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 [...]
Word Magazine May 1967 Page 8 THE CHURCH, VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL Father Vladimir Berzonsky Holy Trinity Church, Parma. Ohio “Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with . . . ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at table. [...]
Again Magazine, Volume 15, Number 3 September 1992 THE BIBLE & THE CHURCH By Raymond L Zell A CONVERSATION WITH A JEHOVAH’S WITNESS Excuse me, could we have a few moments of your time?” Startled, I looked up from the bank-teller machine to see two neatly dressed young men standing at a respectful distance, with [...]