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Recommended Reading – Winter 2006
Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit by Herman A. Middleton Protecting Veil Press, 2004 The Precious Vessels are eight 20th-century Greek elders, each presented in... Read More
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Conversations by e-mail – Winter 2006
These are extracts from recent postings to the OPFs e-mail discussion list. A life based in experience Orthodoxy, being a way of life that is... Read More
News Winter 2006
Iraq War: body counts revived Eager to demonstrate success in Iraq, the US military has abandoned its previous refusal to publicize enemy body counts and... Read More
Waking Up Under a Green Sky
By Maria C. Khoury Driving to school the day after the Palestinian elections and seeing green flags everywhere was an overwhelming shock. I had been... Read More
Elisabeth Behr-Sigel, 1907-2005
by Jerry Ryan On November 26, Elisabeth Behr-Sigel died while reading in bed. She was 98. Until the end she was alert, ever-curious and active.... Read More
Mrs. Jellyby and the Domination of Causes
by Jim Forest Among the many memorable characters populating Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House is the formidable Mrs. Jellyby, a woman living in London who... Read More
An Abbess Who Said No
An interview with Mother Maria of Asten A convent, chickens, inspectors, arrests, interrogations, lawyers, and the mass media: these were elements of a recent drama... Read More
Learning Forgiveness in Narnia
by Eric Simpson Recently I took my son to see the film version of C.S. Lewis novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. More... Read More
Practical Assistance in Conflict Areas
By Sheri San Chirico While taking a fresh look at the Orthodox Peace Fellowship website, I was reminded of the OPFs three principal work areas:... Read More
St. Basil’s Guidance on War and Repentance
By Fr. John McGuckin St. Basil of Caesarea, also known as St. Basil the Great, was a younger contemporary of Eusebius, and in the following... Read More
St. Basil's Guidance on War and Repentance
By Fr. John McGuckin St. Basil of Caesarea, also known as St. Basil the Great, was a younger contemporary of Eusebius, and in the following... Read More
Belgrade Dialogue on Reconciliation
by Jim Forest Perhaps the high point of a meeting of church leaders gathered in Belgrade February 18-22, 1996, was a confessional statement by Father... Read More
Recommended Reading – Fall 2005
Orthodoxy for the Non-Orthodox by John Garvey Templegate, 136 pp, $12 Death and the Rest of Our Life by John Garvey Wm. B. Eerdmans, 96... Read More
News section – Fall 2005
Republican senator: Iraq looking like Vietnam A Republican senator and prospective presidential candidate said in August that the war in Iraq has destabilized the Middle... Read More
Orthodox Christians and Conscientious Objection
by Jim Forest "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God." - Matthew 5:9 Peacemaking is an essential dimension of any... Read More
On the Lord’s Prayer
by Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh When the disciples asked the Lord to teach them how to pray, He gave them this prayer, and the first... Read More
Downward Mobility
By Joe May Let me begin with a story. It involves a beautiful wool pillowcase hand-woven in Greece in the late 1930s. Both the pillowcase... Read More
The Sign of the Cross
Fr. Luke Veronis Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Russian author who spent many years in the gulag of Siberia, bears witness to the power of the cross.... Read More
New Page: Remembering Jim Forest – Essays and Articles
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