Series: OTSA Special Project on the Holy and Great Council
Series: Papers from the 2015 “Conference in Preparation for the Great and Holy Council”
10/11/2018 “The Vale of Abraham,” by David Bentley Hart
10/09/2018 “Can Tug-of-War Lead to Unity: The Future of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine,” by Ines Angeli Murzaku
10/05/2018 “The Problem with the Kosovo ‘Solution,'” by Fr. Sava Janjic
10/02/2018 “How to Be the Right Kind of Fundamentalist,” by Davor Džalto
09/25/2018 “Reconceiving Healthcare: Philanthropia and the Vocations of Healing,” by Chris Durante
09/22/2018 “It’s Time for an Independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church,” by Evagelos Sotiropoulos
09/19/2018 “The Heresy of Papism,” by George Demacopoulos
09/17/2018 “Studying Byzantine Cappadocia,” by Elizabeth Zanghi
09/11/2018 “Non-Fundamentalist Monastic Spirituality of Mother Maria Skobtsova,” Kateřina Kočandrle Bauer
09/07/2018 “The Kremlin Hacks the Patriarchate: Is the Church under Surveillance?” by Evangelos Razis
09/04/2018 “Can Saints Be Wrong? A Palamite Perspective,” by Ivana Noble
08/31/2018 “The Church in Modern Ukraine: Information Literacy and the Narrative,” by Nicholas Denysenko
08/27/2018 “Modernity, Murder, and Coptic Identity,” by Candace Lukasik
08/23/2018 “Clericalism and the Sexual Abuse Crisis,” by Matthew Briel
08/21/2018 “Pope Francis’s Challenge to All Christians: End the Death Penalty,” by Jim Forest
08/17/2018 “An Open Letter to Paul Griffiths on Leisure and the Christian Life,” by David Bentley Hart
07/13/2018 “Internet Orthodoxy: Opportunities and Pastoral Challenges,” by Richard Barrett
07/10/2018 “Russia and Ukraine: The Empire’s New Old Clothes,” by Fr. Bohdan Hladio
07/06/2018 “‘For You Were Aliens in the Land of Egypt’: Why Orthodox Christians Cannot Remain Silent on United States Immigration Policies,” by Aram G. Sarkisian
07/03/2018 “Fundamentalism as ‘Orthodoxism,'” by Haralambos Ventis
06/29/2018 “‘Towards a Greener Attica’: On the Occasion of an Ecological Symposium Hosted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate,” by Nikolaos Asproulis
06/26/2018 “Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Encounters: Cultural Exchange or Real Ecumenism?” by Alexander B. Miller
06/21/2018 “Is Christian Theology Possible Without the Fall?” by Paul Ladouceur
06/18/2018 “(Review) ‘The Wheel’ Issue 13/14: Being Human: Embodiment, Sex and Marriage, Pastoral Challenges,” by Luis Salés
06/12/2018 “Grief is the Funny Thing,” by Gregory J. Abdalah
06/08/2018 “Torture Is Iconoclasm,” by Matthew Cooper
06/05/2018 “Must Orthodoxy Be a Barrier to Liberal Democracy? The Case of Serbia 1903-1914,” by Boris Begović
05/30/2018 “Fundamentalism: Theology in the Service of Psychosis,” by Rev. Dr. Vaseilios Thermos
05/24/2018 “American Evangelicals, Theological Fantasy, and the Jerusalem Embassy,” by David P. Gushee
05/21/2018 “Headscarves, Modern Orthodoxy, and Telling Women What To Do,” by Nadieszda Kizenko
05/17/2018 “Headscarves, Modesty, and Modern Orthodoxy,” by Katherine Kelaidis
05/10/2018 “Too Little, Too Late for Religious Freedom in Greece?” by Effie Fokas
05/07/2018 “Episcopacy and Hierarchy: Obverse and Reverse of the Same Coin,” by Mark Arey
05/03/2018 “Chrétiens d’Orient, 2000 Ans d’Histoire: A Major Exhibit in France,” by Michael Peppard
04/30/2018 “Orthodoxy, Capitalism, and ‘the West’: Is Orthodox Christianity Stuck in the Past?” by Nathaniel Wood
04/27/2018 “The Kavasilas Option,” by Fr. Micah Hirshy
