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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=1752 Beginnings by Peter Bouteneff Baker Academic 256 pages, $23 The question of the origin of humankind and the cosmos has perhaps never been so hotly debated as nowadays, with “evolution” and “creationism” presenting themselves as polar opposites. In this fine book, Peter Bouteneff presents a carefully researched and scholarly reading of early Christian readings of the creation account in [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 0e33d976d794c3e95107a9d19642d84f incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:03:21 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1750 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 Pear-son <markp 0at) earlham.edu> or Jim Forest <jhforest (at) gmail.com>. Fellowship of St. Maria: St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kenosha, Wisconsin has launched a “Fellowship of St. Maria of Paris” to [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> e0d85bbf1f33492e1f60e9d9e255b6e4 incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:01:56 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1748 Moscow Patriarchate opposes death penalty In October, the Moscow Patriarchate called on Russia to abstain from executions. “Certainly, it’s better not to practice the death penalty,” Arch­priest Vsevo­lod Chaplin told reporters in Mos­cow. “If society is strong enough to secure itself from criminality and evil will, it can be merciful to criminals and not deprive [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> c65534f7f00b96af4086190bac82e978 incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:56:36 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1746 by Fr. Steven Tsichlis In September 2000, at the turn of the third millennium, 25 parishioners from St. Paul’s Greek Orthodox Church and St. John Neu­mann’s Roman Catholic Church in Irvine, California, began gathering month­ly for a Christian book club that has provided an opportunity to pray and study together, to explore our common roots in [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 865d7e35833d02c836c73dcf2c4f6739 incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:55:33 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1744 by Fr. Philip LeMasters There is no question that we Orthodox Christians would prefer to make peace instead of war, but even in the context of Christian ethics, it is difficult to shift the categories of discussion from “just war” to “just peace.” Unfortunately, like so many others, we too are in the habit of [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 302e32f19181e06d8e78331e1545eb23 incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:54:28 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1742 by Jim Forest The Beatitudes include the words, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” Christ himself bears witness to what peacemaking looks like. He sought out both those who were drawn to him and were threatened by him. We see his love of enemies in his readiness to respond to [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> cadd295e8a878aa8e1f3b49ae9a3b8a4 incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:53:20 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1740 by Danny Abbott Orthodox Christians lost a fearless bishop with the death November 15 of Patriarch Pavle, long-time lea­der of the Serbian Orthodox Church. A man of exceptional humility and a tireless voice for peace in the Balkans, he was widely regarded by his fellow Serbs and many others as a living saint. Born Gojko Stojcevi? in [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> e0e1c76b9e8d3c5532ee013598714c8c incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:52:21 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1738 by Michael Taylor Susan Holman is a scholar of the social justice tradition in the early church. Her new book is God Knows There’s Need: Christian Responses to Poverty (Oxford Uni­ver­sity Press). She also wrote The Hungry are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cap­pa­docia. Holman, a research writer and editor at the Fran?ois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 499caef2abd635b99e5ead9eee3ddbf9 incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:51:10 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1736 by St. Basil the Great (or a follower) The following text, often attributed to St. Basil the Great, is now regarded by some scholars as the work of one of Basil’s followers. This translation is the work of C. Paul Schroeder and is included in his collection of St. Basil’s writings On Social Justice, newly published [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> aa6a211952b51b3a680b10c44a3b1bf9 incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:49:43 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1734 By Fr. Justin Mathews God calls us to share in His love, a love which expresses itself in acts of compassion for all who are broken-hearted and in need. In doing this, we become God’s own hands. Such practical service changes lives and transforms our world, one person at a time. Participation in God’s compassion is more [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 9673b07a283e780982f285fb537c19dd incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:48:21 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1732 by Bev Cooke It’s time for lunch! Deacon Kevin grabs a sack of sandwiches. The rest of us grab the table and boxes of drinks, granola bars and fresh fruit, then truck them over to the tree on Harris Green. People start moving toward us even before we’ve set up the table. I see Anthony [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 65c2d2357e12deadedbe57331d8dc055 incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:46:14 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1730 To forgive does not mean to forget what has happened, but to shoulder the weight of another person’s frailty or even another person’s evil. St. Paul says, “Learn to carry one another’s burdens.” These bur­dens are often the failure of each of us to be worthy of our calling – our incapacity to love one [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 7d27481fca1f0fa4b0c70c96a7594613 incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:44:52 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1728 Dear In Communion reader, This first issue of the year 2010 makes a special link with St. Basil the Great, one of the towering figures of fourth-century Christianity, a