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War and Peace in Today's Council

Today my response to "The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today's World" was published on Public Orthodoxy, the blog of Fordham's Orthodox Christian Studies...

Facing the Church

Nicholas Sooy

This morning I stepped off my bus into Kolymbari right in front of the Avra Imperial Hotel. "Imperial" is an appropriate title. While it's not...

The Little Ones

Nicholas Sooy

This morning I awoke at the crack of dawn in order to make my way down to the daily liturgy at the Patriarchal and Stavropegial...

The Fishermen as Most Wise

Nicholas Sooy

This island smells like fish. The air, the towns, all is infused with centuries of fish catching, eating, and selling. It’s been difficult to find...

The Gospel in Crete

Nicholas Sooy

This morning, the hierarchs gathered here met in the Church of the Annunciation in Kissamos in order to celebrate the Divine Liturgy of All Souls...

Called to Unity

Nicholas Sooy

I've been on a journey for several days now, which has brought me to where I am now, sitting in the Orthodox Academy of Crete,...

OPF & IC’s Nicholas Sooy arrives in Crete

Nicholas Sooy

The Orthodox Peace Fellowship and In Communion applied to the Holy and Great Council press office for journalist's credentials for Nicholas Sooy to attend and...

OPF & IC's Nicholas Sooy arrives in Crete

Nicholas Sooy

The Orthodox Peace Fellowship and In Communion applied to the Holy and Great Council press office for journalist's credentials for Nicholas Sooy to attend and...

Solomon’s Porch will blog from Crete during the Holy and Great Council Press release from the Ecumenical Patriarch’s delegation presently on Crete June 15th: Solomon’s Porch will blog from Crete during the Holy and Great Council Press release from the Ecumenical Patriarch’s delegation presently on Crete June 15th: Ecumenical Patriarch expresses “joy of the fulfillment of our historical mission”

Some Reflections on the Approaching Great and Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church

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by Rev. Dr. Andrew Louth It seems to me of paramount importance that the Synod, as His All-Holiness asserts, should show that the Orthodox Church...

Mother Maria Skobtsova, Martyr of Sobornost

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Mother Maria Skobtsova, Martyr of Sobornost On the 31st of March, we celebrate the dies natalis of Mother Maria (Skobtsova), a beloved martyr and witness to Christ among the Russian émigré population in France.

War and Peace in Today’s World: a commentary on the Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World”

Nicholas Sooy

“The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World” offers a powerful and timely statement on war, peace, and justice. Peacemaking, as Christ tells us in the Beatitudes, is a fundamental Christian vocation.

APPEAL FOR RECOGNITION OF THE 1946 LVIV ‘SYNOD’ AS A SHAM

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It is urgent for Orthodox Christians to recognize the terrible truth of March 10, 1946. On March 10, 1946, at Lviv, the Orthodox Church of Russia, under pressure from the Soviet government, forcefully integrated the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and claimed jurisdiction over it.