04/24/2018 “The Promise of Autocephaly in Ukraine: What’s at Stake?” by Nicholas Denysenko
04/20/2018 “St. Kassiani, Sex Workers, and FOSTA-SESTA,” by Katherine Kelaidis
04/17/2018 “Towards a Reasoned and Respectful Conversation about Deaconesses,” by the Board of the St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess
04/11/2018 “Joy Reconsidered,” by George N. Petrovich
03/26/2018 “The Byzantine Origins of Gun Control,” by George Demacopoulos
03/20/2018 “Why the Incarnation is Rational,” by Aristotle Papanikolaou
03/12/2018 “Our Neoliberal Orthodoxy,” by Davor Džalto
03/06/2018 “Women’s Gifts and the Diaconate,” by Carrie Frederick Frost
02/27/2018 “A New Step Towards Pan-Orthodox Unity: The International Orthodox Theological Association,” by Alison Kolosova
02/23/2018 “Deaconesses and the Camel’s Nose,” by Paul Ladouceur
02/17/2018 “The True Meaning of Fasting in the Orthodox Church,” by Philip Kariatlis
02/15/2018 “Dialogue, Church Teaching, and the German Orthodox Bishops’ Letter on Love, Sexuality, and Marriage,” by Will Cohen
02/13/2018 “The Crisis of Orthodox Multilateralism,” by Nicolas Kazarian
02/09/2018 “The Systematic Persecution of Religious Minorities in Turkey,” by The Hon. Theodore Bozonelis
02/01/2018 “The Ecumenism of the Pro-Life Movement,” by Fr. James Martin
01/29/2018 “How Russia’s Information Warfare Targets the Church of Constantinople,” by Evagelos Sotiropoulos
01/18/2018 “Racism: An Orthodox Perspective,” by Aristotle Papanikolaou
01/15/2018 “African American Orthodox Christians,” by Lydia Kemi Ingram
01/12/2018 “It’s Time to Merge St. Vladimir’s and Holy Cross,” by George Demacopoulos
01/09/2018 “Women for the Church: Chanters, Readers, and Their Sanctioned Roles,” by Donna Rizk Asdourian
01/04/2018 “The Problem with Gendering Epiphany Celebrations,” by Joanna Theophilopoulos
12/22/2017 “Western Intervention and Mideast Christians: Lessons from the Nineteenth Century,” by Mark L. Movsesian
12/19/2017 “#MeToo: The Why Behind the Taming of the Passions,” by Fr. Barnabas Powell
12/15/2017 “Are Christians Supposed to Be Communists?” by David Bentley Hart
12/12/2017 “Reading Scripture,” by Fr. John Behr
12/08/2017 “Theology in a ‘Post-Truth’ Landscape,” by Jack Louis Pappas
12/06/2017 “A Dialogue on the Mission of the St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess,” by Rev. Protodeacon Peter Danilchick and the Board of the St. Phoebe Center
12/01/2017 “A Renewed Diaconate Completes the Church,” by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis
11/28/2017 “Bishops and Synods: Testing the Spirits,” by Rev. Dr. Nicholas Denysenko
11/22/2017 “Two Views on the Female Diaconate,” by Rev. Protodeacon Brian Patrick Mitchell and Valerie A. Karras
11/17/2017 “The Revival of the Order of Deaconess by the Patriarchate of Alexandria,” by Petros Vassiliadis
11/14/2017 “The President’s Men and the Emperor’s Clothes,” by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis
11/11/2017 “China’s Peaceful Warrior,” by Matthew Cooper
11/07/2017 “The Golden Age of Ligonier and Other Myths of Orthodox Unity in America,” by Mark Arey
11/03/2017 “Beyond the Binary: Hymnographic Constructions of Orthodox Gender,” by Ashley Purpura
11/01/2017 “Can Orthodox Support Human Rights? The Divine Image, the Person, and Human Rights,” by Paul Ladouceur
10/28/2017 “My Gay Orthodox Friend’s Suicide,” by Katherine Kelaidis
10/25/2017 “Does the Filioque Undermine Theosis? An Augustinian Perspective,” by Christopher Iacovetti
10/20/2017 “Theology as Science in Russia and the German Model,” by Anna Briskina-Müller
