- Just War vs. Necessary War: Was Ivan Ilyin Right or a Fanatic?
By Priest Paul Siewers, Ph.D.Bucknell University O Lord save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance; Grant victory to the Kings over the Barbarians, and by the virtue of Thy Cross preserve Thy Commonwealth. That early version of the familiar Troparion to the Cross expresses an Orthodox Christian view of symphonia between Church and State. This Read More … - Passions as Essential: The “Fordhamite” Project to Americanize Orthodoxy
By Priest Paul Siewers, Ph.D.Bucknell University Our golden arches do not represent our most troubling impact on other cultures; rather, it is how we are flattening the landscape of the human psyche itself. We are engaged in the grand project of Americanizing the world’s understanding of the human mind…. [I]n other places in the world, Read More … - Sobornost and ‘Sympathetic Comprehension’: St. Maria of Paris, Anna Julia Cooper, and Christ’s Second Love Command
By Rico Vitz, Ph.D., Azusa Pacific University The depth of beauty is often concealed by the elegance with which it presents itself. This is true both of natural beauty and of moral beauty. It is also true of the spiritual beauty of Christ’s second love command: that is, the call to love one’s Read More … - The 50th Anniversary of Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future. From “It’s a Small World” to the “Synagogue of Satan”: The Role of American Civil Religion in Global Apostasy
By Priest Paul Siewers, Ph.D.Bucknell University A recent book on former U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles displays an epic cover photo of him striding across an airport tarmac toward a plane, confidently bound for some diplomatic or covert mission against Communism, clad in a homburg hat and long coat, his uniform as a Read More …