Incommunion Content by Category – Incommunion, Essays, Peace, OPF

Then and Now: Confessions of an Outreach Worker

Then, when I saw a homeless person, I saw the dishevelment, shuffling, and shopping cart. Now I see a person with a story. Not likely...

Dear In Communion reader,

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Dear In Communion reader, This first issue of the year 2010 makes a special link with St. Basil the Great, one of the towering figures...

Forgiveness and healing

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To forgive does not mean to forget what has happened, but to shoulder the weight of another person's frailty or even another person's evil. St....

Lunch with Mother Maria

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by Bev Cooke It's time for lunch! Deacon Kevin grabs a sack of sandwiches. The rest of us grab the table and boxes of...

‘I Was in Need and You Helped Me’

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By Fr. Justin Mathews God calls us to share in His love, a love which expresses itself in acts of compassion for all who are...

On Mercy and Justice

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by St. Basil the Great (or a follower) The following text, often attributed to St. Basil the Great, is now regarded by some scholars as...

God Knows There’s Need

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by Michael Taylor Susan Holman is a scholar of the social justice tradition in the early church. Her new book is God Knows There's Need:...

Patriarch Pavle: A Saint Who Walked

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by Danny Abbott Orthodox Christians lost a fearless bishop with the death November 15 of Patriarch Pavle, long-time leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church. A...

Peacemaking as Mission

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by Jim Forest The Beatitudes include the words, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God." Christ himself bears witness to...

Make Peace, Not War

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by Fr. Philip LeMasters There is no question that we Orthodox Christians would prefer to make peace instead of war, but even in the context...

An Experience of Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue

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by Fr. Steven Tsichlis In September 2000, at the turn of the third millennium, 25 parishioners from St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church and St. John...

News: Winter 2010

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Moscow Patriarchate opposes death penalty In October, the Moscow Patriarchate called on Russia to abstain from executions. "Certainly, it's better not to practice the death...

Coversations by email: Winter 2010

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These are extracts from recent postings to the OPF's e-mail discussion list. If you are an OPF member and wish to take part, contact Mark...

Conversations by email: Fall 2009

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These are extracts from recent postings to the OPF's e-mail discussion list. If you are an OPF member and wish to take part, contact Mark...

News: Fall 2009

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Patriarch Kirill visits Ukraine A ten-day trip to Ukraine by Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church included visits to a monument to victims of...

National Identity and the Search for Unity

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by Archbishop Makarios of Kenya Despite many areas of progress, the past century has been the most brutal age in the history of humanity. What...

On God and Justice

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by Fr. Stephen Freeman There are many who imagine theologically that at some later point, a final judgment, God's justice, will be manifest. In this...