Race and the Fall By Pieter Dykhorst
By Pieter Dykhorst Racism cannot be addressed in isolation. Racism at its root springs from human divisiveness and our fallen propensity for conflict across difference,... Read More
Racism
The following excerpt is from the Orthodoxy in America Lecture given by Professor Albert J. Raboteau at Fordham University, Bronx, New York, entitled, “In the World, Not of the World, For the Sake of the World: Orthodoxy and American Culture” on April 4, 2006. An Orthodox response to poverty and social injustice, the lecture goes on to elucidate the teaching and actions of the Church Fathers in obedience to the Gospel commandments. Below we spotlight an almost forgotten moment in American Orthodox history – when His Eminence Iakovos, Greek Archbishop of North and South America, stepped forward as an Orthodox Christian against injustice.
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 all tribes and... Read More
THE ARCHBISHOP IN ALABAMA
The following excerpt is from the Orthodoxy in America Lecture given by Professor Albert J. Raboteau at Fordham University, Bronx, New York, entitled, “In the... Read More
The Cost of Discipleship
by Fr. David Kirk, of blessed memory, founder of Emmaus House in Harlem. When I was a young man of eighteen, working with Dr. King... Read More
St. Moses the Black A Patron Saint of Non-Violence By Pieter Dykhorst
BLACK AS SIN and white as snow. That was Abba Moses, the 4th century, desert Saint, known not only for the dark color of his... Read More
The African American Witness to the Sacred Gift of Life
by Albert J. Raboteau a lecture given at the Orthodox Peace Fellowship conference at St. Tikhon's Monastery, South Canaan, Pennsylvania, in June 2002 On Sunday... Read More