Recommended Reading Spring 2009
A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation By Naim Stifan Ateek Orbis Books, 224 pp, $24 Fr. Naim Ateek has played a major... Read More
Conversations by email: Spring 2009
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: Spring 2009
Albania urged to return religious property Europe's association of Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant churches has called on Albania to return all religious... Read More
Letter from Damascus
At the invitation of the Grand Mufti of Damascus, during the last week of April Archbishop Lazar Puhalo was in Syria to... Read More
Three days in August
Yeltsin on a tank in front of the Parliament Building on August 19th, 1991 On August 19, 1991, two months after Boris... Read More
The Kiss of Peace
by Fr. Alexander Schmemann We go to church for love, for the new love of Christ himself, which is granted to us... Read More
A Bishop who Stood in the Way
by Jim Forest In 1941, after a period of neutrality, Bulgaria allied itself with Nazi Germany. This was a decision partly motivated... Read More
The Beatitudes: a selection of Patristic Comments
Christ calling Peter and Andrew. Duccio 14th Century Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down... Read More
The Pitiable Ahab
by Fr. Michael Gillis But if it is you who have to sit in judgment on someone pray to the Lord to... Read More
As God Wills
by Mother Raphaela Wilkinson It is possible to be a member of the Orthodox Church, graduate from a seminary, perhaps even be... Read More