The Theological Necessity for Humor
by David Athey In a collection of essays called Holy Laughter, Conrad Hyers says, "A common trait of dictators, revolutionaries, and ecclesiastical... Read More
The Bystander
It's now fashionable in some quarters to blame two groups for the Nazi Holocaust: the perpetrators and the bystanders. Yet I discovered... Read More
Searching for Kitezh: a conversation with Alexander Ogorodnikov
Alexander Ogorodnikov was born in 1950. At age 17, he was a lathe operator at a clock factory. Three years later he... Read More
The Passions: Enemy or Friend?
Orthodox Peace Fellowship retreat in Vzelay, April 1999 second lecture by Bishop Kallistos Consider the word "wonder." We have come to a... Read More
E-mail Conversations Winter 2000
Marriage As we see in the Song of Songs, there is an iconographic aspect of marriage. Of course such love is productive,... Read More
Many Offering Death
by Jim Forest "She is unmarried and pregnant, appears to be in her mid-teens, and is nearly penniless. Religiously obsessed, she suffers... Read More
Victims and Heroes
by Renee Zitzloff In January America painfully marked the 27th anniversary of legalized abortion. In this period, in the US alone, 35-40... Read More
True Free Choice
by Nancy Forest The more I read about abortion, the more women I meet who have had an abortion or had a... Read More
The Great Human Rights Issue of Our Time
Jaroslav Pelikan, distinguished Christian scholar and longtime professor at Yale University, also a member of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship advisory board, speaks... Read More
E-mail Conversations Spring 2000
America's vast prison population A study by the Justice Policy Institute calculates that on February 15, America's prison population exceeded two million.... Read More