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The Weapon that Does not Wound
By Fr. John Burdin What we are going through today is, in a spiritual sense, much more terrible and dangerous than the situation at the... Read More
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Choice as the New Reality: Obstacles for Consensus between the UOC and the OCU
The military actions of Russia against the sovereign nation of Ukraine, the lack of archpastoral support for Ukrainian Orthodox Christians by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow... Read More
Religious mobilization in Ukraine: an on-the-ground perspective on how religious leaders are shaping the conflict’s trajectory
Even prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, religious relations between the two countries have often mirrored the long-simmering geopolitical tensions surrounding Ukrainian independence and autonomy. Russia’s previous... Read More
Poetry by Kelly Jadon: “prayer tongue” + “hidden”
prayer tongue by darkness’s carefully concealed cloakconcisely, deliberatelythey came for uswithout world’s watchingfor the menwho mothered another tongue behind bailless barswishing, wailingwithering andwaitingeach line of... Read More
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Ultimately, whether saints supported peace or war, Christ remains the ultimate authority. We are Christians, after all. Despite Christ's negative attitude towards all violence, at... Read More
St. Constantine the Peacemaker
St. Constantine famously had a vision where God instructed him to conquer in the name of Christ. In some respect, all stories of war-waging saints... Read More
St. George the Peacemaker
The most famous soldier-saint is St. George. At the same time, St. George's story is the most mythical of all saints. Dragons are not real,... Read More
St. Alexander the Peacemaker
St. Alexander Nevsky, (or perhaps more accurately St. Alexey if we use his tonsured name) is a commonly cited warrior saint. St. Alexander rose to... Read More
St. Sergius the Peacemaker
One of the most popular stories in Russia is the story of St. Sergius of Radonezh blessing St. Dmitry Donskoy to fight the Tatars. According... Read More
St. Cyril the Peacemaker
St. Cyril, after whom the Cyrillic alphabet is named, is a peacemaker saint who is cited as a supporter of war. The catechism of the... Read More
Real Saints
In 1994, Jim Forest participated in a peace conference in Chania, Crete in Greece. While there, Jim discovered that old memories of Greco-Turkish conflict were... Read More
Love Proposed from Below: Recovering the Russian Orthodox Tradition of Peace
This article has been re-published from the site Todays American Catholic March 25, 2022 For those of us with a deep love of Russian Orthodox spirituality,... Read More
Christian Witness in a Time of War – Video
Christian Witness in a Time of War: Sr. Vassa Larin, Deacon Brandon Gallaher, and Sergei Chapnin talk about Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine in a... Read More
Блаженны миротворцы
Мы чтим Христа, “Князя Mира” (Исаия 9:6), рождение которого ознаменовалось славословием “Слава в вышних Богу, и на земле мир, в человеках благоволение’’ (Лука 2:14). Христос... Read More
Православные христиане и отказ от военной службы по соображениям совести.
Джим Форест. ”Блаженны миротворцы, ибо они сынами Божиими нарекутся.” Мф. 5:9 Миротворчество – существенное измерение любой деятельности христианина. Изучая жития святых, мы видим, как... Read More
Совесть и война: сказать «да», сказать «нет»
Автор: Джим Форест Новый фильм Терренса Малика «Скрытая жизнь» тесно связан с жизнью Франца Егерштеттера, австрийского фермера, обезглавленного в Берлине в 1943 году за отказ... Read More
Православное основание для отказа от военной службы по убеждениям
Существует распространенное заблуждение, что в православном христианстве нет оснований для отказа от военной службы по убеждениям. На самом деле, в Православной церкви уже давно есть... Read More
The Nobel Peace Prize Saint
Today, the last Tsar, St. Nicholas II is remembered by historians as a mostly inept ruler who oversaw the final days of the Russian Empire.... Read More
CHRISTIAN WITNESS IN A TIME OF WAR
The Russian war in Ukraine has created a crisis within the Church. How should Christians respond to warfare, especially when many of the aggressors and... Read More
The Iconoclasm of War
been destroyed or damaged by shelling or other acts of violence by Russian forces. Of the Orthodox Churches destroyed, a great number are of the Moscow Patriarchate. This is surprising on one level, given that President Putin on February 21 cited the "destruction" of the Moscow Patriarchate as a pretext for his invasion.
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