumerism published by the Acton Institute.
Posts by Rev. Gregory Jensen
October 09, 2020
Recently, Nicholas Kristof’s published an op-ed about the Social Progress Index, a multi-year study of the quality of life in 163 countries. Kristof writes, “New data suggest that the United States is one of just a few countries worldwide that is slipping backward.”
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February 06, 2019
In
The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity (Encounter Books, 2018), Daniel J. Mahoney confronts a central heresy of our age, the “remarkably truncated view of human beings” that fails to “acknowledge the hierarchy of goods and values that characterize the moral order and the life of the soul.”
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January 30, 2013
Several of my friends on Facebook pages posted a link to David Dunn’s
Huffington Post essay on gun control (An Eastern Orthodox Case for Banning Assault Weapons). As Dylan Pahman posted earlier today, Dunn, an Eastern Orthodox Christian, is to be commended for bringing the tradition of the Orthodox Church into conversation with contemporary issues such as gun control.
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May 03, 2011
Over the last several years I find myself more and more being drawn into conversation about religion—specifically, Orthodox Christianity—and economics. Originally, my interest in the economic side of the conversation was minimal.
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February 03, 2011
The following is my latest article for
Acton Commentary:
Stewardship and the Human Vocation to Work
By Rev. Gregory Jensen
Paying the bills and contributing to the collection basket are laudable.
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May 13, 2010
This week’s Acton Commentary:
Our economic life is concerned with more than just the objective exchange of goods and services. Far from being morally neutral, it is an expression of how we understand our dependence on God and neighbor and is the means by which we fulfill, or not, our obligations toward them.
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March 19, 2010
On his blog, Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowan links to an article about game show, The Game Of Death, that was recently broadcast on French television. According to the article (“Torture ‘Game Show’ Draws Nazi Comparison“) the program, “had all the trappings of a traditional television quiz show, with a roaring crowd and a glamorous and well-known hostess.”
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February 15, 2010
Like many, my first encounter with Orthodox theology was intoxicating. Here, finally, in the works of thinkers such as Vladimir Lossky, John Meyendorf and Alexander Schmemann and others I found an intellectually rigorous approach to theology that was biblical and patristic in its sources, mystical in its orientation and beautiful in its language.
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