Topic: Looking for reviews of the AOI (USA) Blog

[Fr. George]

What are people's impressions (thoughts on, reviews, etc.) of "The Observer" (the AOI USA blog)?
http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/

[FormerReformer]

I check on it quite often (I have a wide taste in blogs). A little conservative, but less pushing the agenda than some other blogs. Also a good place to run into some of our posters in the comments section.

[Shiny]

I love reading Fr. Jacobse's posts from that site.

[augustin717]

AOI, Monomakhos and OCA Truth are the worst. And Touchstone.

[Cavaradossi]

http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2012/02/orthodox-bishops-assembly-silent-on-moral-issues/
http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/2012/02/orthodox-bishops-speak-out-against-hhh-mandate/

What a joke. Had these clowns kept their traps shut for just a day...

I'm with Isa

LOL. The difference a day makes.

[Shiny]

I'm with Isa

LOL. The difference a day makes.

You got a source for that quote? Trying to find it...

[Ionnis]

I dislike it.  A sectarian gossip rag, just like Monomakhos.

[Shiny]

Hmm I'd love for Fr. Jacobse or any other writer on that site to come on OC.net and address the criticsms.

[Agabus]

AOI, Monomakhos and OCA Truth are the worst. And Touchstone.

+1

[JamesRottnek]

I occasionally read it, as with most other blogs mainly when I am linked to an article.  I am - as, again, with most blogs - ambivalent towards it.  I think that, like many other sites, it can be too harsh, and in a way that is not always in keeping with the way an Orthodox Christian should view things.

EDIT: Not that I mean to imply I am not myself often that way, just that it isn't ideal.  Oh, and Fr. George, is there any particular reason you're interested in people's opinions?

[FormerReformer]

I'm with Isa

LOL. The difference a day makes.

You got a source for that quote? Trying to find it...

Reply 6, second link.

AOI, Monomakhos and OCA Truth are the worst. And Touchstone.

You should understand, when I first found this particular blog it was next in my reading list after the Ochlophobist (I agree[d in Och's case] with neither one politically, I just enjoy reading highly politicized material). Monomakhos and OCA Truth I agree and gave veiled references in my original reply. Touchstone scores a few points in my book because while they are "conservative" they are also "ecumenical", which irks the "True Orthodox", which is just beautiful (a good reason, BTW, to appreciate the Manhattan Declaration. Anything that has both RC Sproul and the TO frothing mad is good for that, at least) .

[Opus118]

deceptive

[Orest]

What are people's impressions (thoughts on, reviews, etc.) of "The Observer" (the AOI USA blog)?
http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/

It is too politically motivated for my interest.  Lacks spiritual depth.

[ironchapman]

I enjoy reading it from time to time, since I'm a bit of a political junkie. Definitely not using it as a reading source for my inquiry, though (unless my spiritual father recommends it).

But as a pretty staunch conservative, I enjoy reading what other Orthodox conservatives have to say.

[Αριστοκλής]

What are people's impressions (thoughts on, reviews, etc.) of "The Observer" (the AOI USA blog)?
http://www.aoiusa.org/blog/

It's been a while since Fr. George asked our individual opinions of this blog. I have in the past reviewed the AOI site outright I have ignored until now the blog. Now that I have read a large part of it I have added it to my daily reading list. I sense the blog's detractors here are just taking politically motivated reactions. My reactions are merely the opposite of those.

[Iconodule]

AOI is definitely good for comic relief during this grim Lenten season. I love how a couple of guys write a blog together and decide to call it an "Institute." And it only gets more pretentious from there.

[Αριστοκλής]

AOI is definitely good for comic relief during this grim Lenten season. I love how a couple of guys write a blog together and decide to call it an "Institute." And it only gets more pretentious from there.

Thanks for proving my hunch.