What's in a name?
For many people peace is chiefly the absence of war. "It was a time of peace" is simply another way of saying it was a period between wars. A Christian understanding of peace is far deeper. It is shaped by Christ himself and the example he gives us. It is the Holy Trinity's dialogue of love. It is honoring the image of God in the other, even in the enemy. We see the contours of the peacemaker's life in the Beatitudes. The phrase "in communion" reveals the deeper meaning of the word "peace." To be "in communion" is to be linked with others at the deepest level of existence. For the Orthodox Christian, communion means intimate participation in the life of Christ: receiving the awesome and life-creating Mysteries that heal body and soul, repel adversity, illumine the mind and heart, sustain love and faith, nourish wisdom and banish fear. This is the peace of Christ. The idea for the journal's name was suggested by Father Thomas Hopko, Dean of St. Vladimir's TheologicalSeminary: "The Orthodox approach," Father Hopko said, "is that we are made in the image and likeness of God, and that God is a Trinity of persons in absolute identity of being and of life in perfect communion. Therefore, communion is the given. Anything that breaks that communion destroys the very roots of our existence. Seventy times seven times a day we must re-establish communion and want to do so. My task is not to decide whether or not I will be in relationship with you but to realize that I am in communion with you: my life is yours, and your life is mine."
- from the first issue of In Communion
Issue 74 - In Communion / Fall 2020
- Letter from the Editor – Fall 2020 IC-74
- The One Sin for Which the Orthodox Church Gives a Blessing by Fr. Mark Korban
- On the blessing of weapons and soldiers: Letter to Patriarch Kirill in Moscow and All Russia
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Transfiguration by Nicholas Sooy
- “Good Trouble”: John Lewis And The Triumph Of Faith, Hope, And Love by Alfred D. Turnipseed
- A Bag of Bullets by Aaron Haney
- Standing on Cracking Ice: A chapter from Writing Straight with Crooked Lines by Jim Forest
- The Christian Peacemaker Symbolized as a Soldier – A chapter from The Way of the Peacemaker by Eric Simpson.
Issue 73- In Communion /2019
- Letter from the Editor: Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking – Issue 73
- SAINTS, NUNS, AND THE SEX TRADE - NICHOLAS SOOY
- HUMAN TRAFFICKING & MODERN SLAVERY - KEVIN HYLAND
- RESTORATION OF THE HUMAN ICON - METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS WARE
- THE HABIT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE - INTERVIEW WITH THE NUNS OF ALL SAINTS
- HOPE TO A WORLD FILLED WITH SHADOWS - ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW
- FIGHTING MODERN SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING AS A PARISH
ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN COALITION AGAINST SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING - MODERN SLAVERY—A JOINT STATEMENT
THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH AND THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY - FOR I AM YOUR CHILD - SAVELIA CURNISKI
Issue 72- In Communion / Summer 2018
- Race and the Fall By Pieter Dykhorst
- Incorporating Culture: Truth, Reconciliation and the Pathway to Peace
- THE ARCHBISHOP IN ALABAMA
- The Cost of Discipleship
- Racism: An Orthodox Perspective
- Standing on the Side that is Right: An Interview with Fr. Chat Hatfield
Issue 71- In Communion / Winter 2017
- What Are You Fighting For?
- Living In Communion
- The Gospel Command of Nonviolence
- Fossil or Leaven: The Church We Hand Down
- The Extra/Ordinary Hospitality of St. Herman House
- That the World May Believe
Issue 70- In Communion / Spring 2015
- Letter from the Editor
- From Herod to ISIS through Christ
- The Orthodox Peace Fellowship
- Living in Communion
- The Beatitudes
- Dia-Logos with the Cosmos
- What Has Love Got To Do with It?
