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A Fitting Way to Celebrate the Year 2000

by Tom Snowdon There is your brother, naked and crying! And you stand confused over choice of floor covering. (St. Ambrose of Milan, +397) I...

The Role of Conscience

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Fr. John Breck The conscience reflects the divine image in which we are created. It may be considered a function of our nature, which itself...

A Prayer for Peace

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We pray, O Lord our God, for all those who suffer from acts of war [in .............]. We pray for Your peace and Your mercy...

E-mail Conversations Summer 1999

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The Littleton High School Tragedy This sad event underlines how few resources young people have as long as exclusion, ridicule,harassing, bullying, are accepted as "normative"...

Monastic Peacemaking in Kosovo

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several press reports about activities of the monks of Decani Monastery Decani Monks' Courage Saved the Lives of Many Kosovars The war was ending, but...

I was Homeless and You Cared for Me

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by Fr. Luke A. Veronis Fr. Luke Veronis and his wife Faith have been assigned by the Orthodox Church in American to assist His Beatitude...

Who is the Winner? The War in the Balkans

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The War in the Balkans by Milan Radovanovic The author, a member of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship living in Belgrade, is finishing his studies at...

Obituary for a Bridge

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by Mirko Mandrino Last night NATO finally finished destroying the bridge at Novi Sad, a bridge that spanned the most beautiful river in the world,...

Letter from Kosovo's Bishop Artemije

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The Serbian Orthodox Church and our faithful people deeply regret all what has happened in this region. As much as we feel solidarity with suffering...

The Situation of the Church in Kosovo

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by Mother Maria Rule Here are extracts from a talk given by Mother Maria Rule, a Russian Orthodox nun of English origin, at the church...

The Serbian Orthodox Church

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Not What We Have Been Led to Believe by Jim Forest The cover of a recent issue of the British weekly magazine The Tablet displayed...

E-mail Conversations Fall 1999

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The Balkans Wars Where was the opposition to the war? The lack of it in the media was more stifling than the ozone-filled streets of...

The Theological Necessity for Humor

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by David Athey In a collection of essays called Holy Laughter, Conrad Hyers says, "A common trait of dictators, revolutionaries, and ecclesiastical authoritarians alike is...

The Bystander

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It's now fashionable in some quarters to blame two groups for the Nazi Holocaust: the perpetrators and the bystanders. Yet I discovered from personal experience...

Searching for Kitezh: a conversation with Alexander Ogorodnikov

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Alexander Ogorodnikov was born in 1950. At age 17, he was a lathe operator at a clock factory. Three years later he began philosophy studies...

The Passions: Enemy or Friend?

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Orthodox Peace Fellowship retreat in Vzelay, April 1999 second lecture by Bishop Kallistos Consider the word "wonder." We have come to a place full of...

E-mail Conversations Winter 2000

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Marriage As we see in the Song of Songs, there is an iconographic aspect of marriage. Of course such love is productive, as is God...

Many Offering Death

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by Jim Forest "She is unmarried and pregnant, appears to be in her mid-teens, and is nearly penniless. Religiously obsessed, she suffers acute delusions. She...

Victims and Heroes

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by Renee Zitzloff In January America painfully marked the 27th anniversary of legalized abortion. In this period, in the US alone, 35-40 million unborn children...