10/17/2017 “Aerial Toll Houses, Provisional Judgment, and the Orthodox Faith,” by Stephen J. Shoemaker
10/13/2017 “International Day of Peace 2017: Conflicts and Threats Beyond the Left and the Right,” by Davor Džalto
10/10/2017 “Evolution and Science Curriculum Debates in Serbia,” by Gayle Woloschak and Tatjana Paunesku
10/06/2017 “The Russian ‘Matilda’ Controversy and the Politics of Religious Feelings,” by Kristina Stoeckl
10/03/2017 “Liberating Ecumenism: Considering the Charismatic and Counter-Hegemonic Contribution of Orthodox Ecclesiology,” by Graham McGeoch
09/29/2017 “Ecological Economics as Care for Creation,” by Chris Durante
09/27/2017 “What’s Missing from the Pope and Patriarch’s Statement on Climate Change,” by Dylan Pahman
09/22/2017 “Post-Truth,” by Cyril Hovorun
09/19/2017 “Issues for a Theology of Marriage,” by David J. Dunn
09/15/2017 “American Orthodoxy,” by Richard Barrett
09/08/2017 “Ephesians 5:20-33 as the Epistle Reading for the Rite of Marriage: Appropriate or Problematic?” by Rev. Dr. Alkiviadis Calivas and Rev. Dr. Philip Zymaris
09/02/2017 “Common Senses: Climate Change, Human Responsibility, and Collective Action in the Shared Words of Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew,” by Christiana Zenner Peppard
08/30/2017 “Korea: Facing Another Threat…,” by Perry T. Hamalis
08/25/2017 “John the Baptist and Capital Punishment,” by Keven Beck
08/22/2017 “The Holy Trinity and Same-Sex Marriage,” by Bradley Nassif
08/16/2017 “Deafening Silence,” by Inga Leonova
08/15/2017 “Two Blocks from the Culture War,” by William Antholis
08/14/2017 “Rescuing Syriac Manuscripts in Iraq,” by Amir Harrak
08/04/2017 “Transfigurating Practices,” by Aristotle Papanikolaou
06/28/2017 “The Benedict of History versus the Benedict Option,” by George Demacopoulos
06/23/2017 Youth Submission: “What Is Our Political Time?” by Stefan Kleinhenz
06/19/2017 “Women and the Creed: ‘For Us Humans and for Our Salvation,” by John Fotopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou
06/08/2017 “Science, Truth, and the Current Political Climate,” by Gayle E. Woloschak, Tatjana Paunesku, and Katarina Trajkovic
06/06/2017 “Human Beings or Human Persons?” by Paul Ladouceur
06/01/2017 “Submission, Sexism, and Head Coverings,” by Mark Arey
05/30/2017 “Political Polarization and Christian Unity,” by Will Cohen
05/25/2017 “Between Rigorism and Relativism: The Givenness of Tradition,” by Marcus Plested
05/22/2017 “The Complexity and Duplicity of Deciphering the New Ukrainian Law on Religion,” by Anatoliy Babynskyi
05/20/2017 “The Power of Sexual Purity: An Orthodox Response to the Sexual Revolution of Our Time,” by David C. Ford and Mary Ford
05/17/2017 “Orthodox Christianity: Offering Material Piety to Twenty-First Century America,” by Carrie Frederick Frost
05/15/2017 “On Religious Freedom, Is Russia the Next Saudi Arabia?” by Hannah Gais
05/11/2017 “The Promise behind The Promise,” by Christopher H. Zakian
05/08/2017 “For God’s Sake, Hands Off!” by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis
05/05/2017 “Pope Francis in Egypt: Why Ecumenism is Necessary,” by Massimo Faggioli
05/02/2017 “Conjugal Friendship,” by Giacomo Sanfilippo
04/30/2017 “Religions and Peace,” by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
04/26/2017 “Childbirth is a Blessing, Not an Occasion of Impurity,” by Carrie Frederick Frost
04/24/2017 “The Holy and Great Council: Separating Fact from Fiction,” by Evagelos Sotiropoulos
