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Orthodox christianity on the Internet: churches, dioceses, monasteries, parishes, web portals, discussion boards, web boards etc.</div> http://incommunion.org/?p=836 The Orthodox Peace Fellowship, an association of Orthodox believers seeking to apply the principles of the Gospel to situations of division and conflict, has written to the leaders of the Orthodox Churches in Russia and Georgia to express support of their recent efforts first to prevent war and then to bring about a cease fire. “What [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> e4c678a479f737824ac833df3da2664a incommunion.org Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:26:47 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=765 His Broken Body by Fr. Laurent Cleenewerck Euclid University Consortium Press; 438 pages, $33.50 Not often is a book published which has the potential to serve as a catalyst for history-making events. His Broken Body: Understanding and Healing the Schism between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians may have that potential. Certainly it will make a book that [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 5a1aa7e9bdeb320d13be7197800d5c62 incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:21:49 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=753 These are extracts from recent postings to the OPF’s e-mail discussion list. If you are an OPF member and wish to take part, contact Mark Pearson (markp@earlham.edu) or Jim Forest (jhforest@gmail.com). Obeying God rather than man: The claim is sometimes made that somehow those who are “decent” are those who are “law abiding.” But in such [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 86e37ee7bf9f9701d24ee94468444ee7 incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:21:48 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=742 Belarus pressures Orthodox not to venerate martyrs Belarus is discouraging the commemoration of Orthodox Christians killed for their faith by the Soviet Union, according to a report issued in May by Forum 18. The Belarussian KGB sought to have icons of the New Martyrs removed from the cathedral in Grodno. New Martyr St. Pavlin, Bishop [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 25b4d7ac7b5ff2399b5854176aa7cbaf incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:21:47 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=735 by Fr. Patrick Radley “I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.” But God said to him, “Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?” – Luke 12:19-20 Do we not [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> df0ed6718ee5a7594207232aa9e48c12 incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:21:46 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=730 by Hilary Kilpatrick The Way, the Truth and the Life”: if we believe that Christ is all these things, we must seek to avoid falsehoods, in personal but also in public life. To lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was not just politically misguided or un-ethical, it was un-Christian. Many of the antagonisms which lead [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> b0342158f1b0c81ddb8d0eb251551775 incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:21:45 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=718 by Fr. Theodore Pulcini Christianity and Islam share much common ground. Both trace their roots to Abraham. Both believe in prophecy, God’s messengers (apostles), revelation, scripture, the resurrection of dead, and the centrality of religious community. Despite these similarities, however, these two religions have significant differences which we need to be aware of, as true dialogue [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 3490f67be7b6746c0d379bb59c8ce281 incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:21:44 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=709 by Nancy Forest When I was growing up, hospitality was something that had a ring of social class to it. It suggested entertaining at home, hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and leisure wear — a lifestyle of “gracious living” that my parents, shy people of modest means, did not share. Even today, we tend to think [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 58c3568d0a12d18e744cab598721ae49 incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:21:43 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=703 an interview with Fr. Meletios Webber Archimandrite Meletios Webber was born in London and received his Masters degree in theology from Oxford University in England and the Thessalonica School of Theology in Greece. He also holds a doctorate in psychotherapy from the University of Montana. He is the author of Steps of Transformation and Bread and [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 2a9feb295c69b58077c29a2e9da73287 incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:21:42 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=697 by Irina von Schlippe There cannot be a Liturgy after the Liturgy without a Liturgy coming first. That is: we cannot go out into the world and serve God without first joining other people in the Eucharist. But can there be a Liturgy without committed service to God preceding it? Surely we must praise God in [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 6076b0d3c2e693033a4da56d8ce9ad0b incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:19:05 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=689 by Jim Forest “Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad.” The Jews then said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.” — John 5:56-58 In Communion [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 5f60dfb537682be6f4ecee40b75ce01e incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:19:04 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=671 Saints called unmercenaries are physicians who offered their healing services while refusing any payment and who, since their repose, continue to heal by their prayers those who call on them in faith. There are three pairs of unmercenary physicians named Cosmas and Damian. The martyrs associated with Rome, shown with Peter and Paul in the mosaic [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 26e06fbec14ee9ef1b62e4873554fcb9 incommunion.org Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:19:03 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/2008/07/in-communion-summer-2008/ Dear reader, This is the 50th issue of In Communion. I wonder if there are some readers of this journal who actually have a complete set? As journals go, ours is a small one — the complete set doesn’t take much space on a bookshelf. We’ve never done more than a 48-page issue. (One of the [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> c8caec945db7210ae7886672003efb4f incommunion.org Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:51:29 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/2008/05/recommended-reading-pascha-spring-2008/ The Orthodox Study Bible Thomas Nelson, 1824 pp, $50 I’ve been looking at the new Orthodox Study Bible, which now includes the Old and New Testaments. Here are my first impressions. New Testament: I was a bit apprehensive about this project, since I had found the earlier edition (which only included the New Testament and Psalms) [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. 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October 24: What goes into making a decision like this, to offer a vital organ to someone? It took me a long time. Several years ago, when Jim first learned that dialysis was in his [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> da6be041ca72b9e64bc59c418a55c2e5 incommunion.org Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:51:25 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/2008/05/fr-david-kirk%e2%80%99s-legacy-of-hope/ by Julia and Albert Raboteau Fr. David Kirk, founder of Emmaus House in New York City’s Harlem, died last year on May 23 at the age of 72. His life was dedicated to service to the poor, to racial justice, and to the homeless. Toward the end of his life, after many years a Catholic priest [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. 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While Mary sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching, Martha was busy in the kitchen. Finally she went to him and said, “Lord, [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> a241e6bd3f3dd2dd12b3bfa4a79c0d8f incommunion.org Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:51:22 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/2008/05/regarding-the-church%e2%80%99s-opposition-to-capital-punishment/ by Fr. Ted Bobosh Any pastor living in a country in which executions are still carried out is likely to be asked why the Orthodox Church throughout the world has for so many centuries opposed, and still opposes, the death penalty. It is all the more confusing to many Christians because the death penalty is sanctioned [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. 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During a public conference held in Moscow at the Polytechnic Museum during the fierce repression of believers, a Bolshevik commissioner in charge of education violently attacked the “out-dated faith” of the people, crying [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> a13f9bab199ef8df831dfd14f5da7751 incommunion.org Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:51:19 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/2008/01/recommended-reading-winter-2008/ Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Random House, 2003. 317 pp. Paul Farmer graduated from Harvard University with degrees in medicine and anthropology. Instead of following the usual paths expected of hyper-achievers, he and a few colleagues founded a clinic in central Haiti, where Farmer still spends half of his year, practicing medicine among some of the world’s [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 3534b2676858ba3ab8f92c8411781a7a incommunion.org Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:51:18 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/2008/01/conversations-by-email-winter-2008/ These are extracts from recent postings to the OPF’s e-mail discussion list. If you are an OPF member and wish to take part, contact Mark Pearson or Jim Forest . Fr. Sophrony’s conquest of England: Here is a wonderful story I came upon in a book by Archimandrite Zacharias, The Enlargement of the Heart (Mount Thabor [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 92f8dda704606955e4b9b9e2d4ac6bd6 incommunion.org Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:51:17 +0400 updates