- Rachel's Lament
- National Identity and Unity
- You Cannot Serve Two Ideas
- Email Discussion
- Prayer for Enemies
- Recommended Reading: Being Bread
- Inside the front cover
Issue 69- In Communion 2014
- Letter from the Editor
- St. Patrick's Challenge to Nationalism
- Where Love Is Never Treason
- Holy Disobedience
- War and Virtue
- The Inward Mission of Our Church
- Poetry (in pictures): "United and Undivided?" and "Being Separate Together"
- Recommended reading: Loving Our Enemies
- Recommended reading: The Philokalia: a Classic Text on Of Orthodox Spirituality
Supplements not included in print edition:
- Full text of War and Virtue, keynote speech at OPF conference 2013 by Aristotle Papanikolaou
- English translation of statement by Patriarch John X on the release from captivity of the nuns of Mar Tekla (St. Thecla) monastery in Syria
- Patriarch John X statement in Arabic
Issue 68- In Communion 2014
- Letter from the Editor
- Courage between Rocks and Guns
- St. Silouan: On the Love of Enemies
- Toward a Theology of Just Peace
- Confession: A Primer
- St. Elizabeth: A Planned Community
- Poetry: Holy Wisdom
- Patience with God
- The Philokalia: A Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality (excerpts from; see review in IC69)
Issue 67- In Communion / Summer 2013
Issue 66- In Communion / Winter 2012
- Finding Peace by Father Lev Gillet
- Letter from the Editor: Pieter Dykhorst
- Peacemaking As Vocation: Toward an Orthodox Understanding by Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis
- The Church As Neighbor: Corporately and Compassionately Engaged by Fr. John D. Jones
- Healing in the Parish and the World: Let Us Go Forth in Peace by Bishop Kallistos Ware
- The King’s Jubilee: A ministry to the homeless of Philadelphia by Cranford Coulter
- Peace in the Parish by Anthony S. Bashir and Fr. John Mefrige
- The Woman Jezebel: Thoughts on the False Christian Character of Fascism by Miltiadis Konstantinou and Efstathios C. Lianos-Liantis
- Poetry IC 66
- Recommended Reading- Believing in Russia: Religious Policy after Communism by Geraldine Fagan
- Searching Every Which Way by Alex Patico
Issue 65- In Communion / Summer 2012
- St. Basil the Holy Fool of Moscow
- Sunday before the Exaltation of the Cross: Where do we stand?
- Letter from the Editor IC 65
- OWe Must Refuse to Hate Each Other: Interview with Archpriest Alexey Uminsky
- A Sermon From Moscow: A Parish Priest Speaks to His Flock
- Orthodox Culture as the Cross in “Cross-Cultural”
- The Desert Finds Us
- Forgiving All in the Light of the Resurrection
- Erasmus of Rotterdam & The Church Fathers
- An Open Letter on a Looming Disaster in Iran
- News IC 65 Calibrated
- Recommended Reading Summer
Issue 64- In Communion / Spring 2012
- St. Melangell
- How’s this for a mission statement? –Epistle to Diognetus
- Letter from the Editor IC 64
- Opening the Doors of Compassion: Cultivating a Merciful Heart
- Saint Alexander Schmorell: A Canonization in Munich
- Forgiving All in the Light of the Resurrection: A Scientific Approach
- Serving the Poor: Beyond Food, Clothing, and Shelter
- The Wrong Choice
- News IC 64
- Recommended Reading Spring 2012
Issue 63- In Communion / Winter 2011
- Letter from the editor
- Letter from readers
- Forgive Us…as We Forgive: Forgiveness in the Psalms and the Lord’s Prayer, by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
- A Pilgrimage to Hell by Jim Forest
- Orthodox Roots, Bektashi Neighbors: Interview with Metropolitan John of Korca
- The Fall by Aaron Haney
- Orthodox Haiku: For the Lenten Season by John Kosmas Skinas
- Who of These Is Not Like The Others? by Alex Patico
- News -Winter 2012
- Recommended Reading – Winter 2012
Issue 62- In Communion / Fall 2011
- St. Moses the Black
- Letter from the editor by Pieter Dykhorst
- Forgiveness–Finding Wholeness Again By Teresa Peneguy Paprock
- Forgive Us…as We Forgive: Forgiveness in the Psalms and the Lord’s Prayer by Met. Kallistos Ware
