March 21 - For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church

The beauty of creation is disfigured by all forms of violence, physical, psychological, fiscal and social. While those who perpetrate violence harm others, they also shrink their own soul. Their very being suffers a moral injury.

March 14 - For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church

“When the eternal Son became human, divesting himself of his divine glory and exchanging the “form of God” for the form of a servant, he elected thereby to identify himself with the most marginal, politically powerless, and socially disadvantaged persons of his age.”

March 7 - For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church

In the course of human life, from conception through childhood, adulthood, and the final stages of life there are significant moral and spiritual questions that arise. Those who marry, monastics, and single persons all face challenges and make decisions with implications both personal and which shape and reshape our common social life.

February 28 - For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church

Work on issues and themes of religion and public life over many years it has been obvious that when religion and public life cross paths there is often an accident. The tragedy is this accident usually leads to public rhetoric which gives us the worst of religious and civil thinking when we need the best.

David GoaFebruary 24, 2021David Goa, Florin-Toader Tomoioaga, Andrew Bingham, The Church in the Public Square

February 21 - For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church

Our first discussion will frame the theological background of the document and speak to the difficult and demanding challenges we face in this moment in history and the gifts, at the heart of the Orthodox ethos, to speak a healing word far beyond the confines of the church. It is a word many in our word are hungry to hear.

David GoaFebruary 18, 2021David Goa, Florin-Toader Tomoioaga, Oradea, Andrew Bingham

For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church

You are invited to join a series of reflections and conversations with Andrew Bingham and David Goa on For the Life of the World, Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church.

David GoaFebruary 1, 2021David Goa, Florin-Toader Tomoioaga, Oradea, Andrew Bingham