Advice on Peacemaking from the Saints
A selection of challenging quotations for meditation assembled by Alexander Patico, secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship in North America First Century... Read More
Hospitality and Marriage
by Nancy Forest When I was growing up, hospitality was something that had a ring of social class to it. It suggested... Read More
Fifty issues of In Communion
By Jim Forest "Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad." The Jews... Read More
Saying Yes
by Nancy Forest These are extracts from a journal Nancy started keeping a week before donating a kidney to her husband, Jim.... Read More
Fr. David Kirk’s Legacy of Hope
by Julia Demaree and Albert Raboteau Fr. David Kirk, founder of Emmaus House in New York City's Harlem, died last year on... Read More
The Barrier Wall
by Alexander Patico One of the sources of Arab discontentment has been the erection of the "Defensive Wall," as Israelis call it,... Read More
The Original Oneness of Adam & Eve
by Jim Forest While browsing in our parish bookshop not long ago, I happened to notice in a rack of cards a... Read More
Iran: The Next Evil Empire?
by Alex Patico Children playing at the Fin Garden in Kashan, Iran. photo by Tilo Driessen To us in the West, Iran... Read More
A Conversation in Volos about Church and State
by Jim Forest [photo: Metropolitan Ignatios, bishop of Volos] Fifty Orthodox, Catholic, Anglican and Protestant Christians from Europe and the United States... Read More
The Pilgrimage of Illness
by Jim Forest Any trip, even a small journey from one prosaic location to another, has the potential to become a pilgrimage.... Read More