- Interview with Jim Forest – Work Hard, Pray Hard. by US Catholic Magazine
- Poetry IC 62
- News IC 62
- Recommended Reading IC 62
- Conversations by email IC 62
Issue 61- In Communion / Summer 2011
- Dear In Communion Reader
- Living in Communion
- A Letter from the (Retiring) Editor
- Of Whom I am First: on the death of Osama Bin Laden
- Orthodox Approaches to Nonviolent Resistance
- A High Wind of Grace in Jamaica
- The Real Saint George
- The Invisible Border
- Treasury of Blessings
- News – Summer 2011 / IC 61
- Conversations by E-Mail – Summer 2011
- Saints Cosmas & Damian: Unmercenary Physicians
- Recommended Reading – Summer IC 61
Issue 60 - In Communion / Spring 2011
- Dear In Communion Reader
- Christ has risen from the grave like a bridegroom
- Beauty Will Save the Church
- Women in Prison: On the Glory Road
- Paschal Hospitality
- Tahrir Square, Again
- Pascha in Dachau
- News – Pascha 2011 / IC 60
- Conversations by e-mail / Pascha / Issue 60
- Recommended Reading – Pascha IC 60
Issue 59 - In Communion / Winter 2011
- Dear In Communion Reader
- St. Ephrem the Syrian
- Blessed Alexander Schmorell and the White Rose
- When Killing is Just Pressure on the Trigger
- The Least of These
- Blessed Are You Poor
- Tolstoy and the Sign of the Cross
- News – Winter 2011 / IC 59
- Conversations by E-Mail – Winter 2011 IC 59
- Recommended Reading – Winter 2011 / IC 59
Issue 58 - In Communion / Fall 2011
- The Multiplaction of Loaves & Fishes
- On the love of enemies
- Distributism: a Primer for Orthodox Christians
- The Social Doctrine of St. Basil the Great
- A Prayer for Peace and Repentance
- Who’s to Blame for Human Suffering?
- If it Bleeds, It Leads
- Three Faiths Meet at OPF Conference
- In Communion-News- Fall 2010 nr 58
- Conversations by E-Mail -Fall 2010 IC 58
- Recommended Reading Fall 2010 IC 58
Issue 57 - In Communion / Summer 2010
- Dear In Communion reader,
- A Christian home is incomplete without a Christ room
- Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution in the Church
- Saying No to Torture
- More Than Just Justice
- The Church Fathers on Oaths, Revenge and Love
- The Road
- News (Summer 2010)
- Conversations by E-Mail (Summer 2010)
- Recommended Reading (Summer 2010)
Issue 56 - In Communion / PASCHA 2010
- Dear In Communion reader,
- This is the day which the Lord has made
- Conscience and War
- Speaking of Conscience
- The Dance of Life
- Love as (Perhaps) a First Principle
- Capital Punishment and God’s Kingdom
- Overcoming Anger, Seeking Reconciliation
- News (Pascha 2010)
- Conversations by E-Mail (Pascha 2010)
- Recommended Reading (Pascha 2010)
Issue 55 - In Communion / Winter: 2010
- Dear In communion Reader
- Forgiveness and healing
- Lunch with Mother Maria
- I Was in Need and You Helped Me
- On Mercy and Justice
- God Knows There's a Need
- Patriarch Pavle: A Saint Who Walked
- Peacemaking as Mission
- Make Peace, Not War
- An Experience of Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue
- News: Winter 2010
- Conversations by email: Winter 2010
- Recommended Reading Winter 2010
Issue 54 - In Communion / Fall: 2009
- Dear In Communion Reader
- National Identity And The Search For Unity
- On God and Justice
- Adam, Where Are You?
- Salt of the Earth
- The Nativity of the Mother of God
- Recommended Reading: Fall 2009
- Conversations by email: Fall 2009
- News Fall 2009
Issue 53 - In Communion / Spring: 2009
- Dear In Communion Reader
- The Mystery of the Present Moment
- I Love, Therefore I Am
- As God Wills
- The Pitiable Ahab
- The Beatitudes: a selection of Patristic Comments
- A Bishop who Stood in the Way
- Advice on Peacemaking from the Saints
- News: Spring 2009
- Conversations by email: Spring 2009
- Recommended Reading: Spring 2009
Issue 52 - In Communion / Winter: 2009
- Dear In Communion Reader
- Saint Brigid of Ireland
- Pro-war is not Pro-life
- Witness in Jerusalem
- The Muddle that is the Middle East
- May Christians Kill?
- Corporatism or Commonweal?
