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Standing on Cracking Ice: A chapter from Writing Straight with Crooked Lines by Jim Forest

IN MARCH 1985 a political event occurred in the USSR that was to make the world a less dangerous place: Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary...

The Christian Peacemaker Symbolized as a Soldier – A chapter from The Way of the Peacemaker by Eric Simpson.

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THE MOTIF of the Christian mission expressed by the figure of a soldier may be found throughout the New Testament, as well as in the...

OPF Virtual speaker’s series – Jim Forest – Writing Straight with Crooked Lines

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We are pleased to announce that OPF will be launching a virtual speaker's series, starting on July 10. July 10, 2021 | 15:00 UTC Jim...

Ethics of the Resurrection + PROTOPRESBYTER JOHN MEYENDORFF

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This is a reposting of a post originally found here Human life is inevitably dominated by worries, preoccupations, fears or concerns with the one sure...

On the blessing of weapons and soldiers: Letter to Patriarch Kirill in Moscow and All Russia

Nicholas Sooy

On February 3 2020, the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church, an advisory body that helps the Russian Hierarchy make decisions, released a draft...

Poetry-For I am Your Child By Savelia Curniski

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The following poem was composed by Savelia Curniski, president of NASHI. Nashi is the Ukrainian word for “ours.” NASHI is a Canadian-based organization that fights...

Modern Slavery—A Joint Declaration

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Modern Slavery—A Joint Declaration 1. We, Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, and Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, co-sponsored...

Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking as a Parish

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“This Forum is to rectify the direction society is heading in, and to find real and concrete means to fight against this unacceptable expression of...

Hope to a World Filled With Shadows – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

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The following address was delivered by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on January 7, 2019 in Istanbul. Several years ago, the Ecumenical Patriarch launched...

The Habit of Social Justice: An Interview with the Nuns of All Saints

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This interview was originally printed in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of “The Wheel.” Gregory Tucker conducted the interview, sitting down with Gerondissa Foteini and Sister...

Restoration of the Human Icon: Divine Compassion and Human Trafficking

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His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos Ware originally delivered this essay as a talk in June 2015 at a conference on Divine Compassion and Human Trafficking hosted...

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking – Kevin Hyland

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Kevin Hyland, OBE was appointed as the first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner of the UK. Before that he led London Metropolitan Police’s human trafficking unit. He...

Saints, Nuns, and the Sex Trade

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January 11 is International Human Trafficking Awareness day. January 11 is also the day that Christians all over the world celebrate St. Vitalis of Gaza,...

Letter from the Editor: Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking – Issue 73

Nicholas Sooy

Although the number of people living in bondage or slavery as a percentage of the global population has dropped, the actual number of people living...

Race and the Fall By Pieter Dykhorst

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By Pieter Dykhorst Racism cannot be addressed in isolation. Racism at its root springs from human divisiveness and our fallen propensity for conflict across difference,...

Incorporating Culture: Truth, Reconciliation and the Pathway to Peace

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By: Lydia Kemi Ingram After this I looked, and behold a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and...

THE ARCHBISHOP IN ALABAMA

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The following excerpt is from the Orthodoxy in America Lecture given by Professor Albert J. Raboteau at Fordham University, Bronx, New York, entitled, “In the...

News: Church Seminar Considers Questions of War and Peace in Ukraine

Nicholas Sooy

The second seminar of the commission “Truth, Justice and Reconciliation between Russia, Ukraine and the EU” was held at Kiev on October 2 &3, 2018....

And in Selma, Alabama, when I was being interrogated, and all the policemen spat in my face, the face of the white nigger-lover, and only grace kept me from spitting back—grace plus common sense, for I knew I would have been a dead white nigger-lover. I sat in Birmingham jail with Dr. Martin Luther King as he wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”