Incommunion Essays Archives – Page 22 of 23

by Jim Forest lecture for the 1999 Sourozh diocesan conference, 29-31 May, Oxford, England The prayer, "Cleanse us from all impurity," reminds...

by Vladimir Zelinsky "This, too, is a lesson we have to learn: besides the unmasking of humanism without God, the discovery of...

some reflections by Jim Forest for the St Nicholas Evening discussion at St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, Amsterdam, September 23, 2004 It's...

By Joel Klepac The beauty of the icons, the gold-leafed iconostasis, the mesmerizing eternal sounds of the interweaving melodies of five priests...

by John Brady The roster of 20th-century saints includes some who lived very public lives, such as Russia's Royal Martyrs, and not...

by Joe May Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote from his prison cell in Nazi Germany: "We have learned to see the great events of...

by Jim Forest "We should try to live in such a way that if the Gospels were lost, they could be re-written...

Declaration on Environment Signed by Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople Here is the text of the joint declaration signed 10 June 2002...

by Jim Forest My parents were people radically out of step with the America of the cold-war fifties. In those days they...

The voice of Metropolitan John Pelushi My first encounter with Metropolitan John was at the seminary, an impressive complex of new stone...