- Advice on Peacemaking from the Saints
- News: Winter 2009
- Recommended Reading: Winter 2009
- Conversations by email: Winter 2009
Issue 51 - In Communion / Fall: 2008
- One Parish's Engagement with its Homeless Neighbors
- Building The New City: St. Basil's Social Vision
- The Church as a Culture of Love
- Restoring the Diaconate of Women
- Rising out of the Fall
- OPF'fs Vocation: Witnessing to the Peace of Christ
- The Georgia Russia Mini-War
- News: Fall 2008
- Conversations by email: Fall 2008
- Recommended Reading Fall 2008
Issue 50 - In Communion / Summer: 2008
- In Communion Summer 2008
- Saints Cosmas and Damian: Holy Unmercenaries, martyrs at Rome (284)
- Fifty issues of In Communion
- The Liturgy after the Liturgy
- Calling Governments to Account
- Hospitality and Marriage
- A Brief Guide for Christian-Muslim Dialogue
- Orthodox-Muslim Relations: The Search for Truth
- Death: A Second Baptism
- News: Summer 2008
- Conversations by email: Summer 2008
- Recommended Reading: Summer 2008
Issue 49 - In Communion / Spring: 2008
- A Pascha greeting in Stalins Russia
- A Sunday of Forgiveness in Nairobi
- Regarding the Churchs opposition to capital punishment
- Removing the Wall Between Mary & Martha
- Consider Todays Lily
- Fr. David Kirks Legacy of Hope
- Saying Yes
- News: Pascha / Spring 2008
- Conversations by email: Pascha / Spring 2008
- Recommended Reading: Pascha / Spring 2008
Issue 48 - In Communion / Winter: 2008
- Walls
- The Original Oneness of Adam & Eve
- The Wanderings and Wonderings About Women and Walls
- Boundaries and Bridges
- Young Adam
- The Barrier Wall
- Living on the Wrong Side of the Wall
- News: Winter 2008 / issue 48
- Conversations by email: Winter 2008
- Recommended Reading: Winter 2008
Issue 47 - In Communion / Fall: 2007
- The Protection of the Mother of God
- St. John Chrysostom, Almsgiving, and Persons with Disability
- Iran: The Next Evil Empire?
- Love Your Enemies As Yourself
- Taking Up the Cross
- Saint Marcellus: Military Martyr
- Strengthening Fundamental Values
- News: Fall 2007 / issue 47
- Conversations by email: Fall 2007
Issue 46 - In Communion / Summer: 2007
- Dear In Communion Reader
- A Saint Who Stopped an Execution
- Doing Justice, Loving Mercy
- The Voice of the Victim
- The Execution of Philip Workman
- God-Given Life
- Lest Guilty Blood be Shed
- The Wounded Torturer
- News Summer 2007
- Conversations by email: Summer2007
- Remembering Fr. David Kirk
- A Conversation in Volos about Church and State
Issue 45 - In Communion / Spring: 2007
- The Rich Young Man
- Do you wish to be made whole?
- St John Chrysostom and the Problem of Wealth
- Voluntary Simplicity
- Zealous for Truth
- Prisoners we are forbidden to visit
- Hate breeds hate
- The pilgrimage of illness
- News Spring 2007
- Conversations by email: Spring 2007
Issue 44 - In Communion / Winter: 2007
- Holy Wisdom, Holy Foolishness
- St. Xenia of St. Petersburg:
- Holy Fools in Russian Literature
- Peace With My Body
- Bridges
- An Orthodox Parish Turns to Solar Power
- Promoting Harmony in the Choir
- OPF Report to North American Bishops
- News: Winter 2007
- Conversations by e-mail: Winter 2007
- 'Step Back from the Brink of War': OPF's Iran Appeal
Issue 43 - In Communion / Fall 2006
- Wisdom from John Chrysostom
- Healing and Peacemaking
- Do you wish to be made whole?