04/20/2017 “ROCOR Commentary on the February Revolution: Blame the West and Link Putin to the Tsars,” by Lena Zezulin
04/06/2017 “It’s that Time of the Year Again: In Tone Four, ‘The Murderers of God, the Lawless Nation of the Jews…'” by Bogdan G. Bucur
04/03/2017 “On Ecumenoclasm: Salvation for Non-Christians?” by Paul Ladouceur
03/30/2017 “The Russian Church: Profiting by Silence,” by Sergei Chapnin
03/27/2017 “A Time for U.S.-Russian Repentance?” by John Burgess
03/23/2017 “Orthodoxy, African Deaconesses, and Missed Opportunities,” by Kerry San Chirico
03/20/2017 “Salvation and the ‘Pursuit of Happiness,'” by Paul Gavrilyuk
03/16/2017 “My Silent Church,” by Katherine Kelaidis
03/14/2017 “Orthodox Social Though: A Primer,” by Nicholas Sooy
03/09/2017 “Names Matter: An Argument for ‘Orthodox Christianity’,” by Zachary Ugolnik
03/07/2017 “Shared Ministry and Divine Grace: Restoring the Diaconate in Orthodoxy,” by Rev. Dr. Nicholas Denysenko
03/02/2017 “Women Deacons in Africa; Not in America,” by Carrie Frederick Frost
02/27/2017 “Is the Russian Orthodox Church Pushing Battered Women into Feminism?” by Lena Zezulin
02/21/2017 “Civicness and Orthodoxy in Romanian Protests,” by Lucian Turcescu
02/16/2017 “‘Taking Orthodoxy to America’ – Thirty Years Later,” by Fr. Marc Dunaway
02/13/2017 “‘Beat her when you are along together’: Domestic Violence in the Russian Tradition, Past and Present,” by Nadieszda Kizenko
02/08/2017 “Speak Up for the Trees,” by Crina Gschwandtner
02/02/2017 “Pro-Life Means Pro-Social Justice,” by Fr. James Martin, SJ
01/30/2017 “Should Middle East Religious-Minority Refugees Be Prioritized?” by Samuel Tadros
01/27/2017 “Torture is a Crime — and a Moral Outrage,” by George Hunsinger
01/19/2017 “Orthodoxy and Race in Light of Trump’s Inauguration,” by Georgia Kasamias
01/16/2017 “Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement,” by Albert J. Raboteau
01/09/2017 “Why is the Church Silent about Anti-LGBT+ Violence in Russia?” by Katherine Kelaidis
12/17/2016 “The Politics of Pascha,” by Fr. Aidan Kimel
12/14/2016 “The Predicament of Egypt’s Copts,” by Michael Wahid Hanna
12/12/2016 “Is it Time to Relinquish Liturgical Greek?” by George Demacopoulos
12/09/2016 “Repentance and Healing,” by Samuel Bauer
12/06/2016 “On Behalf of Thinking,” by Crina Gschwandtner
12/02/2016 “The European Union, Russia, Religion, and Fear,” by Kristina Stoeckl
11/28/2016 “The Disarray and Hope of Our Post-Election Abortion Politics,” by Charles C. Camosy
11/24/2016 “Politics by Candlelight: Contemplating Political Catharsis and Illumination,” by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis
11/21/2016 “The Challenge of the Other,” by Inga Leonova
11/17/2016 “New Testament Codex 1424 Returned to the Care of the Ecumenical Patriarchate,” by John Fotopoulos
11/11/2016 “Being Christian During a Trump Presidency,” by Aristotle Papanikolaou
11/09/2016 “Healing the Body Politic: A Politics of Communion,” by Fr. John A. Jillions
11/02/2016 “Bishops in Council: Are They Represpentative?” by Peter Bouteneff
10/28/2016 “Taking Women Seriously,” by David J. Dunn
10/25/2016 “After the Yarovaya Laws: The Russian Orthodox Church and the ‘Traditional Values’ International at a Crossroads,” by Christopher Stroop
10/21/2016 “Issues Addressed and Issues Neglected: Official Orthodox-Catholic Relations,” by Thomas Bremer
10/18/2016 “The First Test for Orthodox Unity After the Holy and Great Council: The Chieti Document,” by Rev. Dr. Nicolas Kazarian
