An Open Letter on a Looming Disaster in Iran
Dear OPF members and Friends: In recent days, there has been a proliferation of reports indicating that Israel is preparing an attack... Read More
News IC 65 Calibrated
Peace Research in Egypt Dr. Andrew Klager, a longtime mem-ber of the OPF who teaches at the Uni-versity of the Fraser Valley,... Read More
Recommended Reading Summer
Taking Jesus at His Word by Addison Hodges Hart Eerdmans, 2012, 166 pp Reviewed by Jim Forest With great economy—the book is... Read More
Peace and Peacemaking as an Interfaith and Ecumenical Vocation: An Orthodox View
Peace and Peacemaking as an Interfaith and Ecumenical Vocation: An Orthodox View Mar 9, 2011 Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Clapsis Abstract[1] For Orthodoxy,... Read More
St. Melangell
ONCE IN A while, one comes across a lovely tale of a prince or princess who becomes a Saint by leading a... Read More
How’s this for a mission statement? –Epistle to Diognetus
For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit... Read More
Letter from the Editor IC 64
ON MAY 4TH, the Dutch celebrate Dodenherdenking, Remembrance of the Dead, a holiday like Remembrance Day in Commonwealth countries and Veterans Day in the... Read More
Opening the Doors of Compassion: Cultivating a Merciful Heart
by Fr. John D. Jones As Orthodox Christians, we recognize the ultimate goal of the Christian life to be theosis or divinization—becoming... Read More
Saint Alexander Schmorell: A Canonization in Munich
by Jim Forest Saints come in many sizes and varieties, ranging from kings to beggars, surgeons to street sweepers, scholars to the... Read More
Forgiving All in the Light of the Resurrection: A Scientific Approach
by Elizabeth Gassin and Robert Enright What is forgiveness? When we began studying forgiveness in the 1980s, our first concerns were definitional.... Read More