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Peace for Our Souls
Family Life in an Orthodox Rhythm by Valerie Zahirsky Those colorful pages of store ads that come tucked into the Sunday newspaper tell us something... Read More
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Good Reading
Mother Maria Skobtsova: Essential Writings Orbis Books, 2003, pp 192, $15 ISBN: 1-57075-436-5 edited by Helene Klepinin-Arjakovsky preface by Olivier Clement, introduction by Jim Forest Many... Read More
Correspondence
Sleepless nights Sleepless nights for all who dread the coming war. We struggle as Christians about "individual" responses to violence but the discipleship and purpose... Read More
A Round-about Way of Becoming Orthodox
an interview with Fr. Alexis Voogd by Jim Forest Fr. Alexis Voogd, with his wife Tatiana and several others, founded St. Nicholas of Myra Russian... Read More
News Reports
News section, In Communion, February 2003
Raphael House: A Place of Welcome
By Maria Nash Raphael House --- a place of welcome for homeless families in San Francisco --- was founded in 1971 by a community in... Read More
Communion and Calling
a reflection on providing hospitality by Fr. Brooks Ledford On a crisp autumn afternoon the telephone at the San Antonio Catholic Worker House rings, and... Read More
The Hospitality of Abraham & Sarah
by Jessica Rose I was first introduced to the Rublev icon of the Trinity, also known as the "Hospitality of Abraham and Sarah," by a... Read More
St Seraphim and the bear
One day a nun from the nearby convent of Diveyevo, coming to visit St. Seraphim at his hermitage in the woods near Sarov, found the... Read More
From the teachings of St. Seraphim of Sarov
"God is fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. And so, if we feel in our hearts coldness, which is from the... Read More
Monasticism and the Way of Radical Peace
On this earth, peace is not an end in itself. We do not believe in an earthly utopia. There will be disagreements, violence, terrorism and... Read More
American-Christian Theology and Support for War
by Greg Cook Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of... Read More
Wormwood on War
As C.S. Lewis discovered 60 years ago, devils write letters advising each other on strategies of damnation. Those Lewis discovered were published as The Screwtape... Read More
Conversations by E-Mail
These are extracts from postings to the OPF's e-mail discussion list.
Book Reviews
Book reviews Summer 2003
Good Reading
Book reviews In Communion 31 / Fall 2003
Conversations by e-mail november
These are extracts from postings to the OPF's e-mail discussion list. Sanctity of all life It is important for OPF to champion a "sanctity of... Read More
News Fall 2003
contents Iraqi archbishop: "Nothing good has happened for us" Foundation laid for church in North Korea Serbia's Patriarch Pavle calls for end to violence in... Read More
On Behalf of Unborn Children
An appeal to two Orthodox senators At the Orthodox Peace Fellowship conference at St. Tikhon's Monastery in June, it was decided that the North American... Read More
New Page: Remembering Jim Forest – Essays and Articles
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Yes, here’s why.