- Healing our Damaged World
- The Healing of Enmity
- Healing and Monasteries
- Peacemaking in the Parish
- What We Want in Our Political Leaders
- News Fall 2006
- Conversations by email: Fall 2006
- Recommended Reading: Fall 2006
Issue 42 In Communion- Summer 2006
- Peacemaking in the Parish: Seeking the Peace from Above
- Parish Ethics and the Teaching of Jesus
- When Taking Cover Is Not Enough
- News - Summer 2006
- Conversations by E-Mail - Summer 2006
- Recommended Reading - Summer 2006
Issue 41 - Spring 2006
- Christ Harrowing Hell
- Poverty & Stigmatization: An Orthodox Perspective
- Police and Philokalia: Training Your Gun on Inner Demons
- Souls in Motion: A Place of Hospitality
- An Orthodox Perspective on a Nuclear Iran
- Wisdom from St. John Chrysostom
- Conversations by E-Mail - Spring 2006
- Issue News - Spring 2006
- Recommended Reading - Spring 2006
Issue 40 - Winter 2006
- Editorial
- St. Basil's Guidance on War and Repentance
- Practical Assistance in Conflict Areas
- Learning Forgiveness in Narnia
- An Abbess Who Said No
- Mrs. Jellyby and the Domination of Causes
- Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, 1907-2005
- Waking Up Under a Green Sky
- News Winter 2006
- Conversations by e-mail - Winter 2006
- Recommended Reading - Winter 2006
- Cherishing enemies
Issue 39 - Fall 2005
- Editorial
- Downward Mobility
- On the Lord's Prayer
- Orthodox Christians and Conscientious Objection
- News section - Fall 2005
- Recommended Reading - Fall 2005
- Conversations by e-mail - Fall 2005
Issue 38 - Summer 2005
- Peacemaking: a healing ministry
- Sts. Cosmas & Damian
- 'Only With Love'
- Reflections on Pope John Paul
- The Reality of Evil
- A Gift of the Holy Spirit: The Love of Enemies
- Tirana's Soup Kitchen
- Talking to Strangers
- On Christian Unity and the Problem of Religious Rivalry
- News - Summer 2005
- Conversations by e-mail - Summer 2005
- Recommended Resources - Summer 2005
Issue 37 - Spring 2005
- Eternal Memory
- Palm Sunday: Gateway to the Cross and Resurrection
- Forgiving all by the Resurrection
- Blessing the Homes of the Homeless
- Rouault's Hope-Giving Images
- News Reports - Spring 2005
- Conversations by E-Mail - Spring 2005
- Recommended Reading - Spring 2005
Issue 36 - Winter 2005
- A Time to Grieve
- The Treehouse: Saving Lives One by One
- Becoming the Jesus Prayer
- The Ministry of Reconciliation
- Wars Hidden Cost: damaged souls and minds
- News Reports - Winter 2005
- Conversations by email - Winter 2005
- Recommended Reading - Winter 2005
Issue 35 - Fall 2004
- A Child's Hand... - editorial
- The Gospel of Necessity by Joe May
- Bringing it all back home by Nancy Forest
- Mother Gavrilia: "A Holocaust to His Love" by John Brady
- Interweaving Melody by Joel Klepac
- Advice on Peacemaking from the Early Church
- News Section
- Conversations by E-Mail
- Book Reviews
Issue 34 - Summer 2004
- Clouds of Witnesses - editorial
- Impressions of a Canonization by Nancy Forest-Flier
- Becoming the Gospel: the example of four saints by Jim Forest
- The Mission of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship by Timothy Beach
- Reflections on the Liturgy by Mary Stavroula Ward
- News section - Summer 2004
- Conversations by E-Mail - Summer 2004
- Recommended Reading - Summer 2004
Issue 33 - Spring 2004
- Honoring Christ - editorial
- Getting Our Robes Dirty by Fr. Paul Schroeder
- Eucharist and the Dying Poor by Joel Klepac
- Fr. Dimitry Klepinin, Martyr of Hospitality by Helene Arjakovsky-Klepinin
- 'The great sin is fear of the other': a conversation with Metropolitan John by Jim Forest
- News section - Spring 2004
- Conversations by E-Mail - Spring 2004
- Book Reviews - Spring 2004
