Ephraim Radner on the Last Lambeth Conference
by R. R. RenoEphraim Radner joins R. R. Reno to talk about his article in the October 2022 issue, “The Last Lambeth Conference.” Continue Reading »
On the Ukrainian Border
by Cole S. Aronson“I doubt if we ever come back home,” says Helen, who until recently taught English to second- and third-graders in Mykolaiv, a southern Ukrainian city of several hundred thousand. “Putin wants Mykolaiv,” Helen says. A large majority of Mykolaiv residents speak Russian at home. The . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pope and the Patriarch of Moscow
by George WeigelA meeting between the current Bishop of Rome and the current Patriarch of Moscow would not have been a meeting of two religious leaders. It would have been a meeting between a religious leader and an instrument of Russian state power. Continue Reading »
Needed: An Ecumenical Reset
by George WeigelThe Vatican must inform Patriarch Kirill that the Holy See’s ecumenical contacts with Russian Orthodoxy are suspended until Kirill condemns the invasion of Ukraine. Continue Reading »
Make America Good Again
by Ari LammElections in future are likely to revolve around the struggle between two conflicting worldviews. Continue Reading »
Demon of Disunity
by Hans BoersmaPrayer gives us entry into the eschaton, where we see the eternal glory of the Son of God. Continue Reading »
From Crete to Romania
by Nicholas DenysenkoIn Iași, Romania, in January 2019, some three hundred Orthodox scholars gathered for the inaugural conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA). Pioneered by IOTA’s president, Paul Gavrilyuk, the gathering overcame forces that have prevented intra-Orthodox dialogue . . . . Continue Reading »
Ecumenical Winter?
by Michael RootIn 1870, during a plenary session of the First Vatican Council, the Croatian bishop Josip Strossmayer complained that the introduction to what would become the Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith contained an unnecessary and false claim that modern unbelief could be traced to Protestantism. . . . . Continue Reading »
No Salvation Without the Other
by Wesley HillWe are all of us together suffering the consequences of Christian sin, so that we may all of us together receive mercy.
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Heal Our Wounds
by Patricia SnowSix months after he was elected to the Chair of Peter, Pope Francis made one of the most provocative statements of his five-year pontificate. Asked by the Italian Jesuit Antonio Spadaro what the church (small c) most needs at this point in her history, he replied that he sees the church as a field . . . . Continue Reading »
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