Orthodox Peace Fellowship documents

Pro-Life Resources

• Abortion and the Early Church
• The Sacredness of Newborn Life
• The Bitter Price of Choice
• Many Offering Death
• Treehouse: Saving Lives One by One
• True Free Choice
• Zoe Means Life
• On Homicide
• The Troublesome Word “Murder”
• Victims and Heroes
• Changing a Society Which has De-Valued Women and De-Humanized the Unborn
• On Abortion and Over-Population
• Learning to Be Peacemakers
• The Other As Icon
• The Great Human Rights Issue of Our Time
• On Behalf of Unborn Children
• Cleansing By Tears
• We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us

War & Peace Resources

• “For the Peace from Above”: An Orthodox Resource Book on War, Peace and Nationalism

• Nonviolence and Peace Traditions in Early & Eastern Christianity | by Fr John McGuckin
• Iraq War Articles and Essays
• For the Peace from Above: on War, Peace and Nationalism
• Orthodox Christians and Conscientious Objection | by Jim Forest
• In Peace Let Us Pray To The Lord: An Orthodox Christian Approach to Peacemaking | by Jim Forest
• Peace in Orthodox Liturgy and Life | by Fr. Philip LeMasters
• Pro-War is Not Pro-Life | by Metropolitan Jonah
• No Just War in the Fathers | by Fr. Stanley Harakas
• Orthodox Perspectives on Peace, War and Violence | by Fr. Philip LeMasters
• May Christians Kill? | by Fr. Phil LeMasters
• The Pacifist Option | by Fr. Alexander Webster

Capital Punishment

• Capital Punishment: Points to Consider | by Jim Forest
• Blessed are the Meek: Capital Punishment and the Gospel | by Fr. Thomas Mueller
• St Nicholas Halts an Execution | by Jim Forest
• Regarding the Church’s opposition to capital punishment | by Fr. Ted Bobosh
• A bishop’s opposition to capital punishment | by Bishop Seraphim of Ottawa
• The Voice of the Victim | by Fr. Jacques-Jude Lepine
• Doing Justice, Loving Mercy | by Catherine Brockenborough
• Assessing the Death Penalty: Let the Punishment Fit the Time | by Danny Abbott
• Bishop Demetrios Attends Signing of Death Penalty Abolition Bill in Illinois | by Maria A. Karamitsos

The Orthodox Church and Society

• The Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church

Orthodoxy & Ecumenism

• Encyclical of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of 1920
• Report of the III Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference of 1986
• Report of the inter-Orthodox consultation of Orthodox WCC member churches in 1991
• Toronto Statement
• A summary history of Orthodox involvement in the ecumenical movement | by Protobresbyter Georges Tsetsis
• Orthodox complaints are a ‘family disagreement’
• Statement on the Relationship of the Orthodox Church to the World Council of Churches | by the Orthodox Theological Society in America