Incommunion IC 64 2012 Archives

St. Melangell

ONCE IN A while, one comes across a lovely tale of a prince or princess who becomes a Saint by leading a...

How’s this for a mission statement? –Epistle to Diognetus

For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit...

Letter from the Editor IC 64

ON MAY 4TH, the Dutch celebrate Dodenherdenking, Remembrance of the Dead, a holiday like Remembrance Day in Commonwealth countries and Veterans Day in the...

Opening the Doors of Compassion: Cultivating a Merciful Heart

by Fr. John D. Jones As Orthodox Christians, we recognize the ultimate goal of the Christian life to be theosis or divinization—becoming...

Saint Alexander Schmorell: A Canonization in Munich

by Jim Forest Saints come in many sizes and varieties, ranging from kings to beggars, surgeons to street sweepers, scholars to the...

Forgiving All in the Light of the Resurrection: A Scientific Approach

by Elizabeth Gassin and Robert Enright What is forgiveness? When we began studying forgiveness in the 1980s, our first concerns were definitional....

Serving the Poor: Beyond Food, Clothing, and Shelter

by Julia Demaree For where two or three are gathered in my Name, I am there in their midst. –Jesus (Matt. 18:20)...

The wrong choice

by Auke de Leeuw My name is Auke Siebe Dirk. I was named after my uncle Dirk Siebe, A boy who...

News IC 64

Patriarch Bartholomew critical of Greek anathemas Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has written to Greece’s Archbishop, deploring anti–ecumenical statements from within the Church....