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Whitworth University will be hosting Archbishop Benjamin of the Orthodox Church in America on Monday.

The historical Christian Church from the beginning and for the first 1,000 years was essentially one church known as the Orthodox Church.

There were incidents of Roman emperors, Russian tzars and Byzantine emperors who have done things “in the name of the church” that were motivated by economic or political circumstances and the church spoke out against them, however not in every situation.

To answer the question, quite simply, Greek Orthodox is Eastern Orthodox.

At some point in the last decade our society quietly morphed from a world of various religious dogmas to one where religion is becoming passé.

I shouldn’t be surprised by this.

I saw it coming several decades ago, but I didn’t really think that I would live to see it.

For many Christians Palm Sunday was last weekend. But for the Orthodox Church community, this Sunday will mark the beginning of Holy Week. The Orthodox Church calendar begins on Sept. 1 and ends on Aug. 31.  Easter is determined on the vernal equinox and the phase of the moon. It …