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Modern Slavery—A Joint Declaration

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.”

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...

Racism: An Orthodox Perspective

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Aristotle Papanikolaou The primary goal of the Orthodox Christian is to struggle toward theosis—deification. The word theosis often conjures up images of a super hero...

Standing on the Side that is Right: An Interview with Fr. Chat Hatfield

Nicholas Sooy

3.14.2018—Nicholas Sooy (“NS”) and Fr. Chad Hatfield (“CH”) CH: Well, this story that I’m about to tell is something that I shared here at St....

The Meaning of the Cross

Nicholas Sooy

Last year I was sitting with Fr. Andrew Louth and I asked him when do we as Orthodox Christians celebrate peace? Holy Peace (Agia Eirene),...

Agia Skepi Sustainability Center in Cyprus

Nicholas Sooy

Agia Skepi, a detoxification community in Cyprus, inspires members within the framework of its therapeutic program to engage themselves in the cultivation of biological products. This solution springs from the broader spirit of Agia Skepi in getting rid of harmful substances while fostering a high quality of life.

What Are You Fighting For?

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Hieromonk Fr. Seraphim Aldea was in Paris shortly after the November 2015 attacks in Paris. In the following, written shortly after the attacks, he reflects on peace and violence in light of these attacks. In the addendum, written two months later, Fr. Seraphim responds to some criticisms of his initial reflection.

The Gospel Command of Nonviolence

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This is a pastoral letter from Metropolitan Tikhon of the OCA, issued August 10, 2014. Metropolitan Tikhon expresses solidarity with those suffering in war, and calls all Christians to be witnesses for peace, living out in their own lives “the Gospel’s command to adhere to peace and non-violence.”

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Modern Slavery—A Joint Declaration

Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking as a Parish

Hope to a World Filled With Shadows – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

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

Restoration of the Human Icon: Divine Compassion and Human Trafficking

Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking – Kevin Hyland

Saints, Nuns, and the Sex Trade

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

Race and the Fall By Pieter Dykhorst

Incorporating Culture: Truth, Reconciliation and the Pathway to Peace

THE ARCHBISHOP IN ALABAMA

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

The Cost of Discipleship

Incorporating Culture: Truth, Reconciliation and the Pathway to Peace

Racism: An Orthodox Perspective

Standing on the Side that is Right: An Interview with Fr. Chat Hatfield

The Meaning of the Cross

Agia Skepi Sustainability Center in Cyprus

What Are You Fighting For?

The Gospel Command of Nonviolence

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