Recommended Resources – Summer 2005
The Return of the Icon an 85-minute film produced by Bill Smith In the summer of 2004 the icon of the Tikhvin... Read More
Conversations by e-mail – Summer 2005
These are extracts from recent postings to the OPF's e-mail discussion list. If you are an OPF member and wish to take... Read More
News – Summer 2005
Archbishop Anastasios Closer inter-faith ties in once-atheist Albania Religious leaders in Albania have pledged to cooperate in improving conditions in the country,... Read More
Reflections on Pope John Paul
by Fr. Thomas Hopko What was it about Pope John Paul II that elicited the love and respect of millions of people,... Read More
The Reality of Evil
by Fr. John Garvey Evil is a word that disturbs most of us. Secular people are put off by its theological overtones;... Read More
A Gift of the Holy Spirit: The Love of Enemies
by Fr. John Breck In his reflections "On the Knowledge of God," Saint Silouan of Mount Athos (+1938) speaks in a very... Read More
'Only With Love'
by Jim Forest While in Tirana several years ago to research a book on the Orthodox Church in Albania, one of the... Read More
Tirana’s Soup Kitchen
by Pauline Russell When my husband, two children and I made the two-year commitment to become missionaries in Albania to open a... Read More
Talking to Strangers
by Fr. Michael Pappas From an early age we are conditioned not to talk to strangers. For the young, such admonitions are... Read More
On Christian Unity and the Problem of Religious Rivalry
By Bishop Basil of Sergievo The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins each year within the period when, on the Old... Read More