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
Rachel’s Lament: In Communion on Abortion
Rachel’s Lament: In Communion on Abortion The Orthodox Peace Fellowship is pro-life but not exactly in the way the term is typically used. Pro-life... Read More
Rachel's Lament: In Communion on Abortion
Rachel’s Lament: In Communion on Abortion The Orthodox Peace Fellowship is pro-life but not exactly in the way the term is typically used. Pro-life... Read More
Letter from the editor IC69
Ukraine Crisis: Truth the First Casualty guest editorial by Jim Forest Wars are fought not only with weapons but with words and propaganda.... Read More
Where Love Is Never Treason
by Jim Forest One day Jesus asked the question, “Do people gather figs from thistles?” The answer is of course no––you harvest... Read More
Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment
Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment may sound like the start of one of those tough theology lessons you want to dodge because you just don’t want to go through the pain of failing the exam.
An appeal to forbid the blessing of weapons
The following letter was sent by the Orthodox Peace Fellowship to Patriarch Pavle, leading bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church, on July... Read More
St. Basil the Holy Fool of Moscow
The Church occasionally canonizes people known as Holy Fools, people whose lives are so at odds with civil and ecclesiastical society that... Read More
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... Read More
A Pilgrimage to Hell
by Jim Forest “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men,... Read More