Category: Orthodoxy in America
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Open Letter to the Synod of the Orthodox Church in America on the War in Ukraine
by Archpriest Denis J. M. Bradley His Beatitude, Metropolitan TikhonMembers of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America Dear Archpastors: We[1] write as painfully concerned, truth–seeking, and truth–committed Orthodox Christians: we are chagrined clergy and lay members of the Orthodox Church in America, who as American citizens value religious and political freedom. Conscience […]
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The Liturgical Consent to War
by A. Edward Siecienski In a famous scene from A Man for All Seasons, Thomas More defended his silence on the Act of Supremacy by citing a maxim of the law, “Qui tacet consentire videtur” (Silence betokens consent). His argument was that by saying nothing, the court must assume he agreed with the Act regardless […]
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Blessed are the Peacemakers: Thinking Historically About Russian Orthodox Soft Diplomacy
by Aram G. Sarkisian If you stand before the iconostasis of St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Manhattan, the representation church of the Moscow Patriarchate to the Orthodox Church in America, you will see an old and ornate cross perched behind the altar table. First placed there nearly 120 years ago, it is an artifact […]
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What Happens When Scholars of Orthodoxy Write about White Christian Nationalism
by Aram G. Sarkisian In December of last year, I wrote for Public Orthodoxy on the Philip Ludwell III Orthodox Fellowship, an effort that uses myth of the Lost Cause to evangelize the American South. Responses to my piece were robust and diverse. I enjoyed learning from many of the readers who engaged with my […]
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Orthodox America Has a Lost Cause Problem
by Aram G. Sarkisian For more than a decade, researchers have excavated the fascinating story of Philip Ludwell III, an Anglo-American convert to Orthodox Christianity who lived in colonial Virginia during the mid- to late-eighteenth century. A friend to Benjamin Franklin, cousin to Martha Washington, and a member of one of Virginia’s most established and […]
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Η ΙΕΡΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΙΚΗ ΜΑΣ ΜΑΡΤΥΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΜΕΡΙΚΗ
Πρωτοπρεσβύτερος Λεονίντ Κισκόφσκι (Leonid Kishkovsky) Ο π. Λεονίντ προετοίμαζε μια αναθεωρημένη εκδοχή της εισήγησής του εδώ και μήνες πριν απ’ την κοίμησή του με σκοπό να τη δημοσιεύσει στο ιστολόγιο Δημόσια Ορθοδοξία. Καθώς δεν μπόρεσε να την ολοκληρώσει, λάβαμε την άδεια της οικογένειάς του να δημοσιεύσουμε εδώ όλη την εισαγωγική του ομιλία στο Παναμερικανικό Συνέδριο […]
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Our Mission and Voice and Presence in America
by Protopresbyter Leonid Kishkovsky | български | ελληνικά | Русский | Српски In the months before Fr. Leonid’s passing, he was working on a revised version of the following address to publish on Public Orthodoxy. As he was unable to complete it, with his family’s blessing, we are posting the entirety of the keynote address he […]
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Patriarch with Two Homelands
by Slavica Jakelić | български | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски On February 18th, the Serbian Orthodox Church elected its new patriarch—59-year old Porfirije Perić. The new Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovac and Patriarch of Serbia, is a theologian who served for a year as the bishop of […]
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Ο ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ ΜΕ ΤΙΣ ΔΥΟ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΕΣ
Από την Σλαβίτσα Γιάκελιτς (Slavica Jakelić) Στις 18 Φεβρουαρίου η Σερβική Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία εξέλεξε ως νέο της πατριάρχη τον 59χρονο Πορφύριο Πέριτς, Ο νέος Αρχιεπίσκοπος Πεκίου, Μητροπολίτης Καρλοβικίου και Πατριάρχης των Σέρβων είναι θεολόγος, ο οποίος υπηρέτησε για ένα χρόνο ως επίσκοπος του Σερβικού στρατού, εκπροσώπησε τις σερβικές θρησκευτικές κοινότητες στο Εθνικό Συμβούλιο Ραδιοτηλεόρασης και […]
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Folklife and the Authenticity Politics of Orthodox Culture Creation
by Nic Hartmann | български | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски Orthodox culture is alive and well. It is in the loaves of bread that are lovingly made by a Lebanese grandmother for her son’s birthday. It is in our Pascha baskets, our children’s hilarious mispronunciations of “Christ is Risen” in […]