Contemporary Issues

“The Social Principles of Jesus” and the Identity of Western Christianity

30 June 2009

It is said that Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) was “the leading spokesman for the theology of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism” (from the introduction by Pelikan, 586). Although a ...

The phoenix is reborn. It’s time to fly

29 June 2009

Andrei Zolotov Jr.

Growing up in 1970s Moscow, I had a nanny who had lived in our family for 45 years. She died in 1981, when she was 93 and I was 13. Like most Soviet people, my family was not religious. My ...

Literature, Culture and the Western Soul

03 June 2009

Instead of running away from our culture, or trying to deny its power in us, we must face it squarely and understand its essence and origin. This is the first step in forming an Orthodox world view, ...

Secular Religion

26 May 2009

Fr. Chrysostom MacDonnell

For many people, perhaps for the majority, religion is seen as beneficial; that it ‘does you good’. From within the small confines of subjective experience, religion makes you a better person, brings ...

Memorial Day Reflection

24 May 2009

Priest Gregory S. Patsis

Specifically with respect to Memorial Day, as an Orthodox Christian, we naturally raise the question: “Why would Americans set aside only one day a year to celebrate our departed loved ones?” Now, ...

On Priestly Formation:Small is Beautiful

15 May 2009

Archpriest Geoffrey Korz

The seeds planted through an Orthodox seminary must be the seeds which will blossom into the fruit of holiness. Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos speaks to this when he reminds us that the goal of ...

Catechesis and Evangelism are not Enough

29 April 2009

Priest Gregory Jensen

The survey data gives us an overview of religious life in American and the place of the Orthodox Church in this broader context. Filled with charts, graphs, and statistics the report is not something ...

Why the Cults?

24 March 2009

Archpriest Paul Yerger

The Waco horrors [a fatal assault by U. S. Agents on the Branch Davidians, a heavily-armed apocalyptic cult, in February, 1993] remind us that millions of Americans of Christian background have left ...

What Do the Converts Want?

11 March 2009

If they stopped and thought about it, most Orthodox converts would call themselves premodern, since the modern world has not served up a wide array of dependable answers. They are looking for beauty ...

Do Unborn Humans Have Human Rights?

23 February 2009

Priest Sergei Sveshnikov

I have been interested in the issue of whether unborn children should have human rights for quite some time. For me personally, this issue was settled before it ever arose: the position of the ...

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30 September

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Epistle of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

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