Trauma rarely brings forth the renewal of an institution’s vocation. Rather, it often hardens the executives and leadership into a stance characterized by formalism and fear. Not surprising.
Institutional leadership is responsible for insuring that all those who work within its frame are able to do so with relative confidence. Scandal brings trauma rather quickly in [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 12, 2008
12 November
November 12, 2008
St. Tikhon of Moscow’s Recommendations for Church Reform
Submitted to the Holy Synod of the Church of Russia in 1905,
in Preparation for the Great Council of Moscow
Eventually held in 1917-1918
English translation from the Russian by Alex Maximov,
with editing by Dr. David C. Ford
St. Tikhon’s Seminary and Monastery Church
S. Canaan, PA
This translation is of the text as it appears in the Russian-American Messenger.
Opinions on the [...]
November 12, 2008
St. Tikhon of Moscow’s Last Sermon
During His Years of Ministry as the Archbishop of the American Missionary Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (1898 to 1907)
Given on the Sunday of Orthodoxy (the First Sunday of Great Lent) in 1907
English translation from the Russian by Alex Maximov,
with editing by Dr. David C. Ford
St. Tikhon’s Seminary and Monastery Church
S. Canaan, PA
This translation is of [...]
November 12, 2008
Two considerations
We are in a grave but modest moment in the life of our treasured church. Grave but modest and this is driven home to me as I remember.
In 1999 I visited Nike (Nicea). It was the past coming to meet me from the future. When I was 12 our pastor, recognizing my interest in theology [...]
