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

The Great Human Rights Issue of Our Time

Jaroslav Pelikan, distinguished Christian scholar and longtime professor at Yale University, also a member of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship advisory board, speaks of abortion as...

E-mail Conversations Spring 2000

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America's vast prison population A study by the Justice Policy Institute calculates that on February 15, America's prison population exceeded two million. The number is...

News Spring 2000

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Kosovar Leaders Appeal for End to Hate Ethnic Albanian political leaders Hashim Thaci, Ibrahim Rugova, Rexhep Qosja, and Mahmut Bakalli joined Serbian Orthodox Archbishop Artemije,...

Cleansing by Tears

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by Renee Zitzloff In the early eighties I became involved in the pro-life movement, first as a crisis pregnancy counselor, later as a "rescuer." Rescuers...

Building Peace in the Home

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by Bridget Hickey-Williams It's fifteen years since I inherited my family of four children, then five, seven, nine and eleven years old. Although I entered...

The Universal Character of Monastic Spirituality

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by Paul Evdokimov Father Georges Florovsky recalls that "too often one forgets the provisory character of monasticism." St. John Chrysostom declared that monasteries "are necessary...

Go Forth in Peace

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The Liturgy After the Liturgy by Bishop Kallistos of Diokleia At the end of Bright Week last year, Bishop Kallistos led a retreat on "Sacraments...

E-mail Conversations Summer 2000

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Holland's low abortion rate Interestingly, in the Netherlands the one ad you're most likely to see in any train station in the country is designed...

News Summer 2000

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Decani monks continue efforts for multi-cultural Kosovo In the forests at the foot of the Western Kosovo Junik mountain, a handful of Serbian Orthodox monks...

Blessed are the Peacemakers

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by Jim Forest An elder said, "I have spent twenty years fighting to see all human beings as one." -- Sayings of Those Who Grew...

Saints and Spirit-Bearers

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Models for Orthodox Women by Mother Maria Rule The word "saints" was a term applied at an early date to all Christians. It is used...

Models of Self-Emptying Love

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Fr. Alexander Webster In imperial Russia several writers, among them Fyodor Dostoevsky, captured "the mind of the Church" on the issue of war and peace...

E-mail Conversations Fall 2000

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Basic questions for OPF Having been in the "peace movement" most of my adult life, it seemed natural to join an Orthodox Peace Fellowship. However...

News Fall 2000

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Church leader accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing' of Palestinians Archimandrite Theodosios Hanna of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem has accused Israel of practicing "ethnic...

The Double-edged Sword of Nationalism

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Patriarch Bartholomeos of Constantinople No member of the human family has a monopoly on malice - we are all sinners and stand in desperate need...

THE HERESY OF RACISM

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Want to add a useful word to your vocabulary? The term etho-phyletism (meaning love of the race, tribe or ethnically-defined nation) was coined at the...

On Homicide

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Metropolitan George Khodr of Mount Lebanon Metropolitan George is highly regarded throughout Lebanon for his untiring efforts to encourage dialogue and mutual respect as well...

Saint Gerasimos and Jordanes

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Jim Forest Among saints remembered for their peaceful relations with dangerous animals not least is Gerasimos, shown in icons healing a lion. The story behind...

The Church's Role in Serbia's Peaceful Revolution

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For years the Serbian Orthodox Church issued appeals for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to retire from political office and supported efforts to create a democratic...