Assembly of Canonical Orthodox BishopsMay 23rd, 2007 The following statement, “Global Climate Change: A Moral and Spiritual Challenge,” was adopted by the Standing Conference of...
Archive for category: Reflections
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...
Compost as an Icon of the Resurrection
By Heather Zydek If we look carefully enough, we can see God all around us. Of course, it’s easy to see God in the beautiful:...
Bees, Pesticides, and Orthodox Iconography
The decimation of honeybee populations in North America is in the news again in recent days, with further evidence of a likely link between their...
Thoughts on Noah and the Rules of Gardening
By Alfred Kentigern Siewers* God’s convenant in the aftermath of the flood, not to overwhelm the earth again, is taken in some Protestant fundamentalist readings...
Orthodoxy, Hierarchy, Ecology: A Reflection
By Alfred Kentigern Siewers* It’s often assumed that, because Orthodox Christianity is a traditional faith, it must be conservative in a current American political sense,...
Apatheia and Climate Change
Apatheia and Climate Change By Alfred Kentigern Siewers Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in his message to the conference on climate change in Durban, South Africa in November,...