Word Magazine April 1976 Page 16 PASTORAL CONSIDERATIONS ON CURRENT PROBLEMS SEX, NATURAL LAW AND ORTHODOXY By Fr. George Morelli Problem: While on Christmas vacation from college, my daughter told me that one of her professors said that sex outside marriage was not against the “natural law.” In fact, there was no “natural law” — [...]
Word Magazine October 1962 Page 10 OUR PAST AND FUTURE TENDENCY By Father Elias G. Dacy Speaking of the present and contrasting it with the immediate and not too distant past — of religious knowledge and the innumerable changes of aspects, thoughts, activities, etc. in the past ten years or so. There have been no [...]
Word Magazine November 2000 Page 10-12 ORTHODOXY IN THE HOLY LAND AND JORDAN: PROSPECTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY By Dr. Issa J. Boullata We are Orthodox Christians and we love our Orthodox faith. Over the years, there have been many forces that have tried to weaken our faith, to make us abandon it, to tear [...]
Word Magazine June-September 1966 Page 13 ORTHODOXY AND AMERICA Very Rev. Alexander Schmemann Dean, Saint Vladimir Theological Seminary “We may now return to Orthodoxy in America. All that I tried to say, ultimately, amounts to this: we should stop thinking of Orthodoxy in terms of America and begin to think of America in terms of [...]
Orthodoxy - Past Present and Future A talk delivered on Orthodox Sunday In Cleveland, Ohio By The Reverend Fr. Thomas Ruffin INTRODUCTION The topic for the address this evening is "Orthodoxy, Past, Present and Future," in which we will attempt a survey of the various aspects of the Orthodox faith. In such a survey one [...]
Word Magazine November 1994 Page 6 ORTHODOX MUSIC TODAY: INTEGRATING OUR TRADITIONS By Archpriest Vladimir Soroka As we celebrate the Bicentennial of Orthodoxy in North America this year, we face the 21st century with challenges that are unique to our land. We would be less than honest if we didn’t confess that we are a [...]
This article first appeared in the Adbook for the 1996 Midwest Region Parish Life Conference hosted by St. Elias Orthodox Church in Sylvania, OH Orthodox Cooperation on the Local Level: What Unites Us by Fr. Daniel J. Keller When Bishop Demetri asked for my thoughts on Orthodox cooperation on the local level, I immediately recalled [...]
Word Magazine April 1999 Page 23-25 ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY AND THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT “ONE PERSON’S VIEW” By Very Rev. Olof H. Scott ec-u-men-i-cal, adj. 1. general; universal. 2. Pertaining to the whole Christian church. 3. promoting or fostering Christian unity throughout the world. 4. of or pertaining to a movement (e c u m e n [...]
The Word Magazine March 1998 Page 14-15 ONE BODY, ONE LORD BY FR. SAMUEL SEBRING Here in the Southeastern part of the United States those of us within the Holy Orthodox Christian Church find ourselves facing a dilemma that can pose much confusion to the faithful. This situation strikes at the very heart of order [...]
This article first appeared in the Adbook for the 1996 Midwest Region Parish Life Conference hosted by St. Elias Orthodox Church in Sylvania, OH On Unity and Unity of Faith by Archimandrite Nicholas E. Pissare The question of unity of faith in the context of the Christian church is difficult to understand, especially in American [...]