Recommended Reading: Fall 2009
Hidden Holiness by Michael Plekon University of Notre Dame Press, $25 A poem by Matthew Brown that introduces the first chapter to... Read More
Conversations by email: Fall 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: Fall 2009
Patriarch Kirill visits Ukraine A ten-day trip to Ukraine by Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church included visits to a monument... Read More
National Identity and the Search for Unity
by Archbishop Makarios of Kenya Despite many areas of progress, the past century has been the most brutal age in the history... Read More
On God and Justice
by Fr. Stephen Freeman There are many who imagine theologically that at some later point, a final judgment, God's justice, will be... Read More
Salt of the Earth: An Orthodox Christian Approach to Peacemaking
by Jim Forest "You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be... Read More
The Nativity of the Mother of God
The first great feast of the Liturgical year celebrates the nativity of the Blessed Virgin. It is appropriate that, during these first... Read More
Dear In Communion reader
Dear In Communion reader, One of the topics discussed in this issue is how often we prefer justice, as humanly understood, to... Read More
The Georgia Russia Mini-War
by Jim Forest The recent Georgia Russia mini-war in and around South Ossetia was definitely not a religious war, but serves as... Read More
Orthodox Peace Fellowship letter to the Patriarchs of Russia and Georgia
The Orthodox Peace Fellowship, an association of Orthodox believers seeking to apply the principles of the Gospel to situations of division and... Read More