Orthodox Christians are called to take good care of God’s earth. This is the message of Scripture, the saints, and perhaps most eloquently the Patriarchs...
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Joint Declaration of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis on the Environment
The May 25 meeting between the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Pope involved a declaration by the two leaders that addressed various aspects of problems facing...
Statement on the Environment by the Russian Orthodox Church
The document was adopted by the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, February 4, 2013. (Since the original document is in Russian, an English...
Christ is baptized in the Jordan!
We are now in the time of Theophany for those Orthodox Christians who celebrate on the new (Julian) calendar (and a blessed Nativity to those...
Day for the Protection of our Natural Environment
September 1, 2012 Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year Day for the Protection of our Natural Environment To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests...
Seeds of Resurrection
By Fr. Konstantinos Sarantidis (Originally given as Pascha message in 2006 at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Portland, Maine) One of the most hallowed and beloved...
4th of July Reflection: Holy Kingship and Ecology
[cmsms_row][cmsms_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsms_text] By Alfred Kentigern Siewers At Camp Karoondinha (a Delaware term for “Land of Shining Waters”) on the wooded banks of Penns Creek, at...
The Agape Vespers Gospel and the “Language” of Creation
By Dr. Alfred Kentigern Siewers On Pascha Sunday, Orthodox Christians around the world hear the gospel of the empty tomb (John 20:19-25) read in many...
The Icon for Orthodoxy’s major “green” feast
By Alfred Kentigern Siewers, OFT web editor Often the Feast of Theophany is rightly celebrated as a Feast of the Church with special significance for...
“We do not have to live as if we are alone.”
[cmsms_row][cmsms_column data_width=”1/1″][cmsms_text] Monday night, the Protestant Christian writer, conservation activist, and farmer Wendell Berry delivered the prestigious 43rd Jefferson Lecture on the Humanities in Washington...