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Agia Skepi Sustainability Center in Cyprus

Agia Skepi, a detoxification community in Cyprus, inspires members within the framework of its therapeutic program to engage themselves in the cultivation of biological products. This solution springs from the broader spirit of Agia Skepi in getting rid of harmful substances while fostering a high quality of life.

Jim Forest in memoriam By Fr Andrew Louth

In the Fathers of the Church, from the time of Origen, there is a notion of the ‘spiritual senses’: just as we perceive the physical world through our five physical senses—sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell—so there are, by analogy, five spiritual senses, through which we apprehend the spiritual world. Origen is the first Christian writer...
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The Vocation of a Peacemaker By Jim Forest

This is an extract from a talk given by Jim at St Tikhon’s Monastery in June 2003. The talk was later edited by Jim into the essay  “The History and Mission of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship,” available on our website: https://incommunion.org/the-history-and-mission-of-the-orthodox-peace-fellowship/. This extract presents Jim’s conclusion. “Before closing, let me add a few points that...
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Celebrating the Liturgy as a Way to Promote Peace

Our parish in Deventer, belonging to the “Archdiocese of Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe”, so the “rue Daru” to keep it simple, is a very international congregation: about half of us are Dutch. Further we have Russians, Rumanians, Greeks, Serbs, Ukrainians, Macedonians, Syrians, Eritreans and Georgians. A few months after the beginning of...
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