Celebrating the Liturgy as a Way to Promote Peace
Our parish in Deventer, belonging to the “Archdiocese of Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe”, so the “rue Daru” to keep... Read More
Lessons Learned from a Protestant Minister
This summer, after a life of relative ignorance, my personal weakness towards the passion of anger came painfully close to the surface.... Read More
Some Reflections on the Approaching Great and Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church
by Rev. Dr. Andrew Louth It seems to me of paramount importance that the Synod, as His All-Holiness asserts, should show that... Read More
Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev: Will the Ecumenical Ship Sink?
Excerpts from the interview Q: Doesn't membership in the World Council of Churches (WCC) obligate acceptance of its fundamental principles which contradict... Read More
Cherishing enemies
The law used to demand that your neighbor be loved and allowed hatred against an enemy. Faith, rather, requires that enemies be... Read More
Towards a New Ecumenism
by Christos Yannaras Christos Yannaras is Professor of Philosophy at Pantion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. His books include Freedom... Read More
A Christian perspective on Islam
Not much time has passed since Europe was last in danger of being overrun by Islam. In 1453, Constantinople, the Eastern bulwark... Read More
A Round-about Way of Becoming Orthodox
an interview with Fr. Alexis Voogd by Jim Forest Fr. Alexis Voogd, with his wife Tatiana and several others, founded St. Nicholas... Read More
Getting Our Robes Dirty
by Fr. Paul Schroeder There is a legend about St. Nicholas and St. John Cassian that explains why it is that St.... Read More
Rebuilding Russian Orthodoxy the Ecumenical Issue
by Vladimir Zelinsky "This, too, is a lesson we have to learn: besides the unmasking of humanism without God, the discovery of... Read More