saint who not only helped lay the theological foundations of Orthodox Christianity, but also provided an astonishing model of what love of neighbor involves. Down though the centuries [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 142394c60850be7c3a7c9b26bc7a3217 incommunion.org Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:43:14 +0300 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1693 Hidden Holiness by Michael Plekon University of Notre Dame Press, $25 A poem by Matthew Brown that introduces the first chapter to Fr. Michael’s text reveals a “bottom-up” approach to holiness, which understands that the kenosis of Christ altered forever the fabric of the creation and raised humanity into God. In like manner, Brown’s poem portrays faithful people [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> bce53d420043783328f68863d61e2aff incommunion.org Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:54:24 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1686 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>. Fervent supplication: Here is a petition for possible inclusion in the Liturgy during the Litany of Fervent Supplication. It is intended for use in Orthodox [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> df25e7a546ab784441360fdd72f598f8 incommunion.org Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:54:23 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1675 Patriarch Kirill visits Ukraine A ten-day trip to Ukraine by Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church included visits to a monument to victims of the Stalin-era famine, a liturgy that drew thousands to the scenic but tense Crimean peninsula, and a pilgrimage to Pochaev, one of the most important monasteries in the Orthodox Church. The [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 5b869807ca98d72aa44b78818862b6ee incommunion.org Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:54:22 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1669 You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any one would sue you and take [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 9a8d2c382834a60a7ca3d12d20bfe9fa incommunion.org Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:54:21 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1662 by Archbishop Makarios of Kenya Despite many areas of progress, the past century has been the most brutal age in the history of humanity. What is most shocking about the many conflicts is that it is not the combatants who were the main victims, but rather the most vulnerable members of society – children, women, the [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 7b7b6913e33b247c318c9d6999599d35 incommunion.org Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:54:20 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1656 by Fr. Stephen Freeman There are many who imagine theologically that at some later point, a final judgment, God’s justice, will be manifest. In this manifestation of justice, the punishments of hell figure prominently. Of course, this is simply poor theology. Eternity in hell is not a matter of justice nor can it ever be. Justice [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 7eb500225c6472930d7c8a01f3d6f6e2 incommunion.org Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:54:19 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1649 Reflections on Adam, Christ, and Us by Peter Bouteneff Many think about Adam and Eve from the perspective of debates about the age of the universe and the origin of human beings. The Church Fathers and the liturgy have a completely different starting point, less in terms of cosmology than Christology. The Church rarely mentions Adam without [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 04c1bd2fbb870a0904bd37d4e95aab18 incommunion.org Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:54:18 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1638 An Orthodox Christian approach to peacemaking by Jim Forest “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.” This verse from St. Matthew’s Gospel comes immediately after the [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> ecef66d5a9d0dc61a3875f42e2c89638 incommunion.org Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:54:17 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1629 The first great feast of the Liturgical year celebrates the nativity of the Blessed Virgin. It is appropriate that, during these first days of the new year, we should be brought into the presence of the highest example of human holiness, that of the mother of Jesus Christ. During vespers, several lessons from the Old Testament [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 37eb024ed9cd8f387fe81dff7694b221 incommunion.org Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:29:40 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1626 Dear In Communion reader, One of the topics discussed in this issue is how often we prefer justice, as humanly understood, to forgiveness and mercy. For Fr. Stephen Freeman, the matter isn’t an abstract question. Two members of his family were victims of murder. Similar wounds exist in many American families, mine among then. I still [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> c32524cc8cf658bf65f830ca5b02fe7e incommunion.org Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:23:54 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1571 Dear In Communion reader, It always surprises me, for a journal of so modest a size, how much we manage to get into it. It’s a bit like Holland, small but densely populated. Walking home this morning, having left the paper edition of In Communion with the printer, I thought about the longest piece in this issue, a selection of [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 13e05eb5758d8a3f40d0da6e85921b3b incommunion.org Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:50:03 +0400 updates http://incommunion.org/?p=1553 A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation By Naim Stifan Ateek Orbis Books, 224 pp, $24 Fr. Naim Ateek has played a major role in promoting Palestinian nonviolent resistance. Rejecting the misuse of scripture by both Jewish and Christian Zionists, his book offers helpful insights to biblical texts that help sustain Palestinian Christians, descendants of the first Christians. The book may [...] <div align='right'><font size='1' face='Tahoma'><a href='http://www.incommunion.org/'>In Communion. Quarterly Journal</a></font></div> 1378e1d85fb390488c5ac4edfa96c9b7 incommunion.org Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:35:52 +0400 updates