10/13/2016 “Why ‘Nones’ Are Leaving the Church,” by Michael Peppard
10/05/2016 “A Growing Rift Between Egypt’s Christians and Their Leaders Spells Trouble,” by Sarah E. Yerkes
09/28/2016 “Toward a Multicultural Symphonia: Orthodox Solidarity in an Age of Diversity,” by Chris Durante
09/21/2016 “Anarchism and Orthodoxy,” by Davor Džalto
09/15/2016 “Putin’s Unorthodox Orthodoxy,” by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George Demacopoulos
09/13/2016 “On Ecumenoclasm: Let Us Pray?” by Paul Ladouceur
09/09/2016 “Orthodox Theology and Economic Morality,” by Dylan Pahman
09/06/2016 “Orthodox Christian Rigorism: A Multifaceted Phenomenon,” by Vasilios N. Makrides
08/02/2016 “Person, Nature, and Personhood Theology,” by Doru Costache
07/13/2016 “On Ecumenoclasm: Who Is a Heretic?” by Paul Ladouceur
07/08/2016 “Challenges for Restoring the Byzantine Female Diaconate in Present Times,” by Ashley Purpura
07/05/2016 “Pope Francis’s Visit to Armenia: A Bridge Out of Isolation,” by Yelena Ambartsumian
07/01/2016 “The Fruit of the Holy and Great Council,” by Alberto Melloni
06/29/2016 “Brexit and the Great and Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church: The Return of Nationalism,” by Lucian N. Leustean
06/23/2016 “War and Peace in Today’s World,” by Nicholas Sooy
06/20/2016 “The Appeal of the Ukrainian Parliament and the Ecumenical Patriarchate,” by Rev. Dr. Nicholas Denysenko
06/18/2016 “The Paradox of Unanimity: The Holy and Great Council,” by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, with Gayle Woloschak
06/17/2016 “The Synaxis of Primates: A Prelude to Conciliarity and Unity,” by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, with Rev. Dr. Alexander Rentel
06/09/2016 “Some Reflections on the Approaching Great and Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church,” by Rev. Dr. Andrew Louth
06/05/2016 “On Ecumenoclasm: What Is Church?” by Paul Ladouceur
05/31/2016 “Ten Days, Fourteen Delegations: Some Thoughts on the Format of the Upcoming Pan-Orthodox Council,” by Andrey Shishkov
05/12/2016 “Some Notes on the Byzantine Practice of (Re)Baptizing Latins,” by Nicolas Kamas
04/25/2016 “Some Common Misperceptions about the Date of Pascha/Easter,” by John Fotopoulos
04/16/2016 “When the Pope and Patriarchs Go Island Hopping: Cuba, Lesbos, and Crete,” by Paul Gavrilyuk
04/08/2016 “‘Re-Christianizing’ Russia, by John Burgess
03/29/2016 “Orthodox Reformation,” by Nicolas Kazarian
03/07/2016 “Trump and Humiliation,” by Will Cohen
02/29/2016 “Ownership by All, Control by None,” by Charles Ajalat
02/19/2016 “Phyletism and the Case for Ukrainian Autocephaly,” by Nicholas Denysenko
02/11/2016 “The Great and Holy Council and the Ukrainian Problem,” by Nicholas Denysenko
02/06/2016 “Why Did Patriarch Kirill of Moscow Agree to Meet with Pope Francis? A Primer on the Byzantine Politics of the Russian Orthodox Church,” by Paul Gavrilyuk
02/02/2016 “By What Authority? Conciliar Authority in the Church,” by Gregory Tucker
01/29/2016 “The Great Synod of the Orthodox Church and Christian Unity: Another View,” by Athanasios Giocas
01/21/2016 “Can Anything Good Come out of a Pan-Orthodox Council? A Response to Detractors,” by Paul Gavrilyuk
01/18/2016 “Archbishop Iakovos, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Challenge of Selma,” by Andrew Estocin
01/11/2016 “Trump and Transgression,” by Will Cohen
01/06/2016 “New Orthodox Geopolitics,” by Nicolas Kazarian
12/18/2015 “What Orthodox Christianity Can Bring to American Christian Politics,” by George Demacopoulos