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What would you do if someone broke into your house and behaved like that?” asks Fr. Alexi Uminsky of Moscow about the activist band, Pussy... Read More
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We Must Refuse to Hate Each Other: Interview with Archpriest Alexey Uminsky
Interview with Archpriest Alexey Uminsky Archpriest Alexey Uminsky is dean of a Moscow parish, Holy Trinity Church in Khokhly. He is also a television presenter,... Read More
A Sermon From Moscow: A Parish Priest Speaks to His Flock
by Fr. Alexander Borisov Dear friends, our short summer is over. It was, as our poet Alexander Pushkin put it, “a parody of southern winters.”... Read More
Orthodox Culture as the Cross in “Cross-Cultural”
by Steven Hayes There are differences between Russian culture and Western culture, and differences within Russian and Western culture. There seems to be a huge... Read More
The Desert Finds Us
by Alexander Patico The joint between the pelvic bone (the ilium) and the last bone of the spine (the sacrum) acts as the bridge between... Read More
Forgiving All in the Light of the Resurrection
by Elizabeth Gassin and Robert Enright Acquire the Spirit of Peace and thousands around you will be saved. —St. Seraphim... Read More
Erasmus of Rotterdam & The Church Fathers
by Ron Dart Last June I was fortunate to spend time in Freiburg, Germany and Basel, Switzerland, the cities where Erasmus spent the final years... Read More
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 on Iran and... 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, Abbotsford, British Columbia,... 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 only 166 pages—Addison... 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, peace is inextricably... 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 life of goodness... 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 cities of their own,... 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 United States. Both... 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 like God as... 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 illiterate, the extraordinary... 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. What exactly is... Read More
Serving the Poor: Beyond Food, Clothing, and Shelter
by Julia Demaree For where two or three are gathered in my Name, I am there in their midst. –Jesus (Matt. 18:20) Our mission statement... Read More
The wrong choice
by Auke de Leeuw My name is Auke Siebe Dirk. I was named after my uncle Dirk Siebe, A boy who made the wrong... Read More
News IC 64
Patriarch Bartholomew critical of Greek anathemas Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has written to Greece’s Archbishop, deploring anti–ecumenical statements from within the Church. In the letter,... Read More
New Page: Remembering Jim Forest – Essays and Articles
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