All good things in our uber-democratic county get overexposed, oversold and corrupted. Take the wonderful idea that everyone should own their own home. Lending regs and credit standards are lowered. Everyone piles in the housing market. The bubble forms and the recession follows.
Or take the classic gin martini straight up with two olives. It becomes popular again and then the faux martinis roll in. Vodka? Weird flavorings. Cranberry? Lime? Rum martinis with pineapple!
PARIS (RNS) — The first major council of the world's Eastern Orthodox churches in over 1,200 years will take place in Crete after the influential Russian Orthodox Church said political tensions between Moscow and Ankara ruled out holding it in Turkey.
The compromise, reached at a preparatory meeting held outside Geneva, means the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church will not take place as planned in Hagia Irene, a church-turned-museum in Istanbul where the Council of Constantinople confirmed the Nicene Creed in 381.
