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Official Discussion Group of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship
More information can be found on incommunion.org
A Fellowship of Orthodox Christian Peacemakers
Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift. (Matthew 5:23-24)
Let us call brothers even those who hate us and forgive all by the Resurrection. (Easter verses, Orthodox Liturgy)
About the Orthodox Peace Fellowship:
From the earliest days of the Church, followers of Jesus have sought to live out Christian faith in its fullness, working to build communities of worship, providing for those lacking the necessities of life, loving not only neighbors but enemies, seeking conversion of adversaries rather than victory over them, and practicing repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation as normal virtues of sacramental life.
This has never been easy. Each generation has had to confront the problem of evil and combat its structures and also has had to suffer the tension that exists between membership in the Church and citizenship in a nation-state.
Often the teachings of Jesus have been dismissed, even by believers, as too idealistic. Yet every generation, even in the era of Hitler and Stalin, has been blessed with heroic witnesses to membership in "an army that sheds no blood," as Clement of Alexandria described the Church ("Soldiers of Peace" in The Protreptikos). (READ MORE on Incommunion.org)
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