Food for every season, blessings and curses, and exorcising evil spirits are only some of the many folk traditions associated with Orthodoxy; they make up for what they lack in formal status with a more immediate presence in the lives of the faithful. Alongside other aspects of church life (theology, history, politics, liturgy, art, and[…..]
Section: Editorial
To Our Readers
Foreword
”The heart of another is a dark forest,” writes Ivan Turgenev in A Month in the Country. This is true, indeed, not only of the heart of another, but equally of my own heart: that too is “a dark forest.” In the words of the Psalmist, “The heart is deep” (Ps. 64:6). There are profundities[…..]
Being Human
Being human: how could that be an issue? Perhaps it wasn’t in the past, when what it is to be human was agreed by all and taken for granted. But if we look back to the past, we must try to ensure we look back to the real past, and not simply project back an[…..]
To Our Readers
To Our Readers
Have We Traded the Holy Spirit for Ideology?
The Orthodoxy of my youth no longer exists in the United States (or perhaps in the world) today. The young, immigrant-heavy American Church had grown up into an openness to change, liturgical reform, improved conciliar approaches to Church governance, and a dynamic parish interaction.
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Camera Obscura: Women and Church Leadership
Raise your hand if you knew that a priest in the Orthodox Church may not celebrate the Eucharist on his own. There must always be at least one other person present, in order to form a “congregation.” I learned this in my catechumenate thirty years ago, and it still strikes me as beautiful that our[…..]