exile

By Ian Olson The season of Epiphany is another phase of the time between the times, inviting the church to remember the revealing of the...

The external witness of vowed religious — habits, cloister, the Opus Dei (the daily round of psalms, hymns, and collects recited in chapel) — are the first things Christians notice about the monastics among them. But, of course, that is not the whole story of the charism and fruit of the religious life

The real struggle in the next generation will be to understand ourselves, as the people of God and not just conglomerations of individuals, in the light of our exilic condition. It will be the underlying test for Anglicans in the Global North. How do we come to understand ourselves as a people with a different narrative, as a people against culture’s grain, beyond the immediate political answers we might give?

Two books illuminate the ecclesiastical and theological environment in which Russian Orthodox Christians began their long 20th century.

Serving as a rector in the increasingly secular Northeast, I often feel like I am working in an unstable religious context.

Diaspora is not an image of the Church. It is, rather, a historical descriptor of the Church at a given time.

Aid to the Church in Need and other agencies help exiled Christians return and rebuild their homes.