Invitations for Conversation & Reflection
Over the last year virtually all of the human family has been in the grip of a pandemic. Large populations have been encouraged to isolate, live under curfew, wear masks in public and socially distance, all as an expression of solidarity with their neighbours. “Stay together by staying apart” has become a clarion call.
Read MoreOver the last year virtually all of the human family has been in the grip of a pandemic. Large populations have been encouraged to isolate, live under curfew, wear masks in public and socially distance, all as an expression of solidarity with their neighbours. “Stay together by staying apart” has become a clarion call.
Read MoreOver the last year virtually all of the human family has been in the grip of a pandemic. Large populations have been encouraged to isolate, live under curfew, wear masks in public and socially distance, all as an expression of solidarity with their neighbours. “Stay together by staying apart” has become a clarion call.
Read MoreOur nine part conversation ranges over a number of issues: the Church in the public sphere; the course of human life; poverty, wealth, and civil justice; war, peace, and violence; ecumenical relations and relations with other faiths; orthodoxy and human rights; science, technology, and the natural world; concluding with Andrew and David reflecting on the document and how it is heard and received and why it should be a staple, not only for Orthodox Christians but for all who care about the life of the world.
Read More“Let us the faithful rejoice, having this anchor of hope.”
We have come to the concluding session of thinking together “For the Life of the World, Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church.” We invite you to speak about what you have taken from our study and thinking together.
Read MoreThe twenty-first century is likely to be called, “the age of biology.” Science, and certainly the new breakthroughs in genetic, brain, and ecological sciences, offer the most striking gifts as well as the deepest capacity for making “our common home” no longer a human habitation.
Read MoreThe language, policy, and law of human rights, deeply rooted in the Jewish and Christian traditions of the absolute dignity of the human person, is a singular social advancement of the twentieth century.
Read MoreAt no time in human history are the issues of ecumenical and interfaith relations more important than now. What is the stance of the Church? What does it call us to do and be in our relationship to the great variety of Christian churches? What does it invite us to do in relationship to the women and men of other faiths and to what end?
Read MoreThe 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.
Read More“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.”
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreWork 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.
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