This issue explores the questions that arise from Christianity’s foundations in Judaism (Ready), and the suffering of its people, at times caused by, at times shared by Christians at the hands of Nazi and Communist regimes (Shumylo). It points us to the example of figures who always stood at the intersection of multiple worlds, struggling for peace and community between them (Kishkovsky, Plekon)...

St. John Chrysostom described the family as “a little Church.” He presupposed a household comprised of a father, a mother, and children who live in harmony. Of course, families often differ from this pattern, thus complicating, but not invalidating, the principle that the Church is a family and the family is a church. For our purposes, we will address mixed marriages in which one of the parents is Orthodox, the other is Catholic, they were married in the Orthodox Church, and baptized their children Orthodox. We shall see that the unity of the family does not depend on confessional affiliation. It is blessed in the Orthodox Church, and therefore the separation of the spouses at the chalice is inconsistent with the theology of marriage.

I want to begin with a confession of perspective. I am an Orthodox Christian presbyter, the rector of a small mission parish in Toronto and the Director of Orthodox Christian Studies at Trinity College within the University of Toronto. I am also, for the past decade or so, someone who has been reading with sustained attention the work of scholars associated with what is increasingly called the “within Judaism” school of New Testament interpretation. These two things—Orthodox Christian faith and “within Judaism” scholarship—are the lenses through which everything I am going to say here is refracted...

To understand the bewildering diversity of Christian denominations in today’s India one needs to examine what they have in common—namely, their roots in the apostolic mission of Saint Thomas to India. The ecclesiastical tradition stating that the Apostle Thomas reached India, evangelized, inaugurated Christianity, and was ultimately martyred is well-documented by both Eastern and Western Church fathers and other oral and written sources...

In the spring of 2026, Ukraine commemorated one of the most tragic pages in its history: the anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy in Kyiv. This place is a symbol of the horrific crimes committed by the Nazi occupation regime against the Jewish, Ukrainian, and other peoples, and at the same time a sacred place of remembrance for all of us...

Father Lev Gillet devoted his life to the ecumenical renewal of the Church, working alongside some of the most important Orthodox theologians and churchmen of the twentieth century: Father Sergii Bulgakov, Paul Evdokimov, Vladimir Lossky, Metropolitan Evlogy, Metropolitan Anthony Bloom, and Bishop Kallistos Ware. Yet even among these famous friends and colleagues, he stood out as a person of godliness of a special kind...

In November of 2025, thanks to an invitation from Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), an ecumenical organization of more than 35 church denominations, I had the privilege of attending the Lausanne Orthodox Initiative (LOI) consultation in Wadi El Natrun, Egypt. I attended as an Eastern Orthodox convert from the Orthodox Church of America (OCA), today a largely convert church within the North American context...

This article continues a series of the author’s explorations of face and encounter in the writings of Olivier Clément...

August 3, 2026, marks the fifth anniversary of the repose of Father Leonid Kishkovsky. His son-in-law, Nicholas Sluchevsky (Kolya), met Father Leonid as a young priest in San Francisco in 1970 at a time of profound change. Father Leonid’s daughter, Sophia Kishkovsky (Sonia), who worked as a journalist in Moscow from 1991 to 2020, observed her father’s interaction with the Russian Orthodox Church as it rebuilt after the Soviet rule...

Patriarch Kirill’s recently published book, WAR: Beyond the Visible Causes and Consequences, summarizes much of what he has said and experienced in recent years and is, in essence, a document of church history, a testimony to the state of the Russian Church...

Located at the crossroads of thriving Mediterranean trade for centuries, Sicily has experienced the influence of Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Norman, and Spanish cultures. Under the Norman rule, distinguished by its cultural tolerance, various artistic and architectural influences fused together in what may be one of the most remarkable examples in the entire Mediterranean oikumene...

There is a recognition that does not ask for consent. It happens before you realize that anything could happen. Eros is the name of this touch, from which one can no longer turn away...