Word Magazine April 1990 Page 20/21 THE MISSION OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA By Jacqueline Walker Midwest Oratorical Winner All of us and every human endeavor must have a sense of purpose or mission in order to be successful in life. I work at a children’s museum, and my work consists of taking [...]
Word Magazine December 1968 Page 14-15 THE MATURE CHRISTIAN By The Late Father Michael Baroudy, Vicksburg, Mississippi A person who wishes to attain and achieve success in life must consider that life is a struggle, a race, a competition every day. And if one hopes to attain any appreciable height financially, socially or religiously, he [...]
Word Magazine December 1978 Page 5-8/28 THE INCARNATION AND VOCATIONAL HUMANITY By George Benjamin Gapen Life exists by right only within that Perfect Society of perfect and mutual love which is the Holy Consubstantial Trinity. Through His Will and act, all that is, became. Man is the culmination of material creation being endowed not only [...]
This article first appeared in the Adbook for the 1996 Midwest Region Parish Life Conference hosted by St. Elias Orthodox Church in Sylvania, OH The Icon of Unity by Nicholas P. Papas The icon of Christ as the true vine is a wonderful image of church unity. In it, the Church gives yet another teaching [...]
Word Magazine January 1987 Page 7-8 THE HOMOSEXUAL CHRISTIAN by Father Thomas Hopko Many gay men and lesbians claim that the Christian faith is the guiding rule of their lives. Some of them hold that their sexual orientation is given by God, that it is good, and that there is nothing wrong or sinful with [...]
Word Magazine February 1969 Page 11-12 THE GATHERING By: Fr. Joseph J. Allen, St. Anthony’s Church, Bergenfield, New Jersey After returning from the 23rd annual convention held in the “new” steel city of Pittsburgh, I sat back and tried to contemplate the spiritual benefits that our people received from the regular services in which they [...]
Word Magazine October 1959 Page 8-11 THE FORGOTTEN COMMANDMENT By Anastasios Yannoulatos Committee on General Secretary, Orthodox Missions The subject of Orthodox external missions is not, of course, touched here for the first time. Quite often, during the last decades, it was made the subject of informal discussions which, with very few exceptions,1 consisted of [...]
Word Magazine September 1968 Page 22 THE FAITHFUL ARE ONLY THOSE WHO BELIEVE By Rev. Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church, Parma, Ohio “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ ” (PSALM 11-: 1) A renowned religious scholar, Rudolf Otto, gave the world a classic work on the theme of holiness. In the [...]
Again Magazine Volume 20 Number 4 Winter 1997/1998 Page 24-26 THE FAILURE OF FUNDAMENTALISM By Clark Carlton Why Fundamentalism Has Failed to Stem the Tide of Liberalism in American Christianity Few words in the English language carry such negative connotations as fundamentalism. To most people, the term is equivalent to obscurantism, ignorance, and just plain [...]
Word Magazine December 1979 Page 7-8 THE DREAM OF PEACE by athanasios bitar “~ Hope for peace is the dream of every person. be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27). Today, more than ever before this yearning is Jesus praised those who make peace, not those mounting in the hearts and minds of [...]