Finding Peace by Father Lev Gillet
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you.” Jesus gives His peace. He does not loan it; He does not take it back. The peace that is in Jesus “My peace” becomes the disciples’ final possession.
Letter from the Editor, IC66
Dear friends, This morning as I searched for some gem by St. Maximos the Confessor to offer as the first word on... Read More
Peacemaking As Vocation: Toward an Orthodox Understanding by Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis
Peacemaking As Vocation: Toward an Orthodox Understanding by Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find... 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
We Must Refuse to Hate Each Other: Interview with Archpriest Alexey Uminsky
Interview with Archpriest Alexey Uminsky Archpriest Alexey Uminsky is dean of a Moscow parish, Holy Trinity Church in Khokhly. He is also... Read More
A Sermon From Moscow: A Parish Priest Speaks to His Flock
by Fr. Alexander Borisov Dear friends, our short summer is over. It was, as our poet Alexander Pushkin put it, “a parody... Read More
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... 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
Of Whom I am First: on the death of Osama Bin Laden
By Ágúst Symeon Magnússon At the time of this writing most of the world’s newspapers and television channels are reporting on the... Read More
Orthodox Approaches to Nonviolent Resistance
by Fr. Philip LeMasters The Christian faith began in the context of political and military occupation, in a situation where violent acts,... Read More