The One Sin for Which the Orthodox Church Gives a Blessing by Fr. Mark Korban
MANY CHRISTIANS today are unfamiliar with the mindset of Christians in the first three centuries of the Christian era. This time period... Read More
A Bag of Bullets by Aaron Haney
And in the Kingdom of God they shall beat their swords into plowshares and the lion shall lie down with the lamb.... Read More
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... Read More
On the blessing of weapons and soldiers: Letter to Patriarch Kirill in Moscow and All Russia
On February 3 2020, the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church, an advisory body that helps the Russian Hierarchy make decisions,... Read More
Incorporating Culture: Truth, Reconciliation and the Pathway to Peace
By Lydia Kemi Ingram After this I looked, and behold a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from... Read More
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Transfiguration
A light appeared from above and everything changed. In the sky there was a great cloud, and the light radiated forth brighter... Read More
How many thousands of innocent men, women, and children have you killed today?
July 20, 2016 The collective gasp at new British PM Theresa May articulating clearly her willingness to do the will of the... Read More
War and Peace in Today’s World: a commentary on the Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World”
“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.
Cover Story IC70: From Herod to ISIS through Christ
From Herod to ISIS through Christ: No Record of Retribution! by Pieter Dykhorst Having beheld the strange and ineffable humility of the... Read More