Issue 32 - Winter 2004
- In Communion 32 - Cover letter
- "Ethnic Conflicts and the Orthodox Church" by Metropolitan John of Korca
- "Purity of Heart: An Essential for Peacemaking" by Albert Rossi
- The Troublesome Word "Murder"
- News section
- Conversations by E-Mail
- Good Reading
Issue 31 - Fall 2003
- In Communion 31 - Cover letter
- Remembering Metropolitan Anthony
- The Risen Life is a Rejoicing Life
- Learning to be Peacemakers
- St. Nicholas the Wonder-Worker
- Metropolitan Kirill: Rethinking Ecumenism
- On Behalf of Unborn Children: an appeal to two Orthodox senators
- News - Fall 2003
- Conversations by E-Mail Fall 2003
- Good Reading - Fall 2003
Issue 30 - Spring-Summer 2003
- Cover image: St Seraphim and the bear
- From the teachings of St. Seraphim of Sarov
- Living the Beatitudes by Fr. John Chryssavgis
- Monasticism and the Way of Radical Peace by Mother Raphaela
- American-Christian Theology and Support for War by Greg Cook
- Wormwood on War by Jim Forest
- News report (IC30)
- Conversations by E-Mail (IC30)
- Recommended Reading
- Quote / unquote
Issue 29 - Winter 2003
- The Hospitality of Abraham & Sarah by Jessica Rose
- The View From Below by Joe May
- Communion and Calling by Fr. Brooks Ledford
- A Year on Board an Ark by Suzanna Roye
- Raphael House: A Place of Welcome By Maria Nash
- The Asceticism of the Open Door by Mother Maria Skobtsova
- Quote/Unquote (IC 29)
- News (IC 29)
- Correspondence
- Good Reading (IC29)
- Lunch: a poem by Nilus Stryker
Issue 28 - Fall 2002
- Transfiguring the Family
- The Witness of the Faithful and Peace in the Family by Greg Cook
- Living Hospitality by Nancy Forest
- Family Life in an Orthodox Rhythm by Valerie Zahirsky
- Making Peace With a Painful Past by Renee Zitzloff
- Reconciliation Across Generations by Jessica Rose
- News - Fall 2002
- Conversations by e-mail (IC 28)
Issue 27 - Summer 2002
- The Right Question? by John Oliver
- The African American Witness to the Sacred Gift of Life by Albert J. Raboteau
- Embracing the Orphans and Outcasts Among Us by Renee Zitzloff
- News reports (IC 27)
- Conversations by e-mail (IC 27)
Issue 26 - Spring 2002
- Letter from Taybeh: Terrified Children, Frightened Soldiers by Maria Khoury
- Zoe Means Life by Paula Kappos
- Incarnation as Revelation of Humanity by Jessica Rose
- Confession: Sacrament of Reconciliation by Jim Forest
- Jesus and the Natural World by Fr. John Jillions
- News - Spring 2002
- Letters - spring 2002
Issue 25 - Winter 2002
- The Architecture of War by Jessica Rose
- The Parable of the Vineyard by Bishop Basil Osborne
- September 11 and Reverence for Life by Jim Forest
- Venerating the Cross After September 11 by Fr. John Dresko
- A Christian perspective on Islam
- Jihad and Community by Fr. Stephen Headley
- News reports
- Conversations by E-mail
Issue 24 - Summer 2001
- A Visit to Beit Jala by Jim Forest
- Inside a Children's Ark in Guatemala by Renee Zitzloff
- The Prophetic Role of Orthodoxy by Andrew Walker
- News report
- Conversations by E-Mail
- Recommended reading
Issue 23 - Spring 2001
- Albanian Resurrection by Jim Forest
- Glorify God With Your Body by Bishop Kallistos
- Persons in Communion by Olivier Clement
- News (Spring 2001)
- Conversations by E-Mail
Issue 22 - Winter 2001
- Wisdom and Wonder by Jim Forest & John Oliver
- The Witness of Tradition
- Through Creation to the Creator by Bishop Kallistos
- Humanity and Nature in Icons by Fr. Stamatios Skliris
- How Do I See the Universe and Man's Place In It? by Philip Sherrard
- A sampling of earth's pharmacy
- Coffee Cups and St. Isaac the Syrian by Vincent Rossi
- Twenty Questions by John & Lara Oliver
- News - Winter 2001
- OPF List E-mail dialogue
Issue 21 - Fall 2000
- The Church's Role in Serbia's Peaceful Revolution
- Saint Gerasimos and His Lion by Jim Forest
- On Homicide by Metropolitan George
- The Heresy of Racism
- On Nationalism by Patriarch Bartholomeos of Constantinople
- News - Fall 2000
- Conversations by E-mail
Issue 20 - Summer 2000
- Models of Self-Emptying Love by Fr. Alexander Webster
- Saints and Spirit Bearers: Models for Orthodox Women by Mother Maria Rule
- Blessed are the Peacemakers by Jim Forest
- News column
- Conversations by e-mail
Issue 19 - Spring 2000
- Go Forth in Peace by Bishop Kallistos
- The Universal Character of Monastic Spirituality by Paul Evdokimov
- Building Peace in the Home by Bridget Hickey-Williams
- Cleansing by Tears by Renee Zitzloff
- News Pascha 2000 issue
- Conversations by e-mail
Issue 18 - Winter 2000
- Abortion: The Great Human Rights Issue of Our Time by Jim and Nancy Forest
- Abortion and the Early Church by Michael J. Gorman
- True Free Choice by Nancy Forest
- Victims and Heroes by Renee Zitzloff
- Many Offering Death by Jim Forest
- Conversations by E-mail
Issue 17 - Fall 1999
- The Passions: Enemy of Friend? by Bishop Kallistosof Diokleia
- Searching for Kitezh: an interview with AlexanderOgorodnikov
- The Bystander by Anastasia Heath
- The Theological Necessity of Humor by David Athey
- The Soul of a Child by Renee Zitzloff
- Conversations by E-mail
Issue 16 - July 1999
- The Serbian Orthodox Church: Not What We Have Been Led to Believe by Jim Forest
- The Situation of the Church in Kosovo by MotherMaria Rule
- Letter from Kosovo's Bishop Artemije
- Obituary for a Bridge by Mirko Mandrino
- The War in the Balkans: Who is the Winner? by MilanRadovanovic
- Kosovo's refugees: 'I was Homeless and You Cared for Me' by Fr. Luke A. Veronis
- Monastic Peacemaking in Kosovo - several pressreports about the monks of Decani
- Conversations by e-mail - a selection of recentpostings to the OPF List
- The Orthodox Peace Fellowship Retreat in Vzelay- a report by James Chater
- A Prayer for Peace
Issue 15 - April 1999
- The Role of Conscience by Fr. John Breck
- A Fitting Way to Celebrate the Year 2000 by TomSnowdon
- The Bitter Price of "Choice" by Frederica Mathewes-Green
- Healing by Mud by Ren Zitzloff
- Coming to the Tomb by Fr. Stephen Headley
- A Bishop's Opposition to Capital Punishment
- The NATO attack on Yugoslavia: several texts...
- Conversations to E-mail
Issue 14 - December 1998
- To Be The Church by Julie Williams
- Rescued by Christmas by Jim Forest
- Teaching Icon Painting to Prisoners by Anneli Ojanpera
- A Monastic Struggle for Peace in Kosovo: Fr. Savaof Decani Monastery
- Brotherhood of St. Seraphim: Feeding the Hungry in Moscowby Jim Vail
- Conversations to E-mail
Issue 13 - September 1998
- Two Types of Love by Mother Maria Skobtsova
- Towards a New Ecumenism by Christos Yannaras
- On Abortion and Over-Population by Nancy Forest
- Project Mexico: To Love is to Serve by RenZitzloff
- John of Kronstadt: Saint of Communion, Saint of Confessionby Bishop Kallistos
- A First Visit to Albania by Sophia Jilderda
- Moscow's Island of Hope: a letter from AlexanderOgorodnikov in Moscow
Issue 12 - April 1998
- Dostoevsky's View of Evil by Richard Pevear
- Death with Dignity? by Frederica Mathewes-Green
- Blessed by Jim Forest
- Family-Centered Education by Ren Zitzloff
- The Passion of Anger by Mark Pearson
Issue 6 - October 1996
- Blessed are the Meek: Capital Punishment and the Gospel by Fr. Thomas Mueller
Issue 4 - March 1996
- Peace and Conflict in Scripture and History by Father Sergei Ovsiannikov
Issue 3 - December 1995
- Two Soldiers of Christ: Boris and Gleb by Father Sergei Heckel
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