DEFENDING HUMAN DIGNITY A RESPONSE TO THE PRE-CONCILIAR DOCUMENT, “THE MISSION OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN TODAY’S WORLD”

 by Fr. Robert M. Arida, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, David Dunn, Maria McDowell, Teva Regule, and  Bryce E. Rich

The authors of ‘The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World’ are to be commended for framing our shared ecclesial mission as one of making present the eschatological hope of the new creation in which “race, gender, age, social, or any other condition” are no bar to shared eucharistic celebration.

LIFE-BEARING LOVE:A TOO RISKY VISION

 by  Maria McDowell

Public Orthodoxy

The upcoming Great Council, decades in the making, is an opportunity for Orthodoxy to present to the world a vision of the fruitfulness of love ripened through relationships in which we are simultaneously co-workers in one another’s deification and co-workers with God through whom all creation bears life.