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Conversations by email: Winter 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 part, contact Mark... Read More
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Recommended Reading: Winter 2009
The Living Body of Christ by Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh Darton, Longman & Todd, 235pp. 10.95 Metropolitan Anthony does not offer a systematic treatise on... Read More
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 For he is... Read More
Corporatism or Commonweal?
by Archbishop Lazar Puhalo This is the rule of the most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the... Read More
May Christians Kill?
By Fr. Philip LeMasters Eastern Christianity does not view morality in fundamentally legal terms or within the context of abstract philosophy, but as part of... Read More
Dear In Communion reader,
Dear In Communion reader, Writing these occasional appeal letters is always quite a challenge. While they are OPF's economic lifeline, reaching out to others with... Read More
News: Winter 2009
Patriarch Kirill pledges to keep church unified Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who was enthroned in Moscow as Kirill I, the 16th patriarch in... Read More
Recommended Reading: Fall 2008
Dimitri's Cross: The Life of St. Dimitri Klepinin by Hèléne Arjkovsky-Klepinine Conciliar Press, 189 pages, $17 In February of 1943, Father Dimitri Klepinin, a 39-year-old... Read More
Conversations by email: Fall 2008
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... Read More
News: Fall 2008
War tests ties between Georgian and Russian Churches While the leaders of Russia and Georgia exchange recriminations, Christians in the two nations worried about the... 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 a reminder that... Read More
OPF’s Vocation: Witnessing to the Peace of Christ
Several meetings held as a part of the recent OPF-North American conference in Maryland focused on the road ahead. These notes grew out of those... Read More
Rising out of the Fall
By Alex Patico Between yesterday morning - October 18 - and now, three birds have flown into one or another of the windows of our... Read More
Restoring the Diaconate of Women
by Teva Regule "Master and Lord, You do not reject women who offer themselves, and by divine counsel, to minister as is fitting to your... Read More
The Church as a Culture of Love
Here are extracts from a talk given November 11, 2008, by Bishop Jonah (Paffhausen) to the All-American Council of the Orthodox Church in America. The... Read More
Building The New City: St. Basil’s Social Vision
by Fr. Paul Schroeder In St. Gregory the Theologian's funeral oration for St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory describes the legacy of St. Basil's philanthropic... Read More
One Parish’s Engagement with its Homeless Neighbors
by Jill Wallerstedt The morning begins as most do: friends coming for breakfast. A table spread with toast, peanut butter, jelly, butter, honey, bagels, cereal... Read More
One Parish's Engagement with its Homeless Neighbors
by Jill Wallerstedt The morning begins as most do: friends coming for breakfast. A table spread with toast, peanut butter, jelly, butter, honey, bagels, cereal... Read More
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker
Saint Nicholas wrote no books nor have any of his sermons or letters survived, but few saints have been the object of such universal affection.... Read More
Dear In Communion reader
Our Fall issue as been edited in a time of crisis, indeed not one crisis but many. Wars are being fought in many places around... Read More
New Page: Remembering Jim Forest – Essays and Articles
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