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Rachel’s Lament: In Communion on Abortion

Rachel’s Lament: In Communion on Abortion The Orthodox Peace Fellowship is pro-life but not exactly in the way the term is typically used. Pro-life movements are normally...

National Identity and Unity: From Babel to Pentecost

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National Identity and Unity: From Babel to Pentecost by Archbishop Makarios of Kenya Despite many areas of progress, the last one hundred years has been the...

You Cannot Serve Two Ideas

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You Cannot Serve Two Ideas: When Ideology and Theology Meet by Fr. John Garvey When I was involved in draft counseling during the war in Vietnam,...

Conversations by email

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Email Conversations Spring 2015 Any member of the OPF may request to be added to our online discussion list where postings and comments are made...

Prayer for Our Enemies

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Prayer for Our Enemies Lord Jesus, You commanded us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us that we may be truly children...

Inside the front cover

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The End of Evil and the Good Man “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (The Oxford Dictionary...

Prayer for Believers to turn from Violence and be Reconciled

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Nothing is more basic to Christian life than prayer. It is the foundation of all other response, not an alternative to response. Please find time...

Serbian Nuns Learn Language of Albanian Muslims

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The eight nuns of a Serbian Orthodox monastery, Sokolica, in religiously polarized Kosovo have decided to learn Albanian so they can talk to Albanian...

Letter from the editor IC69

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Ukraine Crisis: Truth the First Casualty guest editorial by Jim Forest Wars are fought not only with weapons but with words and propaganda. Charge and counter-charge...

St. Patrick’s Challenge to Nationalism

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by Pieter Dykhorst This is how we can repay such blessings, when our lives change and we come to know God, to praise and bear...

Where Love Is Never Treason

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by Jim Forest One day Jesus asked the question, “Do people gather figs from thistles?” The answer is of course no––you harvest what you plant....

Holy Disobedience

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Holy Disobedience: Resistance to Secular and Ecclesiastical Authority by A. Edward Siecienski Christian history, particularly the patristic period, is populated with heroes of the Faith...

War and Virtue

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War and Virtue: The Ascetics of War by Aristotle Papanikolaou Contemporary discussions of just war theory in Christian ethics focus on whether Christians should be in...

The Inward Mission of Our Church

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by St. Fr. Justin Popovich It is very difficult for infinite and eternal life to make its way into the narrow human soul and into...

Poetry in Pictures

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"United and Undivided?" An elderly olive tree whose trunk was split by some trauma when the tree was young. The two halves are separate,...

Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment

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Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment may sound like the start of one of those tough theology lessons you want to dodge because you just don’t want to go through the pain of failing the exam.

The Philokalia: a Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality

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The Philokalia: a Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality Brock Bingaman and Bradley Nassif, eds., Oxford University Press, 2012, 349 pp reviewed by Pieter Dykhorst The...

War and Virtue, full text keynote address OPF conference 2013

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War and Virtue Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University Paper delivered at the annual conference of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship, Washington, DC - October 2013 [The following is...

Patriarch John X Statement

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Patriarch John X Statement (English translation) on the release from captivity of the nuns of Mar Tekla (St. Thecla) monastery in Syria The following is...

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Rachel’s Lament: In Communion on Abortion

National Identity and Unity: From Babel to Pentecost

You Cannot Serve Two Ideas

Conversations by email

Prayer for Our Enemies

Recommended Reading: Being Bread

Inside the front cover

Prayer for Believers to turn from Violence and be Reconciled

Serbian Nuns Learn Language of Albanian Muslims

Letter from the editor IC69

St. Patrick’s Challenge to Nationalism

Where Love Is Never Treason

Holy Disobedience

War and Virtue

The Inward Mission of Our Church

Poetry in Pictures

Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment

The Philokalia: a Classic Text of Orthodox Spirituality

War and Virtue, full text keynote address OPF conference 2013

Patriarch John X Statement

New Page: Remembering Jim Forest – Essays and Articles

Russian War in Ukraine